license: apache-2.0
language:
- en
tags:
- audio-text-to-text
- chat
- audio
- GGUF
Qwen2-Audio
We're bringing Qwen2-Audio to run locally on edge devices with Nexa-SDK, offering various GGUF quantization options.
Qwen2-Audio is a SOTA small-scale multimodal model (AudioLM) that handles audio and text inputs, allowing you to have voice interactions without ASR modules. Qwen2-Audio supports English, Chinese, and major European languages,and provides voice chat and audio analysis capabilities for local use cases like:
- Speaker identification and response
- Speech translation and transcription
- Mixed audio and noise detection
- Music and sound analysis
Demo
See more demos in our blogs
How to Run Locally On Device
In the following, we demonstrate how to run Qwen2-Audio locally on your device.
Step 1: Install Nexa-SDK (local on-device inference framework)
Nexa-SDK is a open-sourced, local on-device inference framework, supporting text generation, image generation, vision-language models (VLM), audio-language models, speech-to-text (ASR), and text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities. Installable via Python Package or Executable Installer.
Step 2: Then run the following code in your terminal
nexa run qwen2audio
This will run default q4_K_M quantization.
For terminal:
- Drag and drop your audio file into the terminal (or enter file path on Linux)
- Add text prompt to guide analysis or leave empty for direct voice input
or to use with local UI (streamlit):
nexa run qwen2audio -st
Choose Quantizations for your device
Run different quantization versions here and check RAM requirements in our list.
The default q4_K_M version requires 4.2GB of RAM.
Use Cases
Voice Chat
- Answer daily questions
- Offer suggestions
- Speaker identification and response
- Speech translation
- Detecting background noise and responding accordingly
Audio Analysis
- Information Extraction
- Audio summary
- Speech Transcription and Expansion
- Mixed audio and noise detection
- Music and sound analysis
Performance Benchmark
Results demonstrate that Qwen2-Audio significantly outperforms either previous SOTAs or Qwen-Audio across all tasks.
Blog
Learn more in our blogs