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# MERaLiON

MERaLiON-AudioLLM is a Speech-Text Large Language Model tailored for Singapore’s multilingual and multicultural landscape. Integrating a localised Whisper-Large-V3 and SEA-LIONv3, MERaLiON-AudioLLM is finetuned on **260,000 hours of speech and audio data**, **8 various tasks**, to address the diverse linguistic nuances
of Singapore local accents and dialects.

MERaLiON stands for <i>Multimodal Empathetic Reasoning and Learning in One Network</i>.

- **Developed by:** I<sup>2</sup>R, A\*STAR
- **Funded by [optional]:** Singapore NRF
- **Model type:** MultiModal LLM
- **Language(s) (Speech):** English (general & Singapore)
- **Language(s) (NLP):** English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai, Filipino, Tamil, Malay, Khmer, Lao, Burmese, Javanese, Sundanese
- **License:** MIT

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```python

from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq, AutoProcessor

repo_id = "MERaLiON/AudioLLM"

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
    repo_id, 
    trust_remote_code=True,
    )
model = AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq.from_pretrained(
    repo_id,
    use_safetensors=True,
    trust_remote_code=True,
)

prompt = "Can you please turn this audio into text format?"
conversation = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": f"Given the following audio context: <SpeechHere>\n\nText instruction: {prompt}"
    }
]
chat_prompt = processor.tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    conversation=conversation,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True
)

libri_data = load_dataset("distil-whisper/librispeech_long", "clean", split="validation")
audio_array = libri_data[0]["audio"]["array"]

inputs = processor(text=chat_prompt, audios=audio_array, time_duration_limit=20)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=128)

print(processor.decode(outputs[0, inputs['input_ids'].size(1):], skip_special_tokens=True))

```

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