---
title: Chroma-1.0
metatags:
    description: "Deploy Chroma-1.0 end-to-end speech conversation model with SGLang - real-time speech generation, voice cloning, and speech reasoning."
---

## 1. Model Introduction

[Chroma-1.0](https://github.com/FlashLabs-AI-Corp/FlashLabs-Chroma) is an open-source end-to-end speech conversation model developed by FlashLabs, focusing on the following core capabilities:

- **Real-time Speech Generation**: Supports low-latency speech synthesis, suitable for real-time conversational scenarios.
- **Customized Voice Cloning**: Capable of cloning and replicating specific speaker voice characteristics.
- **End-to-End Architecture**: Provides a complete processing workflow from speech to speech.
- **Speech Reasoning**: Equipped with reasoning capabilities to understand and process speech content.

## 2. Architecture Overview

**Chroma-1.0** utilizes a hybrid serving architecture rather than a direct SGLang deployment. This design choice is driven by:

1. **Complex Model Architecture**: The end-to-end speech processing pipeline involves specialized components that go beyond standard text generation loops.
2. **KV Cache & State Management**: The model requires custom handling of KV caches that differs from standard implementations.
3. **Batching Limitations**: The current implementation supports a batch size of 1, meaning SGLang's advanced continuous batching capabilities are not yet fully applicable.

Therefore, you will start the **FlashLabs Server**, which manages the overall workflow and selectively leverages SGLang for specific inference components where supported.

- **Outer Layer**: FlashLabs Server (Handles Audio I/O, State, and Model Logic)
- **Inner Engine**: SGLang Instance (Utilized for specific acceleration where applicable)

## 3. Installation & Setup

We recommend following these steps to set up the environment and prepare the model.

### Step 1: Get the Docker Image

Pull the official pre-built image from Docker Hub to ensure all dependencies are correctly configured.

```bash Command
docker pull flashlabs/chroma:latest
```

### Step 2: Download Model Weights

Download the **Chroma-4B** weights from Hugging Face. You can choose one of the following methods:

**Method 1: Using Python (Recommended)**

```bash Command
huggingface-cli download FlashLabs/Chroma-4B --local-dir Chroma-4B
```

**Method 2: Using Git Clone**

Make sure you have Git LFS installed before cloning.

```bash Command
# Install Git LFS first
git lfs install

# Clone the repository
git clone https://huggingface.co/FlashLabs/Chroma-4B Chroma-4B
```

### Step 3: Download Chroma Codes (SGLang version)

```bash Command
git clone https://github.com/FlashLabs-AI-Corp/Chroma-SGLang.git

cd Chroma-SGLang
```

### Step 4: Run the Server

```bash Command
docker run -d \
  --gpus all \
  -p 8000:8000 \
  -w /app/Chroma-SGLang \
  -v "your_Chroma-SGLang_path":/app/Chroma-SGLang \
  -v "your_chroma_path":/model \
  -e CHROMA_MODEL_PATH=/model \
  -e DP_SIZE="1" \
  flashlabs/chroma:latest \
  /opt/conda/bin/python -m uvicorn api_server:app \
  --host 0.0.0.0 \
  --port 8000 \
  --workers 1
```

or run simply the following one line command

```bash Command
docker-compose up -d
```

## 5. Client Usage Example

Once the server is running, you can interact with it using HTTP requests.

### Python Client

```python Example
import requests
import base64

url = "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions"
headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}

payload = {
    "model": "chroma",
    "messages": [
        {
            "role": "system",
            "content": "You are Chroma, a voice agent developed by FlashLabs."
        },
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": [
                {"type": "audio", "audio": "assets/question_audio.wav"}
            ]
        }
    ],
    "max_tokens": 1000,
    "return_audio": True
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
result = response.json()

if result.get("audio"):
    audio_data = base64.b64decode(result["audio"])
    with open("output.wav", "wb") as f:
        f.write(audio_data)
    print("Audio saved to output.wav")
```

### OpenAI SDK Compatible Example

```python Example
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="dummy",
    base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="chroma",
    messages=[
        {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": [
                {"type": "audio", "audio": "assets/question_audio.wav"}
            ]
        }
    ],
    extra_body={
        "prompt_text": "I have not... I'm so exhausted, I haven't slept in a very long time. It could be because... Well, I used our... Uh, I'm, I just use... This is what I use every day. I use our cleanser every day, I use serum in the morning and then the moistu- daily moisturizer. That's what I use every morning.",
        "prompt_audio": "assets/ref_audio.wav",
        "return_audio": True
    }
)

print(response)
```

### CLI (cURL)

```bash Command
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "chroma",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "system",
        "content": "You are Chroma, a voice agent developed by FlashLabs."
      },
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
          {
            "type": "audio",
            "audio": "assets/question_audio.wav"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "max_tokens": 1000,
    "return_audio": true
  }' | jq -r '.audio' | base64 -d > output.wav
```
