Apriel Voice 27B Preview: An Open Model for Speech, Reasoning, and Tool Use
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcehuggingface.co · Opens in a new tabApriel Voice 27B Preview is an open speech-language model that unifies speech understanding, reasoning, and tool use within a shared backbone while retaining text and image inputs. Built on the post-trained Gemma 4 26B-A4B checkpoint, it processes speech directly and generates responses and tool calls without a separate dialogue model. A two-stage training procedure adapts the model to speech, using supervised fine-tuning, text replay, and online distillation. In thinking mode it reports 98.90 on Big Bench Audio, 81.13 on Speech-BFCL, and 65.51% task success on τ-Voice, with 1.91 seconds mean latency.
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Apriel Voice 27B Preview is an open speech-language model that unifies speech understanding, reasoning, and tool use within a shared backbone while retaining text and image inputs. Built on the post-trained Gemma 4 26B-A4B checkpoint, it processes speech directly and generates responses and tool calls without a separate dialogue model. A two-stage training procedure adapts the model to speech, using supervised fine-tuning, text replay, and online distillation. In thinking mode it reports 98.90 on Big Bench Audio, 81.13 on Speech-BFCL, and 65.51% task success on τ-Voice, with 1.91 seconds mean latency.
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- Processes speech directly and generates both responses and tool calls without a separate dialogue model.
- Two-stage training combines supervised fine-tuning, text replay, and cross-entropy plus forward KL supervision.
- Reports 98.90 on Big Bench Audio and 81.13 on Speech-BFCL in thinking mode.
- Achieves 65.51% task success on τ-Voice with a mean latency of 1.91 seconds.
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