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SPEARBench: A Benchmark for Naturalness Evaluation in Streaming Speech-to-Speech Language Models
Thomas Thebaud, Yuzhe Wang, Hao Zhang +5
Streaming speech-to-speech language models aim to answer spoken queries directly with synthetic speech. However, standard speech and text benchmarks do not capture whether these sy…
cs.CL2026
TRACE: Temporal Relationship-Aware Conversational Entrainment Detection in Dyadic Speech
Sathvik Manikantan Napa Ugandhar, Hao Zhang, Alison Gunzler +5
With the proliferation of speech AI agents, understanding emotional entrainment in conversational interaction has become increasingly important. Emotional entrainment is shaped by…