MiMo-Audio 7B: The Open-Source Voice Model That Learns New Tricks From Just a Few Clips

“ Imagine giving an AI three seconds of a podcast intro and having it continue the conversation—same host, same room tone, same energy—without ever being trained on that show. Xiaomi’s MiMo-Audio team open-sourced a 7-billion-parameter model that does exactly this (and more) after compressing 100 million hours of raw speech. Below is the full story, translated into plain English and kept strictly to the facts published in their paper, blog, and code. 1. What problem is MiMo-Audio trying to solve? Most voice AI tools today are one-trick ponies: A great text-to-speech (TTS) engine can’t transcribe. A solid speech-to-text (STT) model …