# Advancing Speech Language Models by Scaling Supervised Fine-Tuning with Over 60,000 Hours of Synthetic Speech Dialogue Data

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01078 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.01078/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 19 of its 35 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 2 Dec 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 19 of 19)

- [The Llama 3 Herd of Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.21783/) (2024)
- [Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.06670/) (2019)
- [Moshi: a speech-text foundation model for real-time dialogue](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.00037/) (2024)
- [Qwen2-Audio Technical Report](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.10759/) (2024)
- [SpeechGPT: Empowering Large Language Models with Intrinsic Cross-Modal Conversational Abilities](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.11000/) (2023)
- [SALMONN: Towards Generic Hearing Abilities for Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.13289/) (2023)
- [MLS: A Large-Scale Multilingual Dataset for Speech Research](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.03411/) (2020)
- [MUSAN: A Music, Speech, and Noise Corpus](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1510.08484/) (2015)
- [GigaSpeech: An Evolving, Multi-domain ASR Corpus with 10,000 Hours of Transcribed Audio](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.06909/) (2021)
- [UTMOS: UTokyo-SaruLab System for VoiceMOS Challenge 2022](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.02152/) (2022)
- [AIR-Bench: Benchmarking Large Audio-Language Models via Generative Comprehension](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.07729/) (2024)
- [Emilia: An Extensive, Multilingual, and Diverse Speech Dataset for Large-Scale Speech Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.05361/) (2024)
- [VoiceBench: Benchmarking LLM-Based Voice Assistants](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.17196/) (2024)
- [VITA: Towards Open-Source Interactive Omni Multimodal LLM](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.05211/) (2024)
- [LLaMA-Omni: Seamless Speech Interaction with Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.06666/) (2024)
- [LaMini-LM: A Diverse Herd of Distilled Models from Large-Scale Instructions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.14402/) (2023)
- [Mini-Omni2: Towards Open-source GPT-4o with Vision, Speech and Duplex Capabilities](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.11190/) (2024)
- [Exploring the Impact of Instruction Data Scaling on Large Language Models: An Empirical Study on Real-World Use Cases](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.14742/) (2023)
- [ChatHome: Development and Evaluation of a Domain-Specific Language Model for Home Renovation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.15290/) (2023)

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Understanding the Modality Gap: An Empirical Study on the Speech-Text Alignment Mechanism of Large Speech Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.12116/) (2025)
- [DialogueAgents: A Hybrid Agent-Based Speech Synthesis Framework for Multi-Party Dialogue](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.14482/) (2025)
- [Voice "Cloning" is Style Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.16578/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The GPT-4o represents a significant milestone in enabling real-time interaction with large language models (LLMs) through speech, its remarkable low latency and high fluency not only capture attention but also stimulate research interest in the field. This real-time speech interaction is particularly valuable in scenarios requiring rapid feedback and immediate responses, dramatically enhancing user experience. However, there is a notable lack of research focused on real-time large speech language models, particularly for Chinese. In this work, we present KE-Omni, a seamless large speech language model built upon Ke-SpeechChat, a large-scale high-quality synthetic speech interaction dataset consisting of 7 million Chinese and English conversations, featuring 42,002 speakers, and totaling over 60,000 hours, This contributes significantly to the advancement of research and development in this field. The demos can be accessed at urlhttps://huggingface.co/spaces/KE-Team/KE-Omni.
