This major release extends SpeechBrain's support for SpeechLLMs and introduces several new features, recipes, and improvements.

Highlights

• Feature Caching — Save extracted features (e.g. wav2vec embeddings) to disk and load them on the fly, skipping recomputation. This powers our first ASR SpeechLLM recipe on LibriSpeech, enabling LLM-based training with pre-computed embeddings.
• New Recipes — SpeechLLM for ASR and translation, streaming SSL, FocalCodec, and SENSE models.

Along with internal improvements and bug fixes. Here follows a changelog of the main changes (omitting some minor bugfixes):

What's Changed

• Reforging LLaMA lobe (code from Samsung AI Center-Cambridge) by @TParcollet in #2850
• Streaming recipe for BestRQ by @Chaanks in #2790
• Librilight data preparation for SpeechBrain SSL (code from Samsung AI Center Cambridge) by @shucongzhang in #2765
• Alignment with CTC ASR models powered by k2. by @ZhaoZeyu1995 in #2772
• SpeechLLM (with LLaMA) and Conformer recipe for speech translation on CoVoST (Code from Samsung AI Center Cambridge) by @TParcollet in #2865
• Feature caching proposal: CachedDynamicItem by @pplantinga in #2985
• Adapting transducer greedy decoding by @younessdkhissi in #2975
• Replace torchaudio I/O with soundfile-based audio_io wrapper by @Copilot in #2989
• FocalCodec [NeurIPS 2025] by @lucadellalib in #3000
• Caching: add compression + filename + closing/loading by @Adel-Moumen in #3005
• Implement per-key padding configuration in PaddedBatch by @Adel-Moumen in #3008
• SpeechLLM LibriSpeech recipe by @Adel-Moumen in #2885
• Remove CTC CUDA + Move transducer loss in integrations by @Adel-Moumen in #3028
• Adding SENSE models by @MaryemBouziane in #2998

New Contributors

• @emmanuel-ferdman made their first contribution in #2900
• @ofiryaish made their first contribution in #2871
• @omidiu made their first contribution in #2923
• @svecjan made their first contribution in #2934
• @nouranali made their first contribution in #2855
• @OscarFree made their first contribution in #2988
• @younessdkhissi made their first contribution in #2975
• @jordanozang made their first contribution in #2982
• @jrochdi made their first contribution in #2947
• @seohyunjun made their first contribution in #2996
• @Daheer made their first contribution in #3022
• @raotnameh made their first contribution in #2617
• @Mr-Neutr0n made their first contribution in #3029
• @georgesabr made their first contribution in #3038
• @MaryemBouziane made their first contribution in #2998

