Model Architecture

We've extended Meta's Llama 3 model with a multimodal projector that converts audio directly into the high-dimensional space used by Llama 3. This direct coupling allows Ultravox to respond much more quickly than systems that combine separate ASR and LLM components. In the future this will also allow Ultravox to natively understand the paralinguistic cues of timing and emotion that are omnipresent in human speech.