FireRedAudio: A General-Purpose Audio Language Model with Decoupled Continuous Representations for Understanding and Generation
FireRedAudio is introduced, a general-purpose audio language model with a shared 9B-parameter LLM that achieves competitive or leading performance in audio understanding and multilingual ASR, strong content accuracy and speaker preservation in zero-shot TTS, leading instruction following in Instruct TTS, and substantial improvements over Ming-UniAudio-Edit in both semantic and acoustic speech editing.