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Alibaba launches Qwen Audio 3.1 with new models and slashes AI audio prices by up to 95 percent

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Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Audio-3.1, a suite of five models covering speech recognition, text-to-speech, and real-time interaction with improved multilingual support and emotional detection. The company reduced pricing for audio AI services by up to 95 percent.

Why it matters

Lower-cost, multilingual audio AI models make voice processing technology accessible to more developers and businesses globally.

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