AI Audio

Qwen Cloud has enough official audio evidence to warrant a separate audio-category profile.

Best fit · Teams evaluating Chinese speech synthesis, voice cloning, ASR and realtime speech APIs through an English platform.

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Qwen Cloud billing / Token Plan where supported

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May 17

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Free tier and pay-as-you-go speech API billing vary by model

Audio is now a documented GLM capability family and should be visible in the audio category.

Best fit · Developers evaluating Chinese speech, voice clone, ASR and realtime multimodal APIs.

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Free model where available / Platform billing

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May 17

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Usage-based audio API pricing varies by model

MiniMax Audio deserves a separate profile because the official API docs cover a mature speech product line beyond general model chat.

Best fit · Teams evaluating Chinese speech synthesis, voice cloning and multilingual audio generation APIs.

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Audio Subscription / Token Plan

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May 17

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Audio Subscription, Token Plan quotas, Credits and pay-as-you-go billing vary by model

LongCat-AudioDiT belongs in AI Audio because it is a direct-text-to-speech and voice-cloning model with released code and weights, not a generic research paper.

Best fit · Researchers and speech teams evaluating open-source TTS, waveform-latent diffusion and zero-shot voice cloning.

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GitHub repository / Model weights download

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May 18

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Open-source MIT repository and released model weights; inference runs locally or through a Hugging Face-compatible workflow

MiniMax Music is a distinct international product line in the official docs and should not be hidden inside a generic API profile.

Best fit · Creators and developers evaluating Chinese music generation APIs for songs, covers and app soundtracks.

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Token Plan / Credits

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May 17

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Token Plan music quotas, Credits and pay-as-you-go billing vary by model

Seeduplex gives ByteDance Seed a distinct voice-interaction profile beyond text, image and video models.

Best fit · Teams tracking Chinese full-duplex speech models, realtime voice agents and multimodal interaction research.

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BytePlus billing / Volcano Engine billing

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May 17

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Voice model access and pricing should be verified through BytePlus or Volcano Engine

StepAudio is a distinct capability line and should be visible in the AI Audio category, not hidden under the generic StepFun profile.

Best fit · Teams evaluating Chinese speech APIs for expressive TTS, voice cloning, dubbing, customer service, NPC dialogue and transcription.

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Open Platform balance / Step Plan quota for supported audio models

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May 17

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stepaudio-2.5-tts $0.85 / 10,000 characters; step-tts-2 $0.40 / 10,000 characters; ASR $0.022 / hour; voice cloning $1.50 / voice

MiMo now has enough English-facing speech signals to deserve a separate audio profile.

Best fit · Teams watching Xiaomi's speech stack for ASR, TTS and voice-agent experiments.

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API Platform billing / AI Studio

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May 17

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Speech-model pricing not publicly visible on the English homepage; verify inside MiMo API Platform