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StepAudio 3 Realtime, an audio-language foundation model organized around a continuous listen-converse-think-act loop, achieves dialogue and reasoning performance comparable to dedicated reasoning models while speaking in real time, and resolves the tension between deep deliberation and latency via Think-While-Speaking.
Forget specialized architectures: StepAudio 2.5 proves a single audio-language foundation, shaped by RLHF, can dominate ASR, TTS, and real-time dialogue simultaneously.
RLVR, the dominant training paradigm for audio language models, may be turning them into unfeeling "answering machines" that excel on benchmarks but fail the vibe check.
