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*This model was published in HF papers on 2025-08-26 and contributed to Hugging Face Transformers on 2026-02-06.*

# VibeVoice Acoustic Tokenizer



## Overview

[VibeVoice](https://huggingface.co/papers/2508.19205) is a novel framework for synthesizing high-fidelity, long-form speech with multiple speakers by employing a next-token diffusion approach within a Large Language Model (LLM) structure. It's designed to capture the authentic conversational "vibe" and is particularly suited for generating audio content like podcasts and multi-participant audiobooks.

One key feature of VibeVoice is the use of two continuous audio tokenizers, one for extracting acoustic features and another for semantic features.

A model checkpoint is available at [microsoft/VibeVoice-AcousticTokenizer](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/VibeVoice-AcousticTokenizer)

This model was contributed by [Eric Bezzam](https://huggingface.co/bezzam).

## Architecture

The architecture is a mirror-symmetric encoder-decoder structure. The encoder employs a hierarchical design with 7 stages of ConvNeXt-like blocks, which use 1D depth-wise causal convolutions for efficient streaming processing. Six downsampling layers achieve a cumulative 3200X downsampling rate from a 24kHz input, yielding 7.5 tokens/frames per second. Each encoder/decoder component has approximately 340M parameters, for a total of around 680M parameters The training objective follows that of [DAC](./dac), including its discriminator and loss designs.

Acoustic Tokenizer adopts the principles of a Variational Autoencoder (VAE). The encoder maps the input audio to the parameters of a latent distribution, namely the mean. Along with a fixed standard deviation, a latent vector is then sampled using the reparameterization trick. Please refer to the [technical report](https://huggingface.co/papers/2508.19205) for further details.


## Usage

Below is example usage to encode and decode audio:

```python
import torch
from scipy.io import wavfile

from transformers import AutoFeatureExtractor, VibeVoiceAcousticTokenizerModel
from transformers.audio_utils import load_audio_librosa


model_id = "microsoft/VibeVoice-AcousticTokenizer"

# load model
feature_extractor = AutoFeatureExtractor.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = VibeVoiceAcousticTokenizerModel.from_pretrained(model_id, device_map="auto")
print("Model loaded on device:", model.device)
print("Model dtype:", model.dtype)

# load audio
audio = load_audio_librosa(
    "https://huggingface.co/datasets/bezzam/vibevoice_samples/resolve/main/voices/en-Alice_woman.wav",
    sampling_rate=feature_extractor.sampling_rate,
)

# preprocess audio
inputs = feature_extractor(
    audio,
    sampling_rate=feature_extractor.sampling_rate,
    pad_to_multiple_of=3200,
).to(model.device, model.dtype)
print("Input audio shape:", inputs.input_values.shape)
# Input audio shape: torch.Size([1, 1, 224000])

with torch.no_grad():
    # set VAE sampling to False for deterministic output
    encoded_outputs = model.encode(inputs.input_values, sample=False)
    print("Latent shape:", encoded_outputs.latents.shape)
    # Latent shape: torch.Size([1, 70, 64])

    decoded_outputs = model.decode(**encoded_outputs)
    print("Reconstructed audio shape:", decoded_outputs.audio.shape)
    # Reconstructed audio shape: torch.Size([1, 1, 224000])

# Save audio
output_fp = "vibevoice_acoustic_tokenizer_reconstructed.wav"
wavfile.write(output_fp, feature_extractor.sampling_rate, decoded_outputs.audio.squeeze().float().cpu().numpy())
print(f"Reconstructed audio saved to : {output_fp}")
```

## Streaming

For streaming ASR or TTS, where cached states need to be tracked, the `use_cache` parameter can be used when encoding or decoding audio:

```python
import torch
from scipy.io import wavfile

from transformers import AutoFeatureExtractor, VibeVoiceAcousticTokenizerModel
from transformers.audio_utils import load_audio_librosa


model_id = "microsoft/VibeVoice-AcousticTokenizer"

# load model
feature_extractor = AutoFeatureExtractor.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = VibeVoiceAcousticTokenizerModel.from_pretrained(model_id, device_map="auto")
print("Model loaded on device:", model.device)
print("Model dtype:", model.dtype)

# load audio
audio = load_audio_librosa(
    "https://huggingface.co/datasets/bezzam/vibevoice_samples/resolve/main/voices/en-Alice_woman.wav",
    sampling_rate=feature_extractor.sampling_rate,
)

# preprocess audio
inputs = feature_extractor(
    audio,
    sampling_rate=feature_extractor.sampling_rate,
    pad_to_multiple_of=3200,
).to(model.device, model.dtype)
print("Input audio shape:", inputs.input_values.shape)
# Input audio shape: torch.Size([1, 1, 224000])

# cache will be initialized after a first pass
encoder_cache = None
decoder_cache = None
with torch.no_grad():
    # set VAE sampling to False for deterministic output
    encoded_outputs = model.encode(inputs.input_values, sample=False, padding_cache=encoder_cache, use_cache=True)
    print("Latent shape:", encoded_outputs.latents.shape)
    # Latent shape: torch.Size([1, 70, 64])

    decoded_outputs = model.decode(encoded_outputs.latents, padding_cache=decoder_cache, use_cache=True)
    print("Reconstructed audio shape:", decoded_outputs.audio.shape)
    # Reconstructed audio shape: torch.Size([1, 1, 224000])

    # `padding_cache` can be extracted from the outputs for subsequent passes
    encoder_cache = encoded_outputs.padding_cache
    print("Number of cached encoder layers:", len(encoder_cache.per_layer_in_channels))
    # Number of cached encoder layers: 34
    decoder_cache = decoded_outputs.padding_cache
    print("Number of cached decoder layers:", len(decoder_cache.per_layer_in_channels))
    # Number of cached decoder layers: 34

# Save audio
output_fp = "vibevoice_acoustic_tokenizer_reconstructed.wav"
wavfile.write(output_fp, feature_extractor.sampling_rate, decoded_outputs.audio.squeeze().float().cpu().numpy())
print(f"Reconstructed audio saved to : {output_fp}")
```

## VibeVoiceAcousticTokenizerConfig

[[autodoc]] VibeVoiceAcousticTokenizerConfig

## VibeVoiceAcousticTokenizerEncoderConfig

[[autodoc]] VibeVoiceAcousticTokenizerEncoderConfig

## VibeVoiceAcousticTokenizerDecoderConfig

[[autodoc]] VibeVoiceAcousticTokenizerDecoderConfig

## VibeVoiceAcousticTokenizerFeatureExtractor

[[autodoc]] VibeVoiceAcousticTokenizerFeatureExtractor
    - __call__

## VibeVoiceAcousticTokenizerModel

[[autodoc]] VibeVoiceAcousticTokenizerModel
    - encode
    - decode
    - forward

## VibeVoiceAcousticTokenizerEncoderModel

[[autodoc]] VibeVoiceAcousticTokenizerEncoderModel
    - forward

## VibeVoiceAcousticTokenizerDecoderModel

[[autodoc]] VibeVoiceAcousticTokenizerDecoderModel
    - forward