diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 523233fb7..4ea472bdf 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -449,7 +449,9 @@ add_library(common2
             src/unicode.cpp
             src/unicode-data.cpp
             otherarch/utils.cpp
-            otherarch/utils.h)
+            otherarch/utils.h
+            tools/mtmd/mtmd-audio.cpp
+            tools/mtmd/mtmd-audio.h)
 target_include_directories(common2 PUBLIC . ./ggml/include ./ggml/src ./ggml/src/ggml-cpu ./include ./otherarch ./otherarch/tools ./vendor/stb ./vendor ./otherarch/sdcpp ./otherarch/sdcpp/thirdparty ./tools ./common)
 target_compile_features(common2 PUBLIC cxx_std_17) # don't bump
 target_link_libraries(common2 PRIVATE ggml ${LLAMA_EXTRA_LIBS})
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2f4c38ac2..dd93602e0 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -90,10 +90,10 @@ endif
 CUBLASLD_FLAGS =
 CUBLAS_OBJS =
 
-OBJS_FULL += ggml-alloc.o ggml-cpu-traits.o ggml-quants.o ggml-cpu-quants.o kcpp-quantmapper.o ggml-repack.o kcpp-repackmapper.o unicode.o unicode-data.o ggml-threading.o ggml-cpu-cpp.o gguf.o sgemm.o common.o sampling.o kcpputils.o
-OBJS_SIMPLE += ggml-alloc.o ggml-cpu-traits.o ggml-quants_noavx2.o ggml-cpu-quants.o kcpp-quantmapper_noavx2.o ggml-repack.o kcpp-repackmapper_noavx2.o unicode.o unicode-data.o ggml-threading.o ggml-cpu-cpp.o gguf.o sgemm_noavx2.o common.o sampling.o kcpputils.o
-OBJS_SIMPLER += ggml-alloc.o ggml-cpu-traits.o ggml-quants_noavx1.o ggml-cpu-quants.o kcpp-quantmapper_noavx1.o ggml-repack.o kcpp-repackmapper_noavx1.o unicode.o unicode-data.o ggml-threading.o ggml-cpu-cpp.o gguf.o sgemm_noavx1.o common.o sampling.o kcpputils.o
-OBJS_FAILSAFE += ggml-alloc.o ggml-cpu-traits.o ggml-quants_failsafe.o ggml-cpu-quants.o kcpp-quantmapper_failsafe.o ggml-repack.o kcpp-repackmapper_failsafe.o unicode.o unicode-data.o ggml-threading.o ggml-cpu-cpp.o gguf.o sgemm_failsafe.o common.o sampling.o kcpputils.o
+OBJS_FULL += ggml-alloc.o ggml-cpu-traits.o ggml-quants.o ggml-cpu-quants.o kcpp-quantmapper.o ggml-repack.o kcpp-repackmapper.o unicode.o unicode-data.o ggml-threading.o ggml-cpu-cpp.o gguf.o sgemm.o common.o sampling.o kcpputils.o mtmdaudio.o
+OBJS_SIMPLE += ggml-alloc.o ggml-cpu-traits.o ggml-quants_noavx2.o ggml-cpu-quants.o kcpp-quantmapper_noavx2.o ggml-repack.o kcpp-repackmapper_noavx2.o unicode.o unicode-data.o ggml-threading.o ggml-cpu-cpp.o gguf.o sgemm_noavx2.o common.o sampling.o kcpputils.o mtmdaudio.o
+OBJS_SIMPLER += ggml-alloc.o ggml-cpu-traits.o ggml-quants_noavx1.o ggml-cpu-quants.o kcpp-quantmapper_noavx1.o ggml-repack.o kcpp-repackmapper_noavx1.o unicode.o unicode-data.o ggml-threading.o ggml-cpu-cpp.o gguf.o sgemm_noavx1.o common.o sampling.o kcpputils.o mtmdaudio.o
+OBJS_FAILSAFE += ggml-alloc.o ggml-cpu-traits.o ggml-quants_failsafe.o ggml-cpu-quants.o kcpp-quantmapper_failsafe.o ggml-repack.o kcpp-repackmapper_failsafe.o unicode.o unicode-data.o ggml-threading.o ggml-cpu-cpp.o gguf.o sgemm_failsafe.o common.o sampling.o kcpputils.o mtmdaudio.o
 
 # OS specific
 ifeq ($(UNAME_S),Linux)
@@ -566,6 +566,8 @@ gguf.o: ggml/src/gguf.cpp ggml/include/gguf.h
 	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -c $< -o $@
 kcpputils.o: otherarch/utils.cpp otherarch/utils.h
 	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -c $< -o $@
+mtmdaudio.o: tools/mtmd/mtmd-audio.cpp tools/mtmd/mtmd-audio.h
+	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -c $< -o $@
 
 #these have special gpu defines
 ggml-backend_default.o: ggml/src/ggml-backend.cpp ggml/src/ggml-backend-impl.h ggml/include/ggml.h ggml/include/ggml-backend.h
diff --git a/expose.h b/expose.h
index cafa4bf90..e968d0a95 100644
--- a/expose.h
+++ b/expose.h
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 const int tensor_split_max = 16;
 const int images_max = 8;
+const int audio_max = 4;
 const int logprobs_max = 5;
 
