diff --git a/.github/workflows/llm_unit_tests.yml b/.github/workflows/llm_unit_tests.yml
index 9a8380ed..c066f72f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/llm_unit_tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/llm_unit_tests.yml
@@ -221,11 +221,13 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           echo "DATASET_DIR=${ORIGIN_DIR}/../datasets" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
           echo "ABIRATE_ENGLISH_QUOTES_PATH=${ORIGIN_DIR}/../datasets/abirate_english_quotes" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "SPEECH_DATASET_PATH=${ORIGIN_DIR}/../datasets/librispeech_asr_dummy" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
 
           echo "LLAMA2_7B_ORIGIN_PATH=${ORIGIN_DIR}/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
           echo "CHATGLM2_6B_ORIGIN_PATH=${ORIGIN_DIR}/chatglm2-6b" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
           echo "FALCON_7B_ORIGIN_PATH=${ORIGIN_DIR}/falcon-7b-instruct-with-patch" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
           echo "MPT_7B_ORIGIN_PATH=${ORIGIN_DIR}/mpt-7b-chat" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "WHISPER_TINY_ORIGIN_PATH=${ORIGIN_DIR}/whisper-tiny" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
 
       - name: Checkout repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
@@ -275,6 +277,10 @@ jobs:
             echo "Directory $MPT_7B_ORIGIN_PATH not found. Downloading from FTP server..."
             wget -r -nH --no-verbose --cut-dirs=1 $LLM_FTP_URL/llm/mpt-7b-chat -P $ORIGIN_DIR
           fi
+          if [ ! -d $WHISPER_TINY_ORIGIN_PATH ]; then
+            echo "Directory $WHISPER_TINY_ORIGIN_PATH not found. Downloading from FTP server..."
+            wget -r -nH --no-verbose --cut-dirs=1 $LLM_FTP_URL/llm/whisper-tiny -P $ORIGIN_DIR
+          fi
           if [ ! -d $DATASET_DIR ]; then
             mkdir -p $DATASET_DIR
           fi
@@ -282,12 +288,16 @@ jobs:
             echo "Directory $ABIRATE_ENGLISH_QUOTES_PATH not found. Downloading from FTP server..."
             wget -r -nH --no-verbose --cut-dirs=2 $LLM_FTP_URL/llm/datasets/abirate_english_quotes -P $DATASET_DIR
           fi
+          if [ ! -d $SPEECH_DATASET_PATH ]; then
+            echo "Directory $SPEECH_DATASET_PATH not found. Downloading from FTP server..."
+            wget -r -nH --no-verbose --cut-dirs=2 $LLM_FTP_URL/llm/datasets/librispeech_asr_dummy -P $DATASET_DIR
+          fi
           
       - name: Run LLM inference test
         shell: bash
         run: |
           source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh
-          python -m pip install expecttest einops
+          python -m pip install expecttest einops librosa
           bash python/llm/test/run-llm-inference-tests-gpu.sh
 
       - name: Run LLM example tests
diff --git a/python/llm/test/inference_gpu/test_transformers_api.py b/python/llm/test/inference_gpu/test_transformers_api.py
index c0f3dfc0..8ed8bef4 100644
--- a/python/llm/test/inference_gpu/test_transformers_api.py
+++ b/python/llm/test/inference_gpu/test_transformers_api.py
@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@
 #
 
 
-import os
+import os, time
 import pytest
 
-from bigdl.llm.transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoModel
+from bigdl.llm.transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoModel, AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq
 from transformers import LlamaTokenizer, AutoTokenizer
 
 device = os.environ['DEVICE']
@@ -41,14 +41,33 @@ def test_completion(Model, Tokenizer, model_path, prompt, answer):
                                 load_in_4bit=True,
                                 optimize_model=True,
                                 trust_remote_code=True)
-    model = model.to(device)  # deallocate gpu memory
+    model = model.to(device)
 
     input_ids = tokenizer.encode(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(device)
     output = model.generate(input_ids, max_new_tokens=32)
-    model.to('cpu')
+    model.to('cpu')   # deallocate gpu memory
     output_str = tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
 
     assert answer in output_str
+
+def test_transformers_auto_model_for_speech_seq2seq_int4():
+    from transformers import WhisperProcessor
+    from datasets import load_from_disk
+    model_path = os.environ.get('WHISPER_TINY_ORIGIN_PATH')
+    dataset_path = os.environ.get('SPEECH_DATASET_PATH')
+    processor = WhisperProcessor.from_pretrained(model_path)
+    ds = load_from_disk(dataset_path)
+    sample = ds[0]["audio"]
+    input_features = processor(sample["array"], sampling_rate=sample["sampling_rate"], return_tensors="pt").input_features
+    input_features = input_features.to(device)
+    model = AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq.from_pretrained(model_path, trust_remote_code=True, load_in_4bit=True, optimize_model=True)
+    model = model.to(device)
+    predicted_ids = model.generate(input_features)
+    # decode token ids to text
+    transcription = processor.batch_decode(predicted_ids, skip_special_tokens=False)
+    model.to('cpu')      
+    print('Output:', transcription)
+    assert 'Mr. Quilter is the apostle of the middle classes and we are glad to welcome his gospel.' in transcription[0]
         
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     pytest.main([__file__])
diff --git a/python/llm/test/run-llm-inference-tests-gpu.sh b/python/llm/test/run-llm-inference-tests-gpu.sh
index 3d22c1cf..81f519c2 100644
--- a/python/llm/test/run-llm-inference-tests-gpu.sh
+++ b/python/llm/test/run-llm-inference-tests-gpu.sh
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ if [ -z "$THREAD_NUM" ]; then
   THREAD_NUM=2
 fi
 export OMP_NUM_THREADS=$THREAD_NUM
-pytest ${LLM_INFERENCE_TEST_DIR} -v -s 
+pytest ${LLM_INFERENCE_TEST_DIR} -v -s
 
 now=$(date "+%s")
 time=$((now-start))