LFM2.5-Audio-JP

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LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP

This repository contains GGUF quantizations of LiquidAI/LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP for use with llama.cpp.

Available files

Runners

runners folder contains pre-built binaries for various architectures:

• llama-liquid-audio-cli
• llama-liquid-audio-server

🏃 How to run LFM2.5-Audio-JP

CLI

Set env variables.

export CKPT=/path/to/LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-GGUF
export INPUT_WAV=/path/to/input.wav
export OUTPUT_WAV=/path/to/output.wav

ASR (audio -> text)

./llama-liquid-audio-cli -m $CKPT/LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-Q4_0.gguf -mm $CKPT/mmproj-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-Q4_0.gguf -mv $CKPT/vocoder-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-Q4_0.gguf --tts-speaker-file $CKPT/tokenizer-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-Q4_0.gguf -sys "Perform ASR in japanese." --audio $INPUT_WAV

TTS (text -> audio)

./llama-liquid-audio-cli -m $CKPT/LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-Q4_0.gguf -mm $CKPT/mmproj-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-Q4_0.gguf -mv $CKPT/vocoder-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-Q4_0.gguf --tts-speaker-file $CKPT/tokenizer-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-Q4_0.gguf -sys "Perform TTS in japanese." -p "こんにちは、お元気ですか？" --output $OUTPUT_WAV

Interleaved (audio/text -> audio + text)

./llama-liquid-audio-cli -m $CKPT/LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-Q4_0.gguf -mm $CKPT/mmproj-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-Q4_0.gguf -mv $CKPT/vocoder-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-Q4_0.gguf --tts-speaker-file $CKPT/tokenizer-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-Q4_0.gguf -sys "Respond with interleaved text and audio." --audio $INPUT_WAV --output $OUTPUT_WAV

Server

Start server

export CKPT=/path/to/LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-GGUF
./llama-liquid-audio-server -m $CKPT/LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-Q4_0.gguf -mm $CKPT/mmproj-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-Q4_0.gguf -mv $CKPT/vocoder-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-Q4_0.gguf --tts-speaker-file $CKPT/tokenizer-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-Q4_0.gguf

Use liquid_audio_chat.py script to communicate with the server.

uv run liquid_audio_chat.py

Source Code for Runners

Runners are built from https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/18641.

📬 Contact

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License

The code in this repository and associated weights are licensed under the LFM Open License v1.0.

The code for the audio encoder is based on Nvidia NeMo, licensed under Apache 2.0, and the canary-180m-flash checkpoint, licensed under CC-BY 4.0. To simplify dependency resolution, we also ship the Python code of Kyutai Mimi, licensed under the MIT License. We also redistribute weights for Kyutai Mimi, licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Citation

@article{liquidai2025lfm2,
 title={LFM2 Technical Report},
 author={Liquid AI},
 journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.23404},
 year={2025}
}