 // match kobold's sampler list and order
@@ -83,6 +84,7 @@ struct generation_inputs
     const char * negative_prompt = nullptr;
     const float guidance_scale = 1;
     const char * images[images_max] = {};
+    const char * audio[audio_max] = {};
     const int max_context_length = 0;
     const int max_length = 0;
     const float temperature = 0.0f;
diff --git a/gpttype_adapter.cpp b/gpttype_adapter.cpp
index eabc7d0c4..20ca0483a 100644
--- a/gpttype_adapter.cpp
+++ b/gpttype_adapter.cpp
@@ -42,12 +42,13 @@
 #include "mpt_v3.cpp"
 #include "tools/mtmd/clip.h"
 #include "tools/mtmd/llava.h"
+#include "tools/mtmd/mtmd-audio.h"
 #include "common/common.h"
 
 //const
 const int extra_context_handle_fragmentation = 128;
-const int LLAVA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_A = -998; //alternate between both, changing when image changes
-const int LLAVA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_B = -999;
+const int MEDIA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_A = -998; //alternate between both, changing when image changes
+const int MEDIA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_B = -999;
 
 //shared
 std::string executable_path = "";
@@ -100,12 +101,14 @@ static llama_context * llama_ctx_v4 = nullptr;
 static llama_context * draft_ctx = nullptr; //will remain null if speculative is unused
 static llama_context * guidance_ctx = nullptr; //for classifier free guidance, will be null if unused
 
-static clip_ctx * clp_ctx = nullptr; //for llava
+static clip_ctx * clp_ctx_v = nullptr; //for llava
 static clip_image_u8 * clp_img_data = nullptr; //most recent image
-static std::vector<llava_image> llava_images;
-static std::vector<int> last_llava_mem; //for storing dummy tokens that will be consumed by llava
-static std::string llava_composite_image_signature = ""; //for identifying when the llava images change, we need to invalidate the cache
-static int current_llava_identifier = LLAVA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_A;
+static clip_ctx * clp_ctx_a = nullptr; //for audio multimodal
+static whisper_preprocessor::whisper_filters w_filters; //for audio processing
+static std::vector<media_object> media_objects;
+static std::vector<int> last_media_mem; //for storing dummy tokens that will be consumed by llava
+static std::string media_composite_image_signature = ""; //for identifying when the llava images change, we need to invalidate the cache
+static int current_media_identifier = MEDIA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_A;
 static int vision_max_res = 2048;
 
 static kcpp_params * kcpp_data = nullptr;
@@ -1803,8 +1806,8 @@ static bool kcpp_eval_image(llama_context * ctx_llama, float * img_embd, int num
             n_eval = n_batch;
         }
         float * embd = img_embd+i*n_embd;
-        kcpp_embd_batch llava_batch = kcpp_embd_batch(embd, n_eval, *n_past, use_mrope);
-        if (llama_decode(ctx_llama, llava_batch.batch)) {
+        kcpp_embd_batch media_batch = kcpp_embd_batch(embd, n_eval, *n_past, use_mrope);
+        if (llama_decode(ctx_llama, media_batch.batch)) {
             fprintf(stderr, "\n%s : failed to eval image\n", __func__);
             return false;
         }
@@ -2431,17 +2434,32 @@ ModelLoadResult gpttype_load_model(const load_model_inputs inputs, FileFormat in
                 /* use_gpu */   true,
                 /* verbosity */ static_cast<ggml_log_level>(1),
             });
-            clp_ctx = cres.ctx_v;
-            if(clp_ctx == nullptr) {
+            clp_ctx_v = cres.ctx_v;
+            clp_ctx_a = cres.ctx_a;
+            if(clp_ctx_v == nullptr && clp_ctx_a == nullptr) {
                 fprintf(stderr, "%s: error: failed to load mmproj model!\n", __func__);
                 return ModelLoadResult::FAIL;
             }
-            const int n_embd_clip = clip_n_mmproj_embd(clp_ctx);
+            const int n_embd_clip = clip_n_mmproj_embd(clp_ctx_v);
             const int n_embd_llm  = llama_n_embd(llamamodel);
+            if (clp_ctx_v && clp_ctx_a) {
+                int n_embd_a = clip_n_mmproj_embd(clp_ctx_a);
+                if (n_embd_clip != n_embd_a) {
+                    fprintf(stderr, "%s: mmproj embedding mismatch between Audio and Vision (%d and %d)! Make sure you use the correct mmproj file!\n", __func__,n_embd_clip, n_embd_a);
+                    return ModelLoadResult::FAIL;
+                }
+            }
             if (n_embd_clip != n_embd_llm) {
                 fprintf(stderr, "%s: mmproj embedding mismatch (%d and %d)! Make sure you use the correct mmproj file!\n", __func__,n_embd_clip, n_embd_llm);
                 return ModelLoadResult::FAIL;
             }
+            if(clp_ctx_a) //init audio
+            {
+                if (clip_has_whisper_encoder(clp_ctx_a)) {
+                    // TODO @ngxson : check if model n_mel is 128 or 80
+                    w_filters = whisper_precalc_filters::get_128_bins();
+                }
+            }
             clp_img_data = clip_image_u8_init();
         }
 
@@ -2454,7 +2472,7 @@ ModelLoadResult gpttype_load_model(const load_model_inputs inputs, FileFormat in
             {
                 printf("Error: Speculative decoding cannot be used with Recurrent models!\n");
             }
-            else if(clp_ctx!=nullptr)
+            else if(clp_ctx_v!=nullptr)
             {
                 printf("Error: Speculative decoding cannot be used with multimodal vision projectors!\n");
             }
@@ -2988,54 +3006,113 @@ int GetThreadsToUse(bool blasmode)
 }
 
