2 papers
cs.CL2026
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
Reference-Based Prosody and Rhythm Evaluation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Ashish Hallur, Thomas Thebaud, Georgi Tinchev +2
Speech-to-speech (S2S) AI agents are advancing rapidly, yet evaluation lacks interpretable speech-native measures for conversational prosody and rhythm. Because , speaking rat…