OSUM-Pangu: An Open-Source Multidimension Speech Understanding Foundation Model Built upon OpenPangu on Ascend NPUs
Yujie Liao, Xuelong Geng, Hongfei Xue, Shuiyuan Wang, Lei Xie
Recent advancements in Speech Large Language Models have significantly enhanced multi-dimensional speech understanding. However, the majority of high-performance frameworks are predominantly optimized for GPU centric ecosystems and proprietary backbones, creating a significant gap for deployment on non-CUDA computing infrastructures. In this paper, we present OSUM-Pangu, a fully open-source speech understanding foundation model developed on a completely non-CUDA software and hardware stack. By integrating an audio encoder with the openPangu-7B LLM backbone, we successfully implement the entire training and inference pipeline on the Ascend NPU platform. To facilitate efficient task alignment under non-CUDA resource constraints, we adopt a practical training process that sequentially bridges speech perception and user intent recognition. Experimental results demonstrate that OSUM-Pangu achieves task accuracy comparable to mainstream GPU-based models while maintaining robust natural language interaction capabilities. Our work provides a reproducible, non-CUDA baseline for the open-source speech community, promoting the independent evolution of multimodal intelligence.
Architecture
The overall architecture of OSUM-Pangu is shown below:
The model mainly consists of three components:
1. Speech Encoder
Whisper-medium
Responsible for extracting speech representations.
2. Adapter
Transforms acoustic features into tokens compatible with the LLM input space.
3. Intent-aware LLM
Responsible for:
- Parsing natural language instructions
- Identifying user intent
- Determining which speech task to execute
Training Strategy
We adopt a a three-stage training proces, illustrated below:
Stage 1: Speech Understanding Alignment
Goal: Equip the model with multi-task speech understanding capability.
Characteristics:
- Only speech-related modules are trained
- Establish strong acoustic representation ability
Stage 2: Intent Understanding
Goal: Enable the model to understand natural language user instructions.
Examples:
Please transcribe this audio.
Analyze the speaker's emotion.
Identify what event happens in the audio.
The model learns:
- Instruction semantic understanding
- Task mapping capability
Stage 3: Joint Instruction Tuning
In the final stage, joint training allows the model to:
- Automatically parse user instructions
- Identify task types
- Execute the corresponding speech understanding tasks
Without requiring fixed templates, such as:
What is the emotion of this speech?
Can you transcribe this audio?
What event happens in the audio?
The model can correctly understand and execute all of them.
Results
Dataset Configuration
Our experiments follow the task definitions of the OSUM framework. To maintain the linguistic reasoning capability of the backbone, we incorporate 2M entries from Alpaca-CoT for text-based interactions, with queries synthesized using CosyVoice 2. To evaluate the model's robustness in real-world scenarios, we utilize an Intent-Instruction Set (IIS) containing over 80k training samples and 4k test prompts, covering diverse colloquial user queries.
Multi-task Speech Understanding Performance
OSUM-Pangu demonstrates competitive performance across diverse tasks compared to GPU-based baselines Qwen2-Audio and OSUM, proving the effectiveness of the NPU-based pipeline.
| Task | Model | Public Test Set | Metric | Public Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASR | Qwen2-Audio | WER/CER (%) | 8.84 / 8.40 3.0 / 3.0 / 2.9 1.6 / 3.6 |
|
| OSUM | WenetSpeech(n/m) AISHELL-2(m/i/a) LibriSpeech (c/o) |
6.46 / 5.34 2.81 / 2.75 / 2.73 2.19 / 5.53 |
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| OSUM-Pangu | 7.40 / 10.49 3.01 / 2.98 / 2.95 3.51 / 8.36 |
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| VED | Qwen2-Audio | VocalSound | ACC (%) | 93.3 |
| OSUM | 82.58 | |||
| OSUM-Pangu | 73.04 | |||
| SER | Qwen2-Audio | MELD-test MER2023 |
ACC (%) | 55.3 / -- |
| OSUM | 53.38 / 86.43 | |||
| OSUM-Pangu | 36.40 / 89.19 | |||
| SGC | Qwen2-Audio | Kaggle-CommonVoice test | ACC (%) | 97.25 |
| OSUM | 99.41 | |||
| OSUM-Pangu | 97.48 | |||
| SAP | Qwen2-Audio | Kaggle-CommonVoice test | ACC (%) | 35.53 |
| OSUM | 76.52 | |||
| OSUM-Pangu | 83.31 |
Instruction Following Performance (IFR)
Instruction Following Rate (IFR) measures the ability of the model to parse natural language instructions and execute the corresponding tasks.
