Tencent's Hunyuan team launched Hy Realtime, a real-time speech model that delivers strong speech understanding, instruction-following and humanlike expression, and adds agentic tool invocation and singing capabilities. Hy Realtime is live in Yuanbao

2026-11-13

Tencent's Hunyuan team launched Hy Realtime, a real-time speech model that delivers strong speech understanding, instruction-following and humanlike expression, and adds agentic tool invocation and singing capabilities. Hy Realtime is live in Yuanbao voice calls and Tencent customer service and will be offered via Tencent Cloud APIs; the model can use dialogue context and user intent to decide whether to perform web searches, invoke tools and generate unified responses.