Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR (Flash)
Speech and audio
qwen-audio-3.1-asr-flash-streaming
Price not published
Qwen3-ASR (0.6B / 1.7B) + Qwen3-ForcedAligner
Apache-2.0 speech recognition models for self-hosting.
Model idQwen/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B
PricePrice not published
Checked29 September 2026
Where it stands
69newer speech and audio models since its release
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B)28 Oct 2026
- Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B22 Oct 2026
- Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini20 Oct 2026
- Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3)20 Oct 2026
- Voxtral Small Transcribe 320 Oct 2026
The 5 newest are listed. All speech and audio models
- Before it from Alibaba
- Qwen3-TTS (open weights 0.6B / 1.7B; API qwen3-tts-flash)22 Jan 2026
- After it from Alibaba
- Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate (Flash Realtime)19 Sep 2026
- Weights
- Weights are public under a permissive licence (Apache-2.0).
How to call it
4 ways to use Qwen3-ASR (0.6B / 1.7B) + Qwen3-ForcedAligner, with the model id each provider expects.
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face | Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B |
huggingface.co | |
| Hugging Face | Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B |
huggingface.co | |
| Hugging Face | Qwen/Qwen3-ForcedAligner-0.6B |
huggingface.co | |
| GitHub | github.com |
Pricing
Price not published.
No price source linked. Checked 29 September 2026.
Specs
- Input
- Audio
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- Not published
- Max output
- Not published
- Open weights
- Yes
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Released
- 29 January 2026
- Status
- Current
- Type
- Speech and audio
What stands out
What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.
52 languages/dialects incl. singing and music
Language ID + ASR for 30 languages and 22 Chinese dialects, robust on songs/music; built on Qwen3-Omni audio understanding; vLLM batch and streaming inference, timestamp prediction via ForcedAligner.
Beats Whisper-large-v3 on Chinese
Self-reported WER e.g. AISHELL-2 2.71 vs 5.06 (Whisper-large-v3); Cantonese CV-yue 7.57 vs 11.36 (GPT-4o-Transcribe).
Notes
Native Transformers (-hf repos) support added 2026-06-26. Hosted ASR is now Qwen-Audio-3.x-ASR (see qwen-audio-3-1-asr).
Sources: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-ASR