Audience
Developers, AI teams, and creators needing to build real-time voice agents, speech applications, transcription systems, and generative audio or music experiences
About StepAudio 3
StepAudio 3 is StepFun’s next-generation audio model family, built to understand, generate, and interact through voice, sound, and music. The lineup includes StepAudio 3 Realtime for natural full-duplex conversation, StepAudio 3 ASR for speech recognition, StepAudio 3 TTS for speech synthesis, StepAudio 3 Gen for general-purpose audio generation, and StepAudio 3 Music for long-form music creation. Realtime is designed around a continuous listen-converse-think-act loop, understanding not only words but also hesitation, laughter, emotion, pauses, backchannels, and interruptions. It can think while speaking, reason through harder questions without breaking conversational flow, and use tools to complete tasks once it understands the user’s intent. StepAudio 3 Gen unifies zero-shot TTS, voice design, vocal generation, sound effects, music, and mixed audio generation within one framework, while StepAudio 3 Music supports text-controlled songs, instrumentals, vocal arrangement, and more.
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StepAudio 3 Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does StepAudio 3 work with?
StepAudio 3 works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does StepAudio 3 support in their product?
StepAudio 3 supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does StepAudio 3 offer?
StepAudio 3 offers support via online.
Q: What type of training does StepAudio 3 provide?
StepAudio 3 provides training in the form of documentation.
