Qwen Team: Thinker-Talker streaming multimodal architecture

What changed

Separated text reasoning and speech generation into end-to-end connected Thinker and Talker modules, with time-aligned audiovisual positions and streaming speech decoding.

Scientific scope

Separated text reasoning and speech generation into end-to-end connected Thinker and Talker modules, with time-aligned audiovisual positions and streaming speech decoding. Original2.5Omni architecture, not invention of generic multimodal modeling or speech synthesis. Later3Omni codec-frame changes and3.5ARIA alignment are separate deltas, not backdated. Quality and latency remain source-reported.

Evidence

The linked original sources describe the stated contribution and its evidence limits. WRS has not independently rerun the experiments or certified a proof. Original2.5Omni architecture, not invention of generic multimodal modeling or speech synthesis. Later3Omni codec-frame changes and3.5ARIA alignment are separate deltas, not backdated. Quality and latency remain source-reported.

Contributors

• Source-listed authors and technical contributors · SCIENCE: Source-listed authors or explicitly credited technical contributors for the cited versions. Family entries retain source-specific attribution; a combined list is not one original-paper byline or equal individual work. Names alone do not establish resolved identities.

• Qwen2.5-Omni Technical Report
• Qwen Team: Thinker-Talker streaming multimodal architecture — official method source

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