 //this function prepares the clip embds for llava. it's only needed when images change
-static void PrepareLlavaEmbds(const int nctx, const std::vector<int> & llava_sep, const std::vector<int> & llava_intro)
+static void PrepareMediaEmbds(const int nctx, const std::vector<int> & media_sep, const std::vector<int> & media_intro)
 {
-    if(clp_ctx!=nullptr && clp_img_data!=nullptr)
+    bool vision_on = (clp_ctx_v != nullptr && clp_img_data != nullptr);
+    bool audio_on = (clp_ctx_a != nullptr);
+    if (vision_on || audio_on)
     {
-        int sepsize = llava_sep.size();
-        int introsize = llava_intro.size();
-        last_llava_mem.clear();
+        int sepsize = media_sep.size();
+        int introsize = media_intro.size();
+        last_media_mem.clear();
 
-        for(int i=0;i<llava_images.size();++i)
+        for(int i=0;i<media_objects.size();++i)
         {
-            std::string llava_image = llava_images[i].b64data;
-            const std::vector<uint8_t> image_buffer = kcpp_base64_decode(llava_image);
-            if (!clip_image_load_from_bytes(image_buffer.data(), image_buffer.size(), clp_img_data, vision_max_res))
+            std::string media_obj = media_objects[i].b64data;
+            const std::vector<uint8_t> media_data_buffer = kcpp_base64_decode(media_obj);
+            if(!media_objects[i].is_audio && vision_on)
             {
-                //failed to load image
-                printf("\nError: Clip image %d failed to load!",i);
-            }
-            else
-            {
-                if(debugmode==1 && !is_quiet)
+                //images
+                if (!clip_image_load_from_bytes(media_data_buffer.data(), media_data_buffer.size(), clp_img_data, vision_max_res))
                 {
-                    printf("\nCreating clip image embed...");
+                    //failed to load image
+                    printf("\nError: Clip image %d failed to load!",i);
                 }
-                llava_images[i].clp_image_tokens = 0;
-                if (!llava_image_embed_make_with_clip_img(clp_ctx, kcpp_data->n_threads, clp_img_data, &llava_images[i].clp_img_embd, &llava_images[i].clp_image_tokens)) {
-                    printf("\nError: Clip image %d failed to create embd!",i);
-                }
-                if(debugmode==1 && !is_quiet)
+                else
                 {
-                    printf("\nLLAVA Clip Embed %i used Tokens: %d",i,llava_images[i].clp_image_tokens);
+                    if(debugmode==1 && !is_quiet)
+                    {
+                        printf("\nCreating clip image embed...");
+                    }
+                    media_chunk chunk;
+                    if (!llava_image_embed_make_with_clip_img(clp_ctx_v, kcpp_data->n_threads, clp_img_data, &chunk.clp_img_embd, &chunk.clp_image_tokens)) {
+                        printf("\nError: Clip image %d failed to create embd!",i);
+                    }
+                    if(debugmode==1 && !is_quiet)
+                    {
+                        printf("\nVision Clip Embed %i used Tokens: %d",i,chunk.clp_image_tokens);
+                    }
+                    int cliptokensneeded = chunk.clp_image_tokens;
+                    if(cliptokensneeded>0 && cliptokensneeded < nctx)
+                    {
+                        int tokcnt = (i==0?(chunk.clp_image_tokens):(chunk.clp_image_tokens+sepsize));
+                        if(i==0)
+                        {
+                            tokcnt += introsize;
+                        }
+                        for(int n=0;n<tokcnt;++n)
+                        {
+                            last_media_mem.push_back(current_media_identifier);
+                        }
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        printf("\nWarning: LLAVA Image excluded - Context size too low or not enough clip tokens! (needed %d)\n",cliptokensneeded);
+                    }
+                    media_objects[i].mediachunks.push_back(chunk);
                 }
-                int cliptokensneeded = llava_images[i].clp_image_tokens;
+            } else if(media_objects[i].is_audio && audio_on) {
+                //  audio
+                GGML_ASSERT(w_filters.n_mel); // make sure we have filter preloaded
+
+                std::vector<float> pcmf32;
+                bool ok = kcpp_decode_audio_from_buf(media_data_buffer.data(), media_data_buffer.size(), 16000, pcmf32);
+                if (!ok) {
+                   printf("\nError: Clip audio %d failed to convert!",i);
+                   continue;
+                }
+
+                std::vector<whisper_preprocessor::whisper_mel> mel_spec_chunks;
+                ok = whisper_preprocessor::preprocess_audio(pcmf32.data(), pcmf32.size(), w_filters, mel_spec_chunks);
+                if (!ok) {
+                   printf("\nError: Clip audio %d failed to load!",i);
+                   continue;
+                }
+
+                // consider each mel_spec as a separate audio chunk
+                int total_chunk_tokens = 0;
+                for (auto & mel_spec : mel_spec_chunks) {
+                    media_chunk chunk;
+                    bool ok = audio_embd_make_with_clip_img(clp_ctx_a, kcpp_data->n_threads, mel_spec, &chunk.clp_img_embd, &chunk.clp_image_tokens);
+                    if (!ok) {
+                        printf("\nError: Clip audio chunk in %d failed to make embd!",i);
+                    } else {
+                        if(debugmode==1 && !is_quiet)
+                        {
+                            printf("\nAudio Clip Embed Chunk %i used Tokens: %d",i,chunk.clp_image_tokens);
+                        }
+                        total_chunk_tokens += chunk.clp_image_tokens;
+                        media_objects[i].mediachunks.push_back(chunk);
+                    }
+                }
+                int cliptokensneeded = total_chunk_tokens;
                 if(cliptokensneeded>0 && cliptokensneeded < nctx)
                 {
-                    int tokcnt = (i==0?(llava_images[i].clp_image_tokens):(llava_images[i].clp_image_tokens+sepsize));
+                    int tokcnt = (i==0?(cliptokensneeded):(cliptokensneeded+sepsize));
                     if(i==0)
                     {
                         tokcnt += introsize;
                     }
                     for(int n=0;n<tokcnt;++n)
                     {
-                        last_llava_mem.push_back(current_llava_identifier);
+                        last_media_mem.push_back(current_media_identifier);
                     }
                 }
                 else
                 {
-                    printf("\nWarning: LLAVA Image excluded - Context size too low or not enough clip tokens! (needed %d)\n",cliptokensneeded);
+                    printf("\nWarning: Audio Embd excluded - Context size too low or not enough clip tokens! (needed %d)\n",cliptokensneeded);
                 }
+
             }
         }
     }
@@ -3082,7 +3159,7 @@ generation_outputs gpttype_generate(const generation_inputs inputs)
     double time0 = 0, time1 = 0, time2 = 0;
     timer_start();
 
