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LFM2.5-Audio-JP

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LFM2.5-Audio-JP is an open-weight audio or speech model from LiquidAI. LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-GGUF (GGUF) weighs 2.9 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • LFM2.5-Audio-JP is a 1.5B parameter audio-to-audio model developed by LiquidAI for Japanese language tasks.
  • It supports speech recognition, text-to-speech, and interleaved audio-text generation, and is distributed as GGUF quantizations for use with llama.cpp.
  • The model is licensed under the LFM Open License v1.0.

Summary of the LiquidAI/LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-GGUF model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byLiquidAI
Released2026-05-27
VRAM2.9 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-GGUF (GGUF)

2.9 GBweights, file size
1.6 GBruntime overhead
CardOne streamMemory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

Builds

Sizes, precisions & builds

BuildParamsPrecisionWeightsSmallest setup
LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-GGUF (above) ↗
4 builds: Q4_0 853 MB … F32 5.7 GB
—GGUF 2.9 GBRTX 3060 12 GB
LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP ↗ 1.5BBF16 3.3 GBRTX 3060 12 GB

From the model card

What LiquidAI says about LFM2.5-Audio-JP

Read the model card

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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

FileQuantizationSize
LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-F32.ggufF32 (language model)4.4 GB
LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-F16.ggufF16 (language model)2.2 GB
LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-Q8_0.ggufQ8_0 (language model)1.2 GB
LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-Q4_0.ggufQ4_0 (language model)664 MB
mmproj-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-F32.ggufF32 (audio encoder / multimodal projector)695 MB
mmproj-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-F16.ggufF16 (audio encoder / multimodal projector)413 MB
mmproj-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-Q8_0.ggufQ8_0 (audio encoder / multimodal projector)280 MB
mmproj-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-Q4_0.ggufQ4_0 (audio encoder / multimodal projector)210 MB
vocoder-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-F32.ggufF32 (vocoder / audio detokenizer)739 MB
vocoder-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-F16.ggufF16 (vocoder / audio detokenizer)370 MB
vocoder-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-Q8_0.ggufQ8_0 (vocoder / audio detokenizer)197 MB
vocoder-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-Q4_0.ggufQ4_0 (vocoder / audio detokenizer)104 MB
tokenizer-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-F32.ggufF32 (audio tokenizer)268 MB
tokenizer-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-F16.ggufF16 (audio tokenizer)134 MB
tokenizer-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-Q8_0.ggufQ8_0 (audio tokenizer)72 MB
tokenizer-LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B-JP-Q4_0.ggufQ4_0 (audio tokenizer)46 MB

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.


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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}
}

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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.
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