Speech-to-Speech LLM Pipeline and Roadmap

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Speech-to-speech LLM pipeline using EnCodec audio tokenization and a 300M-parameter GPT transformer decoder to generate natural voice responses directly from audio input without intermediate text. User voice is encoded into 4-codebook audio tokens (1024 vocabulary), processed through a 12-layer transformer with causal self-attention and cross-attention, then decoded back to raw waveform via EnCodec on CPU while the model runs on GPU. This pure audio-to-audio architecture eliminates speech recognition and text generation bottlenecks, enabling low-latency conversational AI. Fork and customize this diagram on Diagrams.so to adapt the tokenization strategy, adjust transformer depth, or integrate your own audio codec. The roadmap shows progression from 10M-parameter prototypes through multi-codebook training on AMD MI300X toward real-time duplex streaming and accent-specific fine-tuning.

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How do you build a speech-to-speech LLM that generates voice responses directly from audio without text?

This diagram shows a pure audio-to-audio pipeline: user voice is encoded into 4-codebook audio tokens via EnCodec (CPU), fed through a 300M-parameter GPT transformer with causal self-attention (GPU), then decoded back to raw waveform. The roadmap progresses from 10M-parameter prototypes to 300M-parameter multi-codebook models, with planned features including encoder-decoder architecture, audio mem

Speech-to-Speech LLM Pipeline and Roadmap

Autoadvancedspeech-to-speechLLMaudio-AIEnCodectransformerneural-codec
Domain: Ml PipelineAudience: Machine learning engineers building end-to-end audio AI systems and speech processing models
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March 12, 2026

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March 12, 2026 at 9:51 AM

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