Gang Yu

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.

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.