FlexiSLM: 一种动态可控帧率的语音语言模型
阅读原文· arxiv.orgFlexiSLM是首个支持动态可控帧率的语音语言模型。它利用动态帧率表示,在高质量操作点上超越了固定帧率的7B模型Qwen2.5-Omni和Kimi-Audio。FlexiSLM可精确控制帧率至4.0 Hz;在6.25 Hz下推理时间相比12.5 Hz减半,同时保持强语音质量。
Spoken language models (SLMs) extend LLMs to speech input and output. Existing SLMs represent speech at fixed frame rates (e.g., 25 or 12.5 Hz), ignoring the time-varying information density of speech and offering no flexibility to trade off quality for speed at inference time. Recent audio tokenizer research has proposed dynamic frame rate speech coding, which exploits this non-uniformity and enables two new capabilities: very low average frame rates and frame rate controllability. However, this technique has not yet been applied to SLMs. We introduce Flexible Spoken Language Model (FlexiSLM), the first SLM that supports dynamic and controllable frame rates on both speech input and output. Using dynamic frame rate representations, FlexiSLM outperforms fixed-frame-rate 7B models including Qwen2.5-Omni and Kimi-Audio at its high-quality operating points. We further verify that FlexiSLM can be accurately steered down to 4.0 Hz; at 6.25 Hz, it roughly halves inference time relative to 12.5 Hz while retaining strong speech-to-speech quality. Audio samples are available at https://flexislm.github.io .