What are the advantages of Step-Audio-R1.1 end-to-end audio inference compared to ASR+LLM links?

Step-Audio-R1.1 wins the Speech Reasoning ranking, taking into account both deep reasoning and real-time

Step-Audio-R1.1 was announced and ranked first in Artificial Analysis's Speech Reasoning list. It achieved an accuracy rate of about 96.4% in the BigB...