Chao Yan

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.

This study introduces StepAudio 3 Gen, a general-purpose audio generation model that supports zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS), voice design, vocal generation, sound effects, music, vibe speech, and mixtures of multiple audio types within a unified framework.

This work introduces StepAudio 3 Music, a large-scale, long-form music generation model that supports explicit musical planning and open-domain text-controlled generation, and achieves the highest AudioBox Content Enjoyment, Content Usefulness, and Production Quality scores and the highest MuQ-MuLan similarity among the evaluated systems.