OpenOmni: Pioneering Open-Source Multimodal AI with Real-Time Emotional Speech Synthesis Why Multimodal AI Matters in Modern Technology In today’s interconnected digital landscape, single-modality AI systems struggle to handle complex real-world scenarios. Imagine a virtual assistant that seamlessly processes images, voice messages, and text inputs while generating emotionally nuanced verbal responses. This is the core problem OpenOmni solves—achieving deep integration of visual, auditory, and textual understanding. As the first fully open-source end-to-end omnimodal large language model (LLM), OpenOmni builds on the Qwen2-7B architecture and delivers three groundbreaking capabilities through innovative progressive alignment: Cross-Modal Comprehension: Unified processing of images, speech, and text …