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cs.CL2026
People Making Conversation: Evaluating How Naturally Speech Models Converse
Arya Bastani, Iman Modarressi
A conversational speech model has to decide, at every pause, whether to speak. Existing evaluations test boundary detection, policy adherence, or aggregate statistics, not this dec…
cs.CL2026
Neither Silence nor Overlap Is Failure: Intent-Conditioned Evaluation of Turn-Taking in Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Models
Kian Shamsaie, Iman Modarressi
Benchmarks for full-duplex spoken dialogue models score turn-taking with binary fixed-window rules that reward immediate response or silence by completeness of the prior turn. We a…