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

MarkTechPost / 3/26/2026

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Key Points

  • Tencent AI Lab has open-sourced Covo-Audio, a 7B-parameter end-to-end Large Audio Language Model aimed at unifying speech processing with language intelligence.
  • The model is designed to take continuous audio as input and produce audio outputs directly within a single architecture, targeting real-time audio conversation capabilities.
  • Covo-Audio’s framework is built from four primary components intended to enable seamless cross-modal interaction between audio perception and generative reasoning.
  • An accompanying inference pipeline is provided to support low-latency, end-to-end operation for real-time audio conversations and reasoning tasks.

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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