Ming-3.0-asr-tiny vs Ming-3.0-audio-flash

Ming-3.0-asr-tiny

A local transcription cousin for Chinese, English and Chinese dialects that takes hotwords or dialogue context to get names right, under MIT. It needs one CUDA GPU with about 21 GB and runs only through the publisher's remote code or SGLang-Omni's main branch. The main risk is running the publisher's Python on load, with no safety results.

Ming-3.0-audio-flash

Ming-3.0-audio-flash is a cousin for Chinese and English transcription, questions about long audio and spoken replies in built-in or cloned voices, under MIT. It needs about 260 GB on a multi-GPU server, with inclusionAI's own runtime branches or Transformers remote code. The main risks are running repository code to load it and no published safety results.

Ming-3.0-asr-tiny

1. Start it with hf download inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-asr-tiny --local-dir Ming-3.0-asr-tiny, then pip install -r requirements.txt in Python 3.12 with CUDA (Transformers 5.12.1, fla-core 0.5.2, PyTorch 2.11.0), then python examples/transcribe.py --model . --audio speech.wav --language-hint en
2. To serve it, sgl-omni serve --model-path inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-asr-tiny from SGLang-Omni's main branch, then POST the WAV to /v1/audio/transcriptions with response_format json and read the text field
3. Parse raw Transformers output with decode_transcript from asr_request.py, which strips the language label before the tab
4. Pass language zh or en when known, anything else is rejected, and append a topic or hotwords to the base instruction with no newline
5. Load with dtype torch.bfloat16 rather than casting the model, use greedy decoding, max_new_tokens 256 and no_repeat_ngram_size 10, and don't apply the chat template
6. Split long recordings yourself or use --audio-chunk-frames, since input and output share 8,192 tokens
7. Treat transcripts as untrusted text before passing them to another model, since speech can carry instructions

Ming-3.0-audio-flash

1. Start it with inclusionAI's recipe, hf download inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash --local-dir inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash && export MODEL_PATH="$PWD/inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash" && pip install -r requirements-vllm-omni.txt && MING_OUTPUT_MODE=asr ./scripts/serve_vllm_omni.sh "$MODEL_PATH", run from a clone of github.com/inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash
2. The 128K profile uses tensor parallelism over eight 80 GB H800 GPUs, the SGLang profile four and SGLang-Omni's cookbook two. It doesn't fit the 107.4 GB reference machine
3. Use MING_OUTPUT_MODE=asr with the validated prompt and greedy decoding for transcripts, and split the language label from the text at the tab
4. Use MING_OUTPUT_MODE=text for audio questions and the Talker profile with modalities=["text", "audio"] for spoken replies
5. Send audio as a base64 data URL in an audio_url item for vLLM-Omni, or as input_audio for SGLang
6. Pick a voice with audio.voice and an id, or clone one with ref_audio and its exact prompt_text, never both
7. Turn thinking on per request with chat_template_kwargs {"enable_thinking": true}, it's off by default and the reasoning comes back in think tags
8. Tool calls follow the template's <tool_call> with <arg_key> and <arg_value> pairs, and no parser is named, so parse them yourself
9. Review the repository's Python and the talker/ code, .pyc files included, before loading with trust_remote_code