# Xiaohongshu FireRed Launches General Audio Language Model FireRedAudio

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- Published: 2026-09-01T11:54:00.000Z
- Source date: 2026-09-01
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Xiaohongshu's FireRed team has released FireRedAudio, a general audio language model based on the Qwen3.5 architecture. It supports six major tasks including ASR and audio QA, achieving leading results in multilingual evaluations.

## At a glance

- Built on Qwen3.5 architecture, supporting six audio tasks including ASR and TTS
- Achieved a 14.94% average error rate on FLEURS-102, leading in multilingual evaluations

## The update

The FireRed team at Xiaohongshu has officially launched FireRedAudio, a general-purpose audio language model. Built on the Qwen3.5 architecture with 9 billion parameters, it utilizes a decoupled continuous representation design. Functionally, FireRedAudio handles six core tasks simultaneously: automatic speech recognition, audio question answering, long-form audio understanding of up to one hour, zero-shot text-to-speech, instruction-based text-to-speech, and voice editing. The model has achieved leading results in various authoritative benchmarks, including MMAU, MMSU, automatic speech recognition across 102 languages, and instruction-based text-to-speech tests. Notably, it recorded an average error rate of just 14.94% on the FLEURS-102 benchmark, demonstrating robust multilingual processing capabilities and advanced audio understanding.

## Sources

- [FireRedAudio](https://www.88z.ai/flash/cite/flash-20260901-130f8480aae8cb05) (2026-09-01)

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