**Qwen-Audio** (Qwen Large Audio Language Model) is the multimodal version of the large model series, Qwen (abbr. Tongyi Qianwen), proposed by Alibaba Cloud. Qwen-Audio accepts diverse audio (human speech, natural sound, music and song) and text as inputs, outputs text. The contribution of Qwen-Audio include:
- **Fundamental audio models**: Qwen-Audio is a fundamental multi-task audio-language model that supports various tasks, languages, and audio types, serving as a universal audio understanding model. Building upon Qwen-Audio, we develop Qwen-Audio-Chat through instruction fine-tuning, enabling multi-turn dialogues and supporting diverse audio-oriented scenarios.
- **Multi-task learning framework for all types of audios**: To scale up audio-language pre-training, we address the challenge of variation in textual labels associated with different datasets by proposing a multi-task training framework, enabling knowledge sharing and avoiding one-to-many interference. Our model incorporates more than 30 tasks and extensive experiments show the model achieves strong performance.
- **Strong Performance**: Experimental results show that Qwen-Audio achieves impressive performance across diverse benchmark tasks without requiring any task-specific fine-tuning, surpassing its counterparts. Specifically, Qwen-Audio achieves state-of-the-art results on the test set of Aishell1, cochlscene, ClothoAQA, and VocalSound.
- **Flexible multi-run chat from audio and text input**: Qwen-Audio supports multiple-audio analysis, sound understading and reasoning, music appreciation, and tool usage for speech editing.
**Qwen-Audio** 是阿里云研发的大规模音频语言模型（Large Audio Language Model）。Qwen-Audio 可以以多种音频 (包括说话人语音、自然音、音乐、歌声）和文本作为输入，并以文本作为输出。Qwen-Audio 系列模型的特点包括：
- **音频基石模型**：Qwen-Audio是一个性能卓越的通用的音频理解模型，支持各种任务、语言和音频类型。在Qwen-Audio的基础上，我们通过指令微调开发了Qwen-Audio-Chat，支持多轮、多语言、多语言对话。Qwen-Audio和Qwen-Audio-Chat模型均已开源。
- **兼容多种复杂音频的多任务学习框架**：为了避免由于数据收集来源不同以及任务类型不同，带来的音频到文本的一对多的干扰问题，我们提出了一种多任务训练框架，实现相似任务的知识共享，并尽可能减少不同任务之间的干扰。通过提出的框架，Qwen-Audio可以容纳训练超过30多种不同的音频任务；
- **出色的性能**：Qwen-Audio在不需要任何任务特定的微调的情况下，在各种基准任务上取得了领先的结果。具体得，Qwen-Audio在Aishell1、cochlscene、ClothoAQA和VocalSound的测试集上都达到了SOTA；
- **支持多轮音频和文本对话，支持各种语音场景**：Qwen-Audio-Chat支持声音理解和推理、音乐欣赏、多音频分析、多轮音频-文本交错对话以及外部语音工具的使用(如语音编辑)。
We release Qwen-Audio and Qwen-Audio-Chat, which are pretrained model and Chat model respectively. For more details about Qwen-Audio, please refer to our [Github Repo](https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Audio/tree/main). This repo is the one for Qwen-Audio.
目前，我们提供了Qwen-Audio和Qwen-Audio-Chat两个模型，分别为预训练模型和Chat模型。如果想了解更多关于信息，请点击[链接](https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Audio/tree/main)查看Github仓库。本仓库为Qwen-Audio仓库。
## Requirements
* python 3.8 and above
* pytorch 1.12 and above, 2.0 and above are recommended
* CUDA 11.4 and above are recommended (this is for GPU users)
* FFmpeg
## Quickstart
Below, we provide simple examples to show how to use Qwen-Audio with 🤗 Transformers.
Before running the code, make sure you have setup the environment and installed the required packages. Make sure you meet the above requirements, and then install the dependent libraries.
```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
For more details, please refer to [tutorial](https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Audio).
#### 🤗 Transformers
To use Qwen-Audio for the inference, all you need to do is to input a few lines of codes as demonstrated below. However, **please make sure that you are using the latest code.**
```python
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
from transformers.generation import GenerationConfig
import torch
torch.manual_seed(1234)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen-Audio", trust_remote_code=True)
# use bf16
# model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen-Audio", device_map="auto", trust_remote_code=True, bf16=True).eval()
# use fp16
# model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen-Audio", device_map="auto", trust_remote_code=True, fp16=True).eval()
# use cpu only
# model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen-Audio", device_map="cpu", trust_remote_code=True).eval()
# use cuda device
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen-Audio", device_map="cuda", trust_remote_code=True).eval()
# Specify hyperparameters for generation (No need to do this if you are using transformers>4.32.0)
# model.generation_config = GenerationConfig.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen-Audio", trust_remote_code=True)
audio_url = "https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen-Audio/1272-128104-0000.flac"
sp_prompt = "<|startoftranscript|><|en|><|transcribe|><|en|><|notimestamps|><|wo_itn|>"
query = f"{sp_prompt}"
audio_info = tokenizer.process_audio(query)
inputs = tokenizer(query, return_tensors='pt', audio_info=audio_info)
inputs = inputs.to(model.device)
pred = model.generate(**inputs, audio_info=audio_info)
response = tokenizer.decode(pred.cpu()[0], skip_special_tokens=False,audio_info=audio_info)
print(response)
# <|startoftranscription|><|en|><|transcribe|><|en|><|notimestamps|><|wo_itn|>mister quilting is the apostle of the middle classes and we are glad to welcome his gospel<|endoftext|>
```
## License Agreement
Researchers and developers are free to use the codes and model weights of Qwen-Audio. We also allow its commercial use. Check our license at [LICENSE](https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Audio/blob/main/LICENSE.txt) for more details.
## Citation
If you find our paper and code useful in your research, please consider giving a star and citation
```BibTeX
@article{Qwen-Audio,
title={Qwen-Audio: Advancing Universal Audio Understanding via Unified Large-Scale Audio-Language Models},
author={Chu, Yunfei and Xu, Jin and Zhou, Xiaohuan and Yang, Qian and Zhang, Shiliang and Yan, Zhijie and Zhou, Chang and Zhou, Jingren},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.07919},
year={2023}
}
```
## Contact Us
If you are interested to leave a message to either our research team or product team, feel free to send an email to qianwen_opensource@alibabacloud.com.
