Qwen2-Audio
Open 7B audio-language model for voice chat and audio analysis.
About
Qwen2-Audio is Alibaba's open audio-language model with two modes: voice chat that needs no text input, and audio analysis where you pair audio with text instructions. The 7B instruct variant handles speech, sounds, and music across 8+ languages including Chinese, English, Cantonese, French, and Japanese.
It is one of the more practical open options for local audio understanding, with GGUF quants and llama.cpp support. Audio input is capped around 30 seconds per turn, which limits long-form analysis.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Paper (arXiv 2407.10759), official GitHub repo, independent awesome-list coverage; Manual review: practical open audio-understanding model; ~30s audio cap per turn. License: Apache 2.0.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 8.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 8.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 8.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 8.0/10
- · Paper (arXiv 2407.10759), official GitHub repo, independent awesome-list coverage
- · Manual review: practical open audio-understanding model; ~30s audio cap per turn