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Fun-ASR Realtime Released 2025-09-23

Alibaba transcription
Price$0.002/min

Provider list prices: no platform markup, pay-as-you-go. These are official list prices. Logged-in customers may see effective prices including workspace discounts on /console/pricing.

Use Fun-ASR Realtime in 30 seconds

OpenAI-compatible: swap the base_url, keep your SDK. POST /v1/audio/transcriptions

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://synthorai.io/v1",
    api_key="sk-syn-...",
)

resp = client.audio.transcriptions.create(
    model="fun-asr-realtime",
    file=open("meeting.mp3", "rb"),
    language="en",
)
print(resp.text)

About Fun-ASR Realtime

Streaming transcription with no duration cap
Built for live captions and meetings
Hotword customization with multilingual coverage

Fun-ASR Realtime is Alibaba's streaming speech recognition model: audio is streamed in over a persistent connection and text is streamed back with low latency, with no cap on stream duration.

  • The official docs position it for live captions, voice assistants, and meeting transcription, and it carries the Fun-ASR family's strengths of hotword customization plus multilingual coverage including Chinese regional dialects, English, Japanese, and Korean.
  • Synthorai makes it callable through the same OpenAI-compatible interface used for the rest of its audio catalog.

Specs & limits

Modalitiesaudio → text
Featuresrealtime · streaming
Audio limitsReal-time WebSocket streaming, unlimited duration; RAG-based large-scale hotwords; millisecond timestamps; VAD turn detection
NotableDocs also describe 7-state emotion recognition on the realtime guide.

per Alibaba official docs ↗

FAQ

Is the Fun-ASR Realtime API free to try?

Yes: new accounts get 10 trial calls and up to $1 in free credit, no card required. That's enough to try Fun-ASR Realtime against your real workload before adding a payment method.

What is Fun-ASR Realtime best at?

Streaming transcription with no duration cap, plus built for live captions and meetings and hotword customization with multilingual coverage. See the About section for the full picture from the vendor's own release notes.

How much does Fun-ASR Realtime cost?

Fun-ASR Realtime costs $0.002 per minute of audio transcribed on Synthorai: pay-as-you-go, no platform markup, no subscription.

Which languages does Fun-ASR Realtime support?

On Synthorai you call Fun-ASR Realtime through POST /v1/audio/transcriptions, the OpenAI transcription API shape. Official language list →

How do I get access to Fun-ASR Realtime?

Point your existing OpenAI SDK at base_url="https://synthorai.io/v1", set model="fun-asr-realtime", and you're done. One API key covers every model on the gateway.

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