-    bool llava_images_changed = false;
+    bool media_data_changed = false;
 
     for(int x=0;x<inputs.stop_sequence_len;++x)
     {
@@ -3184,37 +3261,57 @@ generation_outputs gpttype_generate(const generation_inputs inputs)
     std::string negative_prompt = inputs.negative_prompt;
 
     //clear previous run llava embd memory, just-in-time free
-    for(int i=0;i<llava_images.size();++i)
+    for(int i=0;i<media_objects.size();++i)
     {
-        if(llava_images[i].b64data!="" && llava_images[i].clp_img_embd!=nullptr)
+        if(media_objects[i].b64data!="")
         {
-            free(llava_images[i].clp_img_embd);
-            llava_images[i].clp_img_embd = nullptr;
+            for(int j=0;j<media_objects[i].mediachunks.size();++j)
+            {
+                 if(media_objects[i].mediachunks[j].clp_img_embd!=nullptr)
+                 {
+                    free(media_objects[i].mediachunks[j].clp_img_embd);
+                    media_objects[i].mediachunks[j].clp_img_embd = nullptr;
+                 }
+            }
+            media_objects[i].mediachunks.clear();
         }
     }
-    llava_images.clear();
-    std::string new_llava_composite = "";
+    media_objects.clear();
+    std::string new_media_composite = "";
     for(int x=0;x<images_max;++x)
     {
         std::string item = inputs.images[x];
         if(item!="")
         {
-            llava_image lv;
+            media_object lv;
             lv.b64data = item;
-            llava_images.push_back(lv);
-            new_llava_composite += item;
+            lv.is_audio = false;
+            media_objects.push_back(lv);
+            new_media_composite += item;
         }
     }
-    if(llava_composite_image_signature!=new_llava_composite)
+    for(int x=0;x<audio_max;++x)
+    {
+        std::string item = inputs.audio[x];
+        if(item!="")
+        {
+            media_object lv;
+            lv.b64data = item;
+            lv.is_audio = true;
+            media_objects.push_back(lv);
+            new_media_composite += item;
+        }
+    }
+    if(media_composite_image_signature!=new_media_composite)
     {
         //images have changed. swap identifiers to force reprocessing
-        current_llava_identifier = (current_llava_identifier==LLAVA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_A?LLAVA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_B:LLAVA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_A);
-        llava_composite_image_signature = new_llava_composite;
+        current_media_identifier = (current_media_identifier==MEDIA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_A?MEDIA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_B:MEDIA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_A);
+        media_composite_image_signature = new_media_composite;
         if(debugmode==1 && !is_quiet)
         {
             printf("\nLLAVA images changed, existing cache invalidated");
         }
-        llava_images_changed = true;
+        media_data_changed = true;
     }
 
     kcpp_data->prompt = inputs.prompt;
@@ -3373,26 +3470,26 @@ generation_outputs gpttype_generate(const generation_inputs inputs)
     // tokenize the prompt
     std::vector<int> embd_inp;
     std::vector<int> embd_inp_mem; //for storing added memory
-    std::vector<int> llava_sep; //to separate between different llava images
-    std::vector<int> llava_intro; //to separate between different llava images
+    std::vector<int> media_sep; //to separate between different llava images
+    std::vector<int> media_intro; //to separate between different llava images
     std::vector<int> guidance_embd; //holds the guidance prompt
-    bool llava_embds_built = false;
+    bool media_embds_built = false;
 
     int32_t nctx = kcpp_data->n_ctx;
 
     TokenizeString(kcpp_data->prompt, embd_inp, file_format, add_bos_token);
     bool use_mrope = (file_format == FileFormat::GGUF_GENERIC && file_format_meta.model_architecture == GGUFArch::ARCH_QWEN2VL);
-    TokenizeString("\n\n", llava_sep, file_format, false);
-    TokenizeString("\nImages:\n", llava_intro, file_format, false);
+    TokenizeString("\n\n", media_sep, file_format, false);
+    TokenizeString("\nImages:\n", media_intro, file_format, false);
 
-    if(llava_composite_image_signature=="")
+    if(media_composite_image_signature=="")
     {
-        last_llava_mem.clear();
+        last_media_mem.clear();
     }
-    if(llava_images_changed)
+    if(media_data_changed)
     {
-        PrepareLlavaEmbds(nctx, llava_sep, llava_intro);
-        llava_embds_built = true;
+        PrepareMediaEmbds(nctx, media_sep, media_intro);
+        media_embds_built = true;
     }
 
     if(addedmemory!="")
@@ -3415,9 +3512,9 @@ generation_outputs gpttype_generate(const generation_inputs inputs)
         }
     }
 
