MGM-Omni: Scaling Omni LLMs to Personalized Long-Horizon Speech

Wang, Chengyao, Zhong, Zhisheng, Peng, Bohao, Yang, Senqiao, Liu, Yuqi, Gui, Haokun, Xia, Bin, Li, Jingyao, Yu, Bei, Jia, Jiaya

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence 

Figure 1: MGM-Omni is an advanced Omni LLM for omnimodal understanding, long-form understanding, long-form speech generation and zero-shot voice clone. It can comprehend audio inputs exceeding 60 minutes and produce consistent, high-quality speech outputs longer than 10 minutes. Unlike cascaded pipelines that isolate speech synthesis, MGM-Omni adopts a "brain-mouth" design with a dual-track, token-based architecture that cleanly decouples multimodal reasoning from real-time speech generation. This design enables efficient cross-modal interaction and low-latency, streaming speech generation. For understanding, a unified training strategy coupled with a dual audio encoder design enables long-form audio perception across diverse acoustic conditions. For generation, a chunk-based parallel decoding scheme narrows the text speech token-rate gap, accelerating inference and supporting streaming zero-shot voice cloning with stable timbre over extended durations. Compared to concurrent work, MGM-Omni achieves these capabilities with markedly data-efficient training. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MGM-Omni outperforms existing open source models in preserving timbre identity across extended sequences, producing natural and context-aware speech, and achieving superior long-form audio and omnimodal understanding. MGM-Omni establishes an efficient, end-to-end paradigm for omnimodal understanding and controllable, personalised long-horizon speech generation.