Kimi-Audio

Kimi-Audio is an ambitious open-source audio foundation model designed to unify a wide array of audio processing tasks — from speech recognition and audio understanding to generative conversation and sound event classification — within a single cohesive architecture. Instead of fragmenting work across specialized models, Kimi-Audio handles automatic speech recognition (ASR), audio question answering, automatic audio captioning, speech emotion recognition, and audio-to-text chat in one system, enabling developers to build rich, multimodal audio applications without stitching together disparate components. It uses a novel model setup that combines continuous acoustic features with discrete semantic tokens to richly capture sound and meaning across speech, music, and environmental audio.