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Qwen Alibaba Cloud: Qwen3 ASR Flash

qwen/qwen3-asr-flash
active stt 1 provider
Playground

Qwen multilingual speech recognition model for pre-recorded audio, covering 27 language codes with automatic language detection, context biasing, optional inverse text normalization and an always-on emotion label.

AuthorQwen Alibaba Cloud
Languages27 languages
Variant models3 IDs
Statusactive

Variant Models

These are native model IDs accepted by the author/provider for the same canonical model family.

Qwen3 ASR Flash Default

Stable id, currently equivalent to the qwen3-asr-flash-2025-09-08 snapshot rather than the latest one.

qwen3-asr-flash
Qwen3 ASR Flash snapshot 2026-02-10 Variant

Latest dated snapshot of Qwen3 ASR Flash, listed separately from the stable id.

qwen3-asr-flash-2026-02-10
Qwen3 ASR Flash snapshot 2025-09-08 Variant

Earlier dated snapshot of Qwen3 ASR Flash; the stable qwen3-asr-flash id currently resolves to this snapshot.

qwen3-asr-flash-2025-09-08

Providers

Different providers can host the same model. Choose one provider when you need a fixed backend, or let routing select among them.

ProviderSlugPer hourLatencyiFor TTS, latency is measured as time to first byte of audio. For STT, latency is measured as time to first token.ModesUptime
Qwen Alibaba Cloud 5 params
qwen
$0.126
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Synchronous

Supported languages

27 languages
Chinese zh
Cantonese yue
English en
Japanese ja
German de
Korean ko
Russian ru
French fr
Portuguese pt
Arabic ar
Italian it
Spanish es
Hindi hi
Indonesian id
Thai th
Turkish tr
Ukrainian uk
Vietnamese vi
Czech cs
Danish da
Filipino fil
Finnish fi
Icelandic is
Malay ms
Norwegian no
Polish pl
Swedish sv

Features

Speech to text

Transcribes spoken audio to text.

speech_to_text
Synchronous

Transcribes a fully-submitted audio file in a single request.

synchronous
Automatic language detection

Detects the spoken language automatically when no language is specified and reports it with the transcript.

language_identification
Multilingual transcription

Supports 27 language codes, with Mandarin, Sichuanese, Hokkien/Minnan and Wu all under zh and Cantonese under the separate yue code.

multilingual_transcription
Context biasing

Accepts free-form context text (background text or hotwords) that biases recognition toward domain-specific terms.

context_biasing
Emotion recognition

Returns an always-on emotion label (neutral, happy, sad, angry, disgusted, fearful, surprised) with the transcript.

emotion_recognition
Inverse text normalization

Optional inverse text normalization, off by default and effective for Chinese and English only.

inverse_text_normalization

Code

Client
Mode
Language

ElevenLabs SDK streaming STT

Streams microphone or file audio through the ElevenLabs-compatible allmodels route.

import { ElevenLabsClient } from "elevenlabs";

const client = new ElevenLabsClient({
  apiKey: process.env.ALLMODELS_API_KEY,
  baseUrl: "https://api.allmodels.io/el"
});

const connection = await client.speechToText.realtime.connect({
  modelId: "qwen/qwen3-asr-flash",
  languageCode: "en"
}, {
  queryParams: {
    provider: {
      "only": [
        "qwen"
      ]
    }
  }
});

// Send audio frames to connection, then handle transcript events.