Realtime spoken interaction demands deep reasoning, prompt responses, and fluid turn-taking. We present StepAudio 3 Realtime, an audio-language foundation model organized around a continuous listen-converse-think-act loop. Deep Perception captures rich acoustic cues to interpret user intent, while Seamless Duplex model...
Bin Lin, Bo Zhao, Bo-Yang Zhang et al.· 4 citations
This study introduces StepAudio 3 Gen, a general-purpose audio generation model that supports zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS), voice design, vocal generation, sound effects, music, vibe speech, and mixtures of multiple audio types within a unified framework.
Bin Lin, Bo Zhao, Bo-Yang Wang et al.· 0 citations
ParaASR is introduced, an ASR system that leverages Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) to let a 4B LLM decoder emit multiple tokens per forward step and shows that decoder scaling, low-latency inference, and long-context transcription need not be competing goals when future-token proposals are anchored by the acoustic signal...