Tencent AI Open Sources Covo-Audio: A 7B Speech Language Model and Inference Pipeline for Real-Time Audio Conversations and Reasoning

Tencent AI Lab has open-sourced Covo-Audio, a 7B-parameter Large Audio Language Model that can process continuous audio inputs and generate audio outputs in real-time. The model unifies speech processing and language intelligence within a single end-to-end architecture designed for seamless cross-modal interaction.

• →Tencent AI Lab released Covo-Audio as an open-source 7B-parameter Large Audio Language Model.
• →The model processes continuous audio inputs and generates audio outputs within a single unified architecture.
• →Covo-Audio is designed for real-time audio conversations and reasoning capabilities.
• →The framework features four primary components enabling seamless cross-modal interaction.
• →This represents a significant advancement in unifying speech processing with language intelligence.