AI brief
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Audio-3.1, a lineup of five models for speech recognition, text-to-speech, and real-time interaction, and cut AI audio prices by up to 95 percent. The ASR model improves multilingual and dialect recognition and automatically cleans up filler words.
Why it matters: The price cuts lower the cost of using AI audio services.
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