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5 papers

cs.SD2026

VoxMind: An End-to-End Agentic Spoken Dialogue System

Tianle Liang, Yifu Chen, Shengpeng Ji +7

Recent end-to-end spoken dialogue models enable natural interaction. However, as user demands become increasingly complex, models that rely solely on conversational abilities often…

cs.AI2026

WavAlign: Enhancing Intelligence and Expressiveness in Spoken Dialogue Models via Adaptive Hybrid Post-Training

Yifu Chen, Shengpeng Ji, Qian Chen +9

End-to-end spoken dialogue models have garnered significant attention because they offer a higher potential ceiling in expressiveness and perceptual ability than cascaded systems.…

cs.AI2026

Dual-Axis Generative Reward Model Toward Semantic and Turn-taking Robustness in Interactive Spoken Dialogue Models

Yifu Chen, Shengpeng Ji, Zhengqing Liu +6

Achieving seamless, human-like interaction remains a key challenge for full-duplex spoken dialogue models (SDMs). Reinforcement learning (RL) has substantially enhanced text- and v…

cs.CL2026

WavBench: Benchmarking Reasoning, Colloquialism, and Paralinguistics for End-to-End Spoken Dialogue Models

Yangzhuo Li, Shengpeng Ji