The metric is defined as:
where:
- $N_{correct}$ represents the number of correctly executed instructions
- $N_{total}$ represents the total number of evaluation samples Compared with mainstream open-source models, OSUM-Pangu achieves significantly better performance:
| Model | IFR (%) |
|---|---|
| Qwen2Audio-Instruct | 71.3 |
| OSUM-Pangu (Ours) | 90.2 |
Flexibility vs Accuracy
We evaluate whether natural language instructions (NL) degrade performance compared to fixed instructions (FI).
Results show that the model maintains strong flexibility while preserving task accuracy.
| Task | Test | FI | NL | $\Delta$ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASR | test-net/librispeech-clean | 7.36/3.64 | 7.40/3.51 | +0.04/-0.13 |
| SER | Testemotion | 67.39 | 67.41 | +0.02 |
| SGC | Testgender | 97.04 | 96.02 | -1.02 |
| SRWT | Testalign | 22.39 | 17.52 | -4.87 |
| SSR | Teststyle | 62.79 | 58.05 | -4.74 |
| VED | Testevent | 77.74 | 73.04 | -4.70 |
| SAP | Testage | 71.75 | 72.86 | +0.11 |
Conclusion:
Only minor performance drops appear in relatively niche tasks such as:
- Style recognition
- Event detection
Core tasks such as:
- ASR
- SER
- SAP
remain almost unchanged, validating the effectiveness of the three-stage training process.
Speech-to-Text Chat (STTC) Capability
We further evaluate the model in conversational reasoning scenarios.
OSUM-Pangu outperforms GLM-4-Voice on the TriviaQA and WebQ benchmarks.
| Model | LLaMA Q | TriviaQA | Web Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT-4o | 71.7 | 69.7 | 51.6 |
| GLM-4-Voice | 50.7 | 26.5 | 15.9 |
| DeepTalk | 59.7 | 27.5 | 23.1 |
| OSUM-EChat | 55.3 | 33.7 | 30.4 |
| OSUM-Pangu | 44.6 | 28.9 | 29.5 |
How to Use the OSUM-Pangu Framework for Training and Inference
Environment Setup
Before starting, please ensure that your device supports NPU and the Python environment is properly configured.
We recommend running the code on a Linux system.
If Conda is not installed, please refer to: https://blog.csdn.net/qq_41636123/article/details/130266232
# Create a new conda environment
conda create -n osum_pangu python=3.10
conda activate osum_pangu
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/ASLP-lab/OSUM-Pangu.git
cd OSUM-Pangu
# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt -i https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple
Model Download
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
snapshot_download(
repo_id="ASLP-lab/OSUM-Pangu",
local_dir="path",
local_dir_use_symlinks=False,
endpoint="https://hf-mirror.com"
)
Inference
This project provides batch inference scripts for all tasks under in :OSUM-Pangu/infer_code:
python infer_ASR.py
Training
To ensure a smooth training process, please follow the steps below.
1. Data Preparation
Data can be prepared in three formats:
raw、shard、combine
Recommended: shard format
After preparing the dataset, write the generated data index into the following configuration file:
OSUM-Pangu/conf/data_s2t_tmp.yaml
2. Start Training
Run the main training script:
OSUM-Pangu/train.sh