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FireRedASR2-AED

Available as managed deployment Audio FireRedTeam Speech→text 1 variants 678 dl/mo

FireRedASR2-AED is an open-weight audio or speech model from FireRedTeam. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

Released byFireRedTeam
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Released2026-02-12
Popularity678 downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What FireRedASR2-AED is

FireRedASR2S A SOTA Industrial-Grade All-in-One ASR System

[Code] [Paper] [Model] [Blog] [Demo]

FireRedASR2S is a state-of-the-art (SOTA), industrial-grade, all-in-one ASR system presented in the paper FireRedASR2S: A State-of-the-Art Industrial-Grade All-in-One Automatic Speech Recognition System. It integrates four modules into a unified pipeline: ASR, Voice Activity Detection (VAD), Spoken Language Identification (LID), and Punctuation Prediction (Punc).

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Key Features

  • FireRedASR2: Supports speech and singing transcription for Mandarin, Chinese dialects/accents, English, and code-switching.
  • FireRedVAD: Ultra-lightweight module (0.6M parameters) supporting streaming and multi-label VAD (speech/singing/music).
  • FireRedLID: Supports Spoken Language Identification for 100+ languages and 20+ Chinese dialects.
  • FireRedPunc: BERT-style punctuation prediction for Chinese and English.

Sample Usage

To use the system, first clone the official repository and install the dependencies. Then you can use the following Python API:

from fireredasr2s import FireRedAsr2System, FireRedAsr2SystemConfig

# Initialize the system with default config
asr_system_config = FireRedAsr2SystemConfig()
asr_system = FireRedAsr2System(asr_system_config)

# Process an audio file (16kHz 16-bit mono PCM)
result = asr_system.process("assets/hello_zh.wav")
print(result['text'])
# Output: 你好世界。

🔥 News

  • [2026.03.12] 🔥 We release FireRedASR2S technical report. See arXiv.
  • [2026.02.25] 🔥 We release FireRedASR2-LLM model weights. 🤗
  • [2026.02.12] 🔥 We release FireRedASR2S (FireRedASR2-AED, FireRedVAD, FireRedLID, and FireRedPunc) with model weights and inference code.

Evaluation

FireRedASR2-LLM achieves 2.89% average CER on 4 public Mandarin benchmarks and 11.55% on 19 public Chinese dialects and accents benchmarks, outperforming competitive baselines including Doubao-ASR, Qwen3-ASR, and Fun-ASR.

ModelMandarin (Avg CER%)Dialects (Avg CER%)
FireRedASR2-LLM2.8911.55
FireRedASR2-AED3.0511.67
Doubao-ASR3.6915.39
Qwen3-ASR3.7611.85

Citation

@article{xu2026fireredasr2s,
  title={FireRedASR2S: A State-of-the-Art Industrial-Grade All-in-One Automatic Speech Recognition System},
  author={Xu, Kaituo and Jia, Yan and Huang, Kai and Chen, Junjie and Li, Wenpeng and Liu, Kun and Xie, Feng-Long and Tang, Xu and Hu, Yao},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.10420},
  year={2026}
}

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

How it works

How audio & music work

Audio or textinputAudio modelrecognise / synthesiseText or audiooutputSpeech-to-text turns audio into text; text-to-speech and music models turn text into audio.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys fireredasr2-aed for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (fireredasr2-aed below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -F model="fireredasr2-aed" -F file=@audio.mp3

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