Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: A Full-Duplex Voice Model Trained to Think, Act, and Decide When to Speak

Alibaba has released Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime, a full-duplex voice model capable of reasoning, using external tools, and managing conversational timing. The update improves task success rates to 82% and significantly reduces unnecessary interruptions by background speech to 13%, marking a technical refinement in how the model handles live audio interactions. It is currently available for integration through the QwenCloud API.