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Fun-ASR Released 2025-08-22

Alibaba transcription
Price$0.0021/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 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",
    file=open("meeting.mp3", "rb"),
    language="en",
)
print(resp.text)

About Fun-ASR

Accepts files up to 12 hours
Hotword customization for domain terminology
Speaker diarization for multi-speaker recordings

Fun-ASR is Alibaba Cloud Model Studio's recording-file speech recognition model for offline transcription of pre-recorded audio.

  • It accepts files up to 12 hours and 2 GB, handles single-file and batch jobs, and recognizes Chinese (Mandarin plus many regional dialects such as Cantonese, Wu, and Hokkien), English, Japanese, Korean, and dozens of other languages.
  • The official docs highlight hotword customization for domain terminology and speaker diarization for multi-speaker recordings.
  • Synthorai serves Fun-ASR through its OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so existing transcription clients work without modification.

Specs & limits

Modalitiesaudio → text
Featuresbatch · diarization
Audio limitsAsync file transcription up to 12h / 2GB; hotwords + speaker diarization; sentence/word timestamps; 30+ languages incl. Chinese dialects
NotableSinging recognition added 2025-12; open-sourced Fun-ASR-Nano is a distinct model from these served weights.

per Alibaba official docs ↗

FAQ

Is the Fun-ASR 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 against your real workload before adding a payment method.

What is Fun-ASR best at?

Accepts files up to 12 hours, plus hotword customization for domain terminology and speaker diarization for multi-speaker recordings. See the About section for the full picture from the vendor's own release notes.

How much does Fun-ASR cost?

Fun-ASR costs $0.0021 per minute of audio transcribed on Synthorai: pay-as-you-go, no platform markup, no subscription.

Which languages does Fun-ASR support?

Fun-ASR supports 30+ languages incl. Chinese dialects. On Synthorai you call it through POST /v1/audio/transcriptions, the OpenAI transcription API shape.

How do I get access to Fun-ASR?

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

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