←Back to NewsAI News/AudionewsAudioApiAlibaba's Qwen-Audio 3.1 Slashes Voice API Prices by up to 95%Alibaba's Qwen team ships a five-model audio stack covering recognition, synthesis, and real-time conversation, with price cuts up to 95 percent.SourceQwenPublishedSep 23, 2026, 9:11 AMAuthorAlphaSignal NewsroomRead1 min readAlibaba's Qwen team ships a five-model audio stack covering recognition, synthesis, and real-time conversation, with price cuts up to 95 percent.Reporting is indexed from AlphaSignal. Rights remain with the original publisher and cited sources.Read original report ↗Next readsSpaceXAI · newsxAI Ships Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 With Half the Errors at Same PriceOpenAI Developers · newsOpenAI's GPT-Live-1 Cuts Voice Agent Code by 80% at $0.05 a MinuteGradium · newsGradium's Voice Design Beats ElevenLabs With 72.6% Win Rate for Free