AI BriefingQwen2-Audio: Talking with Your Voice
Key point
Qwen's next-generation audio model, **Qwen2-Audio**, has been released, supporting both voice and text input.
Details
Multimodal understanding capability is essential for building AGI systems. Following Qwen-VL and Qwen-Audio, which extended the existing Qwen model to vision and audio, the next-generation model Qwen2-Audio has been released.
Qwen2-Audio is a model that takes audio and text input and responds with text, offering the following key features.
- Voice Chat: Understands users' voice commands directly without a separate ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) module.
- Audio Analysis: Analyzes various audio information such as speech, sounds, and music according to text instructions.
- Multilingual: Supports 8 or more languages and dialects, including Chinese, English, Cantonese, French, Italian, Spanish, German, and Japanese.
Currently, the Qwen2-Audio-7B and Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct models have been released as open-weight on Hugging Face and ModelScope. These models demonstrate excellent performance across a wide range of tasks, including speaker identification, speech translation, background noise detection, and audio-based storytelling.
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