-    if(last_llava_mem.size()>0) //stick the llava mem before the added mem
+    if(last_media_mem.size()>0) //stick the llava mem before the added mem
     {
-        if(last_llava_mem.size() + kcpp_data->n_predict + 4 > nctx)
+        if(last_media_mem.size() + kcpp_data->n_predict + 4 > nctx)
         {
             printf("\nWarning: Too many LLaVA tokens, max context exceeded! They will be ignored!\n");
         }
@@ -3433,7 +3530,7 @@ generation_outputs gpttype_generate(const generation_inputs inputs)
             }
 
             //append llava dummy tokens
-            embd_inp_mem.insert(embd_inp_mem.begin(), last_llava_mem.begin(), last_llava_mem.end());
+            embd_inp_mem.insert(embd_inp_mem.begin(), last_media_mem.begin(), last_media_mem.end());
             if (bos.size() > 0 && embd_inp_mem.size() > 0)
             {
                 embd_inp_mem.insert(embd_inp_mem.begin(), bos[0]);  //insert bos at front
@@ -4159,12 +4256,12 @@ generation_outputs gpttype_generate(const generation_inputs inputs)
             while ((int)embd_inp.size() > input_consumed)
             {
                 int currtoken = embd_inp[input_consumed];
-                if(currtoken==LLAVA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_A || currtoken==LLAVA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_B) //special llava token hit
+                if(currtoken==MEDIA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_A || currtoken==MEDIA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_B) //special llava token hit
                 {
-                    if(!llava_embds_built) //this should never happen! however, handle it anyway
+                    if(!media_embds_built) //this should never happen! however, handle it anyway
                     {
-                        PrepareLlavaEmbds(nctx, llava_sep, llava_intro);
-                        llava_embds_built = true;
+                        PrepareMediaEmbds(nctx, media_sep, media_intro);
+                        media_embds_built = true;
                         printf("\nSomehow vision embd was not prepared (maybe no fast forward), rebuilding it...\n");
                     }
 
@@ -4178,9 +4275,9 @@ generation_outputs gpttype_generate(const generation_inputs inputs)
                         //batch is empty, do image processing
                         int llavatokenscounted = 0;
                         int llavatokensevaled = 0;
-                        int sepsize = llava_sep.size();
-                        int introsize = llava_intro.size();
-                        while(input_consumed < embd_inp.size() && (embd_inp[input_consumed]==LLAVA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_A || embd_inp[input_consumed]==LLAVA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_B))
+                        int sepsize = media_sep.size();
+                        int introsize = media_intro.size();
+                        while(input_consumed < embd_inp.size() && (embd_inp[input_consumed]==MEDIA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_A || embd_inp[input_consumed]==MEDIA_TOKEN_IDENTIFIER_B))
                         {
                             if (!last_n_tokens.empty())
                             {
@@ -4191,13 +4288,13 @@ generation_outputs gpttype_generate(const generation_inputs inputs)
                             ++input_consumed;
                             ++llavatokenscounted;
                         }
-                        for(int i=0;i<llava_images.size();++i)
+                        for(int i=0;i<media_objects.size();++i)
                         {
                             //note: no handling for draft_ctx as we don't support vision for it
                             if(introsize>0 && i==0)
                             {
                                 //added at the start of everything
-                                kcpp_embd_batch batch = kcpp_embd_batch(llava_intro, n_past, use_mrope, false);
+                                kcpp_embd_batch batch = kcpp_embd_batch(media_intro, n_past, use_mrope, false);
                                 auto evr = llama_decode(llama_ctx_v4, batch.batch);
                                 if(evr!=0)
                                 {
@@ -4213,41 +4310,45 @@ generation_outputs gpttype_generate(const generation_inputs inputs)
                             if(sepsize>0 && i>0)
                             {
                                 //add a separator between each image
-                                kcpp_embd_batch batch = kcpp_embd_batch(llava_sep, n_past, use_mrope, false);
+                                kcpp_embd_batch batch = kcpp_embd_batch(media_sep, n_past, use_mrope, false);
                                 auto evr = llama_decode(llama_ctx_v4, batch.batch);
                                 if(evr!=0)
                                 {
-                                    printf("\nError when appending llava separator: %d\n",evr);
+                                    printf("\nError when appending media separator: %d\n",evr);
                                 }
                                 else
                                 {
-                                    printf("\rProcessing LLaVa Separator (%d tokens)",sepsize);
+                                    printf("\rProcessing Media Separator (%d tokens)",sepsize);
                                 }
                                 n_past += sepsize;
                                 llavatokensevaled += sepsize;
                             }
 
