ByteDance has unveiled SeedRealtime, a native audio-visual large language model that processes audio, video, and text in a unified architecture to enable continuous, full-duplex interactions.
Unlike traditional voice assistants that rely on separate speech recognition, language, and text-to-speech modules, SeedRealtime performs perception, reasoning, and response generation simultaneously, reducing latency and preserving conversational context.
The model also determines conversational turn-taking internally instead of depending on external voice activity detection. ByteDance says SeedRealtime powers a natural "watch, listen, and speak" experience and is being integrated into Doubao and other applications, marking a significant step toward real-time multimodal AI assistants.
