Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: A Full-Duplex Voice Model Trained to Think, Act, and Decide When to Speak
MarkTechPost 2 weeks ago 28 ● 5 sources
Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen-Audio-3.1, including Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime, a full-duplex voice model for voice agents that reason and call tools. The release cuts prices by about 85% for Realtime, about 70% for TTS, and up to 95% for ASR, with access via a managed QwenCloud API rather than open weights. Model deployment shifts to WebSocket-based QwenCloud usage (Qwen-Audio-3.1-realtime-plus live) alongside an offline ASR companion model, plus newly listed context length and billing rates.