-                            if(allow_regular_prints)
+                            for(int j=0;j<media_objects[i].mediachunks.size();++j)
                             {
-                                printf("\rProcessing LLaVa Embedding %d (%d tokens)",(i+1), llava_images[i].clp_image_tokens);
-                            }
-                            bool err = kcpp_eval_image(llama_ctx_v4,llava_images[i].clp_img_embd,llava_images[i].clp_image_tokens,kcpp_data->n_batch,&n_past);
-                            llavatokensevaled += llava_images[i].clp_image_tokens;
-                            if(!err)
-                            {
-                                llava_composite_image_signature = ""; //force invalidate
-                                fprintf(stderr, "\nFailed to eval llava image at %d!\n",n_past);
-                                output.text = nullptr;
-                                output.status = 0;
-                                output.prompt_tokens = output.completion_tokens = 0;
-                                output.stopreason = stop_reason::INVALID;
-                                generation_finished = true;
-                                return output;
+                                media_chunk chunk = media_objects[i].mediachunks[j];
+                                if(allow_regular_prints)
+                                {
+                                    printf("\rProcessing Media Embedding %d (%d tokens)",(i+1), chunk.clp_image_tokens);
+                                }
+                                bool err = kcpp_eval_image(llama_ctx_v4,chunk.clp_img_embd,chunk.clp_image_tokens,kcpp_data->n_batch,&n_past);
+                                llavatokensevaled += chunk.clp_image_tokens;
+                                if(!err)
+                                {
+                                    media_composite_image_signature = ""; //force invalidate
+                                    fprintf(stderr, "\nFailed to eval llava image at %d!\n",n_past);
+                                    output.text = nullptr;
+                                    output.status = 0;
+                                    output.prompt_tokens = output.completion_tokens = 0;
+                                    output.stopreason = stop_reason::INVALID;
+                                    generation_finished = true;
+                                    return output;
+                                }
                             }
                         }
                         if(llavatokenscounted!=llavatokensevaled)
                         {
-                            llava_composite_image_signature = ""; //force invalidate
+                            media_composite_image_signature = ""; //force invalidate
                             fprintf(stderr, "\nLLAVA image tokens mismatch at %d! (%d vs %d tokens)\n",n_past,llavatokenscounted,llavatokensevaled);
                             output.text = nullptr;
                             output.status = 0;
diff --git a/klite.embd b/klite.embd
index a556364e4..36c8239ed 100644
--- a/klite.embd
+++ b/klite.embd
@@ -17874,9 +17874,9 @@ Current version indicated by LITEVER below.
 		{
 			return render_audio_html(data);
 		}
-		else if(data.startsWith("data:image"))
+		else //also handles ALL pending items
 		{
-			return render_image_html(data, pend_txt, siclass)
+			return render_image_html(data, pend_txt, siclass);
 		}
 		return "";
 	}
diff --git a/koboldcpp.py b/koboldcpp.py
index b2241797c..ab858ea53 100644
--- a/koboldcpp.py
+++ b/koboldcpp.py
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ import subprocess
 sampler_order_max = 7
 tensor_split_max = 16
 images_max = 8
+audio_max = 4
 bias_min_value = -100.0
 bias_max_value = 100.0
 logprobs_max = 5
@@ -215,6 +216,7 @@ class generation_inputs(ctypes.Structure):
                 ("negative_prompt", ctypes.c_char_p),
                 ("guidance_scale", ctypes.c_float),
                 ("images", ctypes.c_char_p * images_max),
+                ("audio", ctypes.c_char_p * audio_max),
                 ("max_context_length", ctypes.c_int),
                 ("max_length", ctypes.c_int),
                 ("temperature", ctypes.c_float),
@@ -1402,6 +1404,7 @@ def generate(genparams, stream_flag=False):
     negative_prompt = genparams.get('negative_prompt', "")
     guidance_scale = tryparsefloat(genparams.get('guidance_scale', 1.0),1.0)
     images = genparams.get('images', [])
+    audio = genparams.get('audio', [])
     max_context_length = tryparseint(genparams.get('max_context_length', maxctx),maxctx)
     max_length = tryparseint(genparams.get('max_length', args.defaultgenamt),args.defaultgenamt)
     temperature = tryparsefloat(genparams.get('temperature', adapter_obj.get("temperature", 0.75)),0.75)
@@ -1468,6 +1471,11 @@ def generate(genparams, stream_flag=False):
             inputs.images[n] = "".encode("UTF-8")
         else:
             inputs.images[n] = images[n].encode("UTF-8")
+    for n in range(audio_max):
+        if not audio or n >= len(audio):
+            inputs.audio[n] = "".encode("UTF-8")
+        else:
+            inputs.audio[n] = audio[n].encode("UTF-8")
     global showmaxctxwarning
     if max_context_length > maxctx:
         if showmaxctxwarning:
diff --git a/otherarch/otherarch.h b/otherarch/otherarch.h
index be7d04da6..456fd808e 100644
--- a/otherarch/otherarch.h
+++ b/otherarch/otherarch.h
@@ -502,11 +502,16 @@ struct mpt_model {
     std::map<std::string, struct ggml_v3_tensor *> tensors;
 };
 
-struct llava_image
+struct media_chunk
+{
+   int32_t clp_image_tokens = 0; //holds number of tokens llava used in this chunk
+   float * clp_img_embd = nullptr; //this holds dynamic memory and must be freed each use!
+};
+struct media_object
 {
     std::string b64data = "";
-    int32_t clp_image_tokens = 0; //holds number of tokens llava used
-    float * clp_img_embd = nullptr; //this holds dynamic memory and must be freed each use!
+    std::vector<media_chunk> mediachunks;
+    bool is_audio = false; //if true its audio, otherwise its vision
 };
 
 struct speculative_draft_result
diff --git a/otherarch/utils.cpp b/otherarch/utils.cpp
index 897b5243a..7e7ed1ef2 100644
--- a/otherarch/utils.cpp
+++ b/otherarch/utils.cpp
@@ -11,6 +11,17 @@
 #include <sstream>
 #include <ctime>
 
