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

Michal Sutter / March 26, 2026

Tencent AI Lab has released Covo-Audio, a 7B-parameter end-to-end Large Audio Language Model (LALM). The model is designed to unify speech processing and language intelligence by directly processing continuous audio inputs and generating audio outputs within a single architecture. System Architecture The Covo-Audio framework consists of four primary components designed for seamless cross-modal interaction: Hierarchical […]

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Google AI Releases WAXAL: A Multilingual African Speech Dataset for Training Automatic Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech Models

Speech technology still has a data distribution problem. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have improved rapidly for high-resource languages, but many African languages remain poorly represented in open corpora. A team of researchers from Google and other collaborators introduce WAXAL, an open multilingual speech dataset for African languages covering 24 languages, with […]

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