Full Changelog: v1.0.3...v1.1.0

What's Changed

• Fix broken links due to change in voxlingua107 location by @pplantinga in #2877
• Reforging LLaMA lobe (code from Samsung AI Center-Cambridge) by @TParcollet in #2850
• Attempt to fix self.device for AMP by @Adel-Moumen in #2882
• fix convolutions docstrings by @gfdb in #2883
• Attempt fix for input_norm test by @pplantinga in #2887
• Fix dropout at inference by @Adel-Moumen in #2889
• Avoid running tests on draft PRs by @pplantinga in #2890
• Fix input normalization and global normalization variance calculation by @pplantinga in #2835
• Bump version of pyroomacoustics for recipes/DNS/enhancement by @rogiervd in #2899
• Fix argument to rec_loss in (Variational)AutoencoderLoss (from Samsung AI Center Cambridge) by @rogiervd in #2902
• Ensure that x is not unbound in WordEmbeddingEncoder (from Samsung, AI Center, Cambridge) by @rogiervd in #2905
• Fix bug in ModuleList.insert (from Samsung, AI Center, Cambridge) by @rogiervd in #2903
• Fix bug constructing ValueError in Conv2d (from Samsung, AI Center, Cambridge) by @rogiervd in #2904
• Make types correct (from Samsung, AI Center, Cambridge) by @rogiervd in #2912
• Use correct signature for torch.tensor.type() (from Samsung, AI Center, Cambridge) by @rogiervd in #2910
• Update handling of dtype in read_pkl to torch.Tensor (from Samsung, AI Center, Cambridge) by @rogiervd in #2907
• Make arpa_to_fst work when arguments are str (from Samsung, AI Center, Cambridge) by @rogiervd in #2919
• Make f_max integer (from Samsung, AI Center, Cambridge) by @rogiervd in #2918
• Account for all combinations of arguments in IterativeCSVWriter.write (from Samsung, AI Center, Cambridge) by @rogiervd in #2916
• Migrate to modern Python Logger API by @emmanuel-ferdman in #2900
• Do not forget to raise ValueError (from Samsung, AI Center, Cambridge) by @rogiervd in #2909
• Replace axis= by dim= for calls to Torch (from Samsung, AI Center, Cambridge) by @rogiervd in #2913
• Remove unused value (from Samsung, AI Center, Cambridge) by @rogiervd in #2914
• Make Scores.repr actually return something by @rogiervd in #2897
• Remove deprecated abstractproperty (from Samsung, AI Center, Cambridge) by @rogiervd in #2915
• Use "cls" instead of "self" in classmethod by @rogiervd in #2908
• Change location from which to import tqdm by @rogiervd in #2921
• Fix type annotations (from Samsung, AI Center, Cambridge) by @rogiervd in #2911
• Add test for various length mask functions (code from Samsung, AI Center, Cambridge) by @rogiervd in #2894
• Change test for make_padding_mask to expose mistake by @rogiervd in #2895
• fix bug in reverberate with rescale_amp by @ofiryaish in #2871
• docs: Fix contributing.md by @omidiu in #2923
• Renaming largescale ASR to the Loquacious Set by @TParcollet in #2928
• Move files with optional dependencies to integrations folder by @pplantinga in #2782
• Streaming recipe for BestRQ by @Chaanks in #2790
• Librilight data preparation for SpeechBrain SSL (code from Samsung AI Center Cambridge) by @shucongzhang in #2765
• Re-ran tutorial to remove errors by @pplantinga in #2925
• Create FetchConfig for standardizing use of fetch by @pplantinga in #2828
• Fix issue 'GlobalNorm with DDP' by @svecjan in #2934
• Bump torch from 2.6.0 to 2.7.1 in /docs by @dependabot[bot] in #2939
• Solves #2846 Refactor run_opts into a @DataClass by @nouranali in #2855
• Make run_on_main and main_process_only return the result to all proce… by @rogiervd in #2943
• Saveable Generator: initial import by @flexthink in #2937
• Alignment with CTC ASR models powered by k2. by @ZhaoZeyu1995 in #2772
• Fix forced alignment tutorial link to google colab by @pplantinga in #2951
• Fix missing defaults in run options by @pplantinga in #2952
• Add recipe installation instructions to installation.md by @pplantinga in #2948
• SpeechLLM (with LLaMA) and Conformer recipe for speech translation on CoVoST (Code from Samsung AI Center Cambridge) by @TParcollet in #2865
• Use epoch loop loader for transfer to correctly handle end_of_epoch by @pplantinga in #2965
• fix unnecessary pos_emb for RoPE by @shucongzhang in #2963
• Adopt pyproject and move to Ruff by @TParcollet in #2946
• Update version constraints for torch and torchaudio by @Adel-Moumen in #2978
• Bump torch from 2.7.1 to 2.8.0 in /docs by @dependabot[bot] in #2976
• Fix #2973 bug with period in path by @pplantinga in #2974
• Bandaid fix for torchaudio 2.9+ compatibility by @OscarFree in #2988
• Feature caching proposal: CachedDynamicItem by @pplantinga in #2985
• Adapting transducer greedy decoding by @younessdkhissi in #2975
• Fix for Tracing ECAPA-TDNN Embedding Model by @jordanozang in #2982
• fix speed perturb inversion by @gfdb in #2994
• Add functions for running code once per node by @pplantinga in #2992
• Replace torchaudio I/O with soundfile-based audio_io wrapper by @Copilot in #2989
• SGMSE Voicebank Speech Enhancement Recipe by @jrochdi in #2947
• Update versions of python due to 3.9 EOL by @pplantinga in #3001
• fix issue with --arg value and --arg=value by @Adel-Moumen in #2999
• Rename FetchConfig.use_auth_token to token and pass token to HF hub by @seohyunjun in #2996
• FocalCodec [NeurIPS 2025] by @lucadellalib in #3000
• Caching: add compression + filename + closing/loading by @Adel-Moumen in #3005
• HDF5 integration not loading/caching etc. by @Adel-Moumen in #3007
• Fix local_rank when using single process by @Adel-Moumen in #3006
• Implement per-key padding configuration in PaddedBatch by @Adel-Moumen in #3008
• Add init files so pages get picked up for docs by @pplantinga in #3011
• ksponspeech remove by @Adel-Moumen in #3013
• Replace deprecated torch.cuda.amp.custom_fwd with torch.amp.custom_fw by @omidiu in #2922
• Fix duplicate mic position in beamforming tutorial by @Adel-Moumen in #3019
• Fix text_file assignment - SentencePiece by @pplantinga in #3016
• Update CI requirements by @Adel-Moumen in #3023
• add tests + doc + fix recipes + new get_available_cpu_count fn by @Adel-Moumen in #3025
• Fix typo in literature reference by @Daheer in #3022
• Update scorer.py by @raotnameh in #2617
• SpeechLLM LibriSpeech recipe by @Adel-Moumen in #2885
• Remove CTC CUDA + Move transducer loss in integrations by @Adel-Moumen in #3028
• Add missing mean_stat_per_model method to StatObject_SB by @Mr-Neutr0n in #3029
• support torch>=2.9.0 by @eschmidbauer in #3032
• Fix mutable default arguments in function signatures by @Mr-Neutr0n in #3034
• Fix author name typo: Abous-Rjeili → Abou-Rjeili by @georgesabr in #3038
• Adding SENSE models by @MaryemBouziane in #2998
• Recipe tests new release by @Adel-Moumen in #3042
• v1.0.4 Dev -> Main by @Adel-Moumen in #3044

New Contributors

• @emmanuel-ferdman made their first contribution in #2900
• @ofiryaish made their first contribution in #2871
• @omidiu made their first contribution in #2923
• @svecjan made their first contribution in #2934
• @nouranali made their first contribution in #2855
• @OscarFree made their first contribution in #2988
• @younessdkhissi made their first contribution in #2975
• @jordanozang made their first contribution in #2982
• @jrochdi made their first contribution in #2947
• @seohyunjun made their first contribution in #2996
• @Daheer made their first contribution in #3022
• @raotnameh made their first contribution in #2617
• @Mr-Neutr0n made their first contribution in #3029
• @georgesabr made their first contribution in #3038
• @MaryemBouziane made their first contribution in #2998

Full Changelog: v1.0.3...v1.1.0