3 papers
cs.CL2026
NemotronLabs VoiceChat: An Open Full-duplex Speech-to-Speech Model with Tool Calling Capabilities
Jagadeesh Balam, Travis Bartley, Edresson Casanova +46
We introduce NemotronLabs VoiceChat, an open full-duplex speech-to-speech model with native tool-calling capabilities. NemotronLabs VoiceChat combines a streaming speech encoder an…
cs.CL2026
Preference-ASR: A Preference-Aware Test Set for Benchmarking ASR in the Era of Speech LLMs
Nithin Rao Koluguri, Sasha Meister, Nikolay Karpov +4
Popular ASR test sets adopt inconsistent conventions for numbers, disfluencies, entities, and casing, while standard normalizers erase the format distinctions users care about. Cur…
cs.CL2025
Granary: Speech Recognition and Translation Dataset in 25 European Languages
Nithin Rao Koluguri, Monica Sekoyan, George Zelenfroynd +12
Multi-task and multilingual approaches benefit large models, yet speech processing for low-resource languages remains underexplored due to data scarcity. To address this, we presen…