Audio Flamingo Next: Next-Generation Open Audio-Language Models for Speech, Sound, and Music

arXiv:2604.10905v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Audio Flamingo Next (AF-Next), the next-generation and most capable large audio-language model in the Audio Flamingo series, designed to advance understanding and reasoning over speech, environmental sounds and music. Compared to Audio Flamingo 3, AF-Next introduces: (i) a stronger foundational audio-language model that significantly improves accuracy across diverse audio understanding tasks; (ii) scalable strategies for constructing l