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    facebookresearch/sam-audio

    The repository provides code for running inference with the Meta Segment Anything Audio Model (SAM-Audio), links for downloading the trained model checkpoints, and example notebooks that show how to use the model.

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    Python
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    3.7K stars
    332 forks
    3.7K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 3, 2026
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    The project lists 8 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a foundation model for isolating specific sounds in audio using text, visual, or temporal prompts.
    • Enables flexible sound separation from complex audio mixtures using natural language, video cues, or time spans for precise audio segmentation.
    • Use for isolating speech or music tracks from mixed audio recordings in multimedia editing workflows.
    • Use for enhancing audio-visual applications by separating sounds linked to visual objects in videos.
    • Use for analyzing environmental sound events by specifying time ranges to extract target sounds from long audio streams.

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    From the README

    Segment Anything Model for Audio [Blog] [Paper] [Demo]

    SAM-Audio is a foundation model for isolating any sound in audio using text, visual, or temporal prompts. It can separate specific sounds from complex audio mixtures based on natural language descriptions, visual cues from video, or time spans.

    SAM-Audio and the Judge model crucially rely on Perception-Encoder Audio-Visual (PE-AV), which you can read more about here

    ⚠️ Before using SAM Audio, please request access to the checkpoints on the SAM Audio Hugging Face repo. Once accepted, you need to be authenticated to download the checkpoints. You can do this by running the following steps (e.g. hf auth login after generating an access token.)

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