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Aliyun Bailian

Mar 1, 2026 Aliyun Bailian 2 min read

Aliyun Bailian (5): Qwen-TTS for Multilingual Voice

Qwen-TTS-Flash for production: native-only API, the 40+ voice catalog (including Cantonese and Sichuanese), streaming synthesis, and the SSML quirks that the docs gloss over.

Feb 28, 2026 Aliyun Bailian 5 min read

Aliyun Bailian (4): Wanxiang Video Generation End-to-End

Wanxiang text-to-video and image-to-video for production: the async task pattern, polling with backoff, prompt techniques that survive contact with reality, and the OSS write-through that saves you when result URLs …

Feb 27, 2026 Aliyun Bailian 5 min read

Aliyun Bailian (3): Qwen-Omni for Video, Audio, and Image Understanding

Qwen-Omni for production multimodal: the four input types, the streaming requirement that the docs do not warn you about, and a working video-understanding pipeline with sane pixel budgets.

Feb 26, 2026 Aliyun Bailian 6 min read

Aliyun Bailian (2): The Qwen LLM API in Production

Picking a Qwen variant by latency and cost, function calling done right, JSON mode without tears, and the enable_thinking + streaming requirement that the docs gloss over.

Feb 25, 2026 Aliyun Bailian 6 min read

Aliyun Bailian (1): Platform Overview and First Request

A practitioner's tour of Alibaba Cloud Bailian (DashScope) — what's actually in the model catalog, the two endpoint flavors, the async task pattern, and a working sample request to ground the rest of the series.