ACL 2025long0 citations

LLaMA-Omni 2: LLM-based Real-time Spoken Chatbot with Autoregressive Streaming Speech Synthesis

Qingkai Fang, Yan Zhou, Shoutao Guo, Shaolei Zhang, Yang Feng

Abstract

Real-time, intelligent, and natural speech interaction is an essential part of the next-generation human-computer interaction. Recent advancements have showcased the potential of building intelligent spoken chatbots based on large language models (LLMs). In this paper, we introduce LLaMA-Omni 2, a series of speech language models (SpeechLMs) ranging from 0.5B to 14B parameters, capable of achieving high-quality real-time speech interaction. LLaMA-Omni 2 is built upon the Qwen2.5 series models, integrating a speech encoder and an autoregressive streaming speech decoder. Despite being trained on only 200K multi-turn speech dialogue samples, LLaMA-Omni 2 demonstrates strong performance on several spoken question answering and speech instruction following benchmarks, surpassing previous state-of-the-art SpeechLMs like GLM-4-Voice, which was trained on millions of hours of speech data.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{fang-etal-2025-llama,
    title = "{LL}a{MA}-Omni 2: {LLM}-based Real-time Spoken Chatbot with Autoregressive Streaming Speech Synthesis",
    author = "Fang, Qingkai  and
      Zhou, Yan  and
      Guo, Shoutao  and
      Zhang, Shaolei  and
      Feng, Yang",
    editor = "Che, Wanxiang  and
      Nabende, Joyce  and
      Shutova, Ekaterina  and
      Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.912/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.912",
    pages = "18617--18629",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-251-0"
}