+#define MINIAUDIO_IMPLEMENTATION
+#ifndef MTMD_AUDIO_DEBUG
+#   define MA_NO_ENCODING
+#endif
+#define MA_NO_DEVICE_IO
+#define MA_NO_RESOURCE_MANAGER
+#define MA_NO_NODE_GRAPH
+#define MA_NO_ENGINE
+#define MA_NO_GENERATION
+#define MA_API static
+#include "miniaudio/miniaudio.h"
 
 void utreplace(std::string & str, const std::string & needle, const std::string & replacement) {
     size_t pos = 0;
@@ -501,47 +512,47 @@ kcpp_embd_batch::kcpp_embd_batch(float * embd, int32_t n_tokens, int32_t npast,
 
 kcpp_embd_batch::kcpp_embd_batch(std::vector<llama_token> & tokens, int32_t npast, bool use_mrope, bool return_all_logits)
 {
-       int32_t seq_id = 0;
-        int32_t n_tokens = tokens.size();
-        pos.resize(n_tokens * (use_mrope?4:1));
-        std::fill(pos.begin(), pos.end(), 0);
-        n_seq_id.resize(n_tokens);
-        seq_ids.resize(n_tokens + 1);
-        logits.resize(n_tokens);
-        seq_id_0.resize(1);
-        seq_id_0[0] = seq_id;
-        seq_ids[n_tokens] = nullptr;
-        batch = {
-            /*n_tokens       =*/ n_tokens,
-            /*tokens         =*/ tokens.data(),
-            /*embd           =*/ nullptr,
-            /*pos            =*/ pos.data(),
-            /*n_seq_id       =*/ n_seq_id.data(),
-            /*seq_id         =*/ seq_ids.data(),
-            /*logits         =*/ logits.data(),
-        };
+    int32_t seq_id = 0;
+    int32_t n_tokens = tokens.size();
+    pos.resize(n_tokens * (use_mrope?4:1));
+    std::fill(pos.begin(), pos.end(), 0);
+    n_seq_id.resize(n_tokens);
+    seq_ids.resize(n_tokens + 1);
+    logits.resize(n_tokens);
+    seq_id_0.resize(1);
+    seq_id_0[0] = seq_id;
+    seq_ids[n_tokens] = nullptr;
+    batch = {
+        /*n_tokens       =*/ n_tokens,
+        /*tokens         =*/ tokens.data(),
+        /*embd           =*/ nullptr,
+        /*pos            =*/ pos.data(),
+        /*n_seq_id       =*/ n_seq_id.data(),
+        /*seq_id         =*/ seq_ids.data(),
+        /*logits         =*/ logits.data(),
+    };
 
-        if(!use_mrope)
-        {
-           for (int i = 0; i < n_tokens; i++) {
-                batch.pos     [i] = npast + i;
-                batch.n_seq_id[i] = 1;
-                batch.seq_id  [i] = seq_id_0.data();
-                batch.logits  [i] = (return_all_logits?true:false);
-            }
+    if(!use_mrope)
+    {
+        for (int i = 0; i < n_tokens; i++) {
+            batch.pos     [i] = npast + i;
+            batch.n_seq_id[i] = 1;
+            batch.seq_id  [i] = seq_id_0.data();
+            batch.logits  [i] = (return_all_logits?true:false);
         }
-        else
-        {
-            for (int i = 0; i < n_tokens; i++) {
-                batch.n_seq_id[i] = 1;
-                batch.seq_id  [i] = seq_id_0.data();
-                batch.logits  [i] = (return_all_logits?true:false);
-            }
-             for (int j = 0; j < batch.n_tokens * 3; j++) {
-                batch.pos[j] = npast + (j % batch.n_tokens);
-            }
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        for (int i = 0; i < n_tokens; i++) {
+            batch.n_seq_id[i] = 1;
+            batch.seq_id  [i] = seq_id_0.data();
+            batch.logits  [i] = (return_all_logits?true:false);
         }
-        batch.logits[n_tokens - 1] = true;
+            for (int j = 0; j < batch.n_tokens * 3; j++) {
+            batch.pos[j] = npast + (j % batch.n_tokens);
+        }
+    }
+    batch.logits[n_tokens - 1] = true;
 }
 
 std::vector<std::string> split_string(const std::string& input, const std::string& separator) {
@@ -559,4 +570,59 @@ std::vector<std::string> split_string(const std::string& input, const std::strin
     result.push_back(input.substr(start));
 
     return result;
+}
+
+
+static bool buf_is_audio_file(const char * buf, size_t len) {
+    if (len < 12) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    // RIFF ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Interchange_File_Format
+    // WAV ref: https://www.mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/Documents/AudioFormats/WAVE/WAVE.html
+    bool is_wav = memcmp(buf, "RIFF", 4) == 0 && memcmp(buf + 8, "WAVE", 4) == 0;
+    bool is_mp3 = len >= 3 && (
+        memcmp(buf, "ID3", 3) == 0 ||
+        // Check for MPEG sync word (simplified check)
+        ((unsigned char)buf[0] == 0xFF && ((unsigned char)buf[1] & 0xE0) == 0xE0)
+    );
+    bool is_flac = memcmp(buf, "fLaC", 4) == 0;
+
+    return is_wav || is_mp3 || is_flac;
+}
+
+// returns true if the buffer is a valid audio file
+bool kcpp_decode_audio_from_buf(const unsigned char * buf_in, size_t len, int target_sampler_rate, std::vector<float> & pcmf32_mono) {
+    if (!buf_is_audio_file((const char *)buf_in, len))
+    {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    ma_result result;
+    const int channels = 1;
+    ma_decoder_config decoder_config = ma_decoder_config_init(ma_format_f32, channels, target_sampler_rate);
+    ma_decoder decoder;
+
+    result = ma_decoder_init_memory(buf_in, len, &decoder_config, &decoder);
+    if (result != MA_SUCCESS) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    ma_uint64 frame_count;
+    ma_uint64 frames_read;
+    result = ma_decoder_get_length_in_pcm_frames(&decoder, &frame_count);
+    if (result != MA_SUCCESS) {
+        ma_decoder_uninit(&decoder);
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    pcmf32_mono.resize(frame_count);
+    result = ma_decoder_read_pcm_frames(&decoder, pcmf32_mono.data(), frame_count, &frames_read);
+    if (result != MA_SUCCESS) {
+        ma_decoder_uninit(&decoder);
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    ma_decoder_uninit(&decoder);
+    return true;
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/otherarch/utils.h b/otherarch/utils.h
index 83aa7648f..4cfb829f1 100644
--- a/otherarch/utils.h
+++ b/otherarch/utils.h
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ std::vector<float> resample_wav(const std::vector<float>& input, uint32_t input_
 int32_t kcpp_quick_sample(float * logits, const int n_logits, const std::vector<int32_t> & last_n_tokens, float rep_pen, float top_p, int top_k, float temp, std::mt19937 & rng);
 
