LLaSM: Large Language and Speech Model
Authors: name: Yu Shu, name: Siwei Dong, name: Guangyao Chen, name: Wenhao Huang, name: Ruihua Zhang, name: Daochen Shi, name: Qiqi Xiang, name: Yemin Shi

Multi-modal large language models have garnered significant interest
recently. Though, most of the works focus on vision-language multi-modal models
providing strong capabilities in following vision-and-language instructions.
However, we claim that speech is also an important modality through which
humans interact with the world. Hence, it is crucial for a general-purpose
assistant to be able to follow multi-modal speech-and-language instructions. In
this work, we propose Large Language and Speech Model (LLaSM). LLaSM is an
end-to-end trained large multi-modal speech-language model with cross-modal
conversational abilities, capable of following speech-and-language
instructions. Our early experiments show that LLaSM demonstrates a more
convenient and natural way for humans to interact with artificial intelligence.
Specifically, we also release a large Speech Instruction Following dataset
LLaSM-Audio-Instructions. Code and demo are available at
https://github.com/LinkSoul-AI/LLaSM and
https://huggingface.co/spaces/LinkSoul/LLaSM. The LLaSM-Audio-Instructions
dataset is available at
https://huggingface.co/datasets/LinkSoul/LLaSM-Audio-Instructions.