3 papers
cs.CL2026
NemotronLabs VoiceChat: An Open Full-duplex Speech-to-Speech Model with Tool Calling Capabilities
Jagadeesh Balam, Travis Bartley, Edresson Casanova +52
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…
eess.AS2026
VoiceChat-TTS: A Low-Latency Continuous Speech Synthesis Model for Interactive Agents
Edresson Casanova, Jaehyeon Kim, Mariana Graterol Fuenmayor +17
Spoken dialogue is a natural form of human--computer interaction, yet most speech language models remain limited to turn-based operation and lack real-time adaptability, such as us…
cs.SD2026
Streaming T5-based Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Limited Lookahead
Muyang Du, Jason Roche, Junjie Lai
Streaming text-to-speech synthesis in cascaded LLM-TTS systems still faces latency challenges as most TTS models require full context before initiating generation. We present S5-TT…