NVIDIA Audex 30B: The Open-Source Audio AI That Speaks, Listens, and Generates in One Model

Just yesterday, NVIDIA dropped something that makes most audio AI tools look like they're from a different decade. Nemotron-Labs-Audex-30B-A3B — or simply Audex — is a unified audio-text LLM that does it all: speech recognition, language translation, text-to-speech, and audio generation, all inside a single transformer decoder. Why Audex Matters Most audio AI systems are a Frankenstein of separate models — one for ASR, one for TTS, one for translation, one for music generation. Each one has its…