 std::vector<std::string> split_string(const std::string& input, const std::string& separator);
+bool kcpp_decode_audio_from_buf(const unsigned char * buf_in, size_t len, int target_sampler_rate, std::vector<float> & pcmf32_mono);
 
 struct kcpp_embd_batch { //duplcated from llava_embd_batch
     std::vector<int32_t> pos;
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/llava.cpp b/tools/mtmd/llava.cpp
index a50552d48..dbd7e64a8 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/llava.cpp
+++ b/tools/mtmd/llava.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #include "clip.h"
+#include "clip-impl.h"
 #include "llava.h"
+#include "mtmd-audio.h"
 
 #include "llama.h"
 #include "ggml-cpp.h"
@@ -13,35 +15,6 @@
 #include <vector>
 #include <memory>
 
-#if defined(LLAVA_LOG_OFF)
-#   define LOG_INF(...)
-#   define LOG_WRN(...)
-#   define LOG_ERR(...)
-#   define LOG_DBG(...)
-#else // defined(LLAVA_LOG_OFF)
-#   define LOG_INF(...) do { fprintf(stdout, __VA_ARGS__); } while (0)
-#   define LOG_WRN(...) do { fprintf(stderr, __VA_ARGS__); } while (0)
-#   define LOG_ERR(...) do { fprintf(stderr, __VA_ARGS__); } while (0)
-#   define LOG_DBG(...) do { fprintf(stdout, __VA_ARGS__); } while (0)
-#endif // defined(LLAVA_LOG_OFF)
-
-// RGB uint8 image
-struct clip_image_u8 {
-    int nx;
-    int ny;
-
-    std::vector<uint8_t> buf;
-};
-
-// RGB float32 image (NHWC)
-// Memory layout: RGBRGBRGB...
-struct clip_image_f32 {
-    int nx;
-    int ny;
-
-    std::vector<float> buf;
-};
-
 struct clip_image_grid_shape {
     int first;
     int second;
@@ -53,11 +26,6 @@ struct clip_image_f32_batch_deleter {
 };
 typedef std::unique_ptr<clip_image_f32_batch, clip_image_f32_batch_deleter> clip_image_f32_batch_ptr;
 
-struct clip_image_size_deleter {
-    void operator()(clip_image_f32_batch * val) { clip_image_f32_batch_free(val); }
-};
-typedef std::unique_ptr<clip_image_size, clip_image_size_deleter> clip_image_size_ptr;
-
 /**
  * Selects the best resolution from a list of possible resolutions based on the original size.
  *
@@ -471,3 +439,28 @@ void llava_image_embed_free(struct llava_image_embed * embed) {
     free(embed->embed);
     free(embed);
 }
+
+//kcpp helper function
+bool audio_embd_make_with_clip_img(clip_ctx * ctx_clip, int n_threads, const whisper_preprocessor::whisper_mel & mel_spec, float ** image_embd_out, int * n_img_pos_out)
+{
+    clip_image_f32_ptr mel_f32(clip_image_f32_init());
+    mel_f32->nx  = mel_spec.n_len;
+    mel_f32->ny  = mel_spec.n_mel;
+    mel_f32->buf = std::move(mel_spec.data);
+    size_t n_tokens = clip_n_output_tokens(ctx_clip, mel_f32.get());
+
+    clip_image_f32_batch batch_f32;
+    batch_f32.is_audio = true;
+    batch_f32.entries.push_back(std::move(mel_f32));
+
+    int n_mmproj_embd = clip_n_mmproj_embd(ctx_clip);
+    float * audio_embd = (float *)malloc(n_tokens * n_mmproj_embd);
+    bool ok = clip_image_batch_encode(
+        ctx_clip,
+        n_threads,
+        &batch_f32,
+        audio_embd);
+    *image_embd_out = audio_embd;
+    *n_img_pos_out = n_tokens;
+    return ok ? 0 : 1;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/llava.h b/tools/mtmd/llava.h
index b6feb3027..05b97ebb3 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/llava.h
+++ b/tools/mtmd/llava.h
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ struct llava_image_embed {
     float * embed;
     int n_image_pos;
 };
+namespace whisper_preprocessor {
+    struct whisper_mel;
+}
 
 /** sanity check for clip <-> llava embed size match */
 LLAVA_API bool llava_validate_embed_size(const struct llama_context * ctx_llama, const struct clip_ctx * ctx_clip);
@@ -42,6 +45,9 @@ LLAVA_API void llava_image_embed_free(struct llava_image_embed * embed);
 /** write the image represented by embed into the llama context with batch size n_batch, starting at context pos n_past. on completion, n_past points to the next position in the context after the image embed. */
 LLAVA_API bool llava_eval_image_embed(struct llama_context * ctx_llama, const struct llava_image_embed * embed, int n_batch, int * n_past);
 
+LLAVA_API bool audio_embd_make_with_clip_img(clip_ctx * ctx_clip, int n_threads, const whisper_preprocessor::whisper_mel & mel_spec, float ** image_embd_out, int * n_img_pos_out);
+
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif