STEP AUDIO CHAT (HUGGING FACE HUB)

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This is the Multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) component of Step-Audio. It is a 130-billion-parameter multimodal LLM that is responsible for understanding and generating human speech. The model is specifically designed to seamlessly integrate functions such as speech recognition, semantic understanding, dialogue management, voice cloning, and speech generation.