Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime, a full-duplex voice model trained to reason, call tools and decide when to speak. On a τ-Voice adaptation, task success rises to 82.0% from 78.4%. Replies to background speech drop from 73% to 13%. It is available now as an API on QwenCloud.
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