KugelAudio-0-Open GGUF

GGUF conversions of kugelaudio/kugelaudio-0-open for use with CrispASR.

Files

Both files contain the inference-only components (--no-encoders): Qwen2.5-7B language model, 4-layer DiT diffusion head, acoustic connector, and acoustic VAE decoder. Encoder weights (for voice cloning from raw audio) are omitted since the open-source release only supports pre-encoded voices.

Architecture

Text → Qwen2.5-7B (28L, 3584d, GQA 28/4)
  → AR decode with constrained token set
  → 4-layer DiT diffusion head (AdaLN, SwiGLU, v-prediction)
  → 20-step SDE-DPMSolver++ (cosine beta schedule)
  → Acoustic VAE decoder (6-stage ConvNeXt, 3200x upsample)
  → 24 kHz mono PCM

• 23 languages: en, de, fr, es, it, pt, nl, pl, ru, uk, cs, ro, hu, sv, da, fi, no, el, bg, sk, hr, sr, tr
• License: MIT
• Output: 24 kHz mono PCM
• Classifier-free guidance: cfg_scale=3.0 (default)

Usage with CrispASR

# Synthesize speech
crispasr --backend kugelaudio \
  -m kugelaudio-0-open-q4_k.gguf \
  --tts "Hello, this is a test of the speech synthesis system." \
  --tts-output output.wav

# With auto-download
crispasr --backend kugelaudio -m auto \
  --tts "Hallo, dies ist ein Test." -l de

Conversion

Converted with:

python models/convert-kugelaudio-to-gguf.py \
  --input kugelaudio/kugelaudio-0-open \
  --output kugelaudio-0-open-f16.gguf \
  --no-encoders --type f16

crispasr-quantize kugelaudio-0-open-f16.gguf kugelaudio-0-open-q4_k.gguf q4_k

Original Model

• Paper/repo: kugelaudio/kugelaudio-0-open
• Architecture: Based on Microsoft VibeVoice — hybrid AR + diffusion TTS
• Parameters: ~7B (Qwen2.5-7B backbone)
• Training data: Undisclosed
• License: MIT