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Step-Audio is a unified, open-source framework aimed at building intelligent speech systems that combine both comprehension and generation: it integrates large language models (LLMs) with speech input/output to handle not only semantic understanding but also rich vocal characteristics like tone, style, dialect, emotion, and prosody. The design moves beyond traditional separate-component pipelines (ASR → text model → TTS), instead offering a multimodal model that ingests speech or audio and produces speech accordingly, enabling natural dialogue, voice cloning, and expressive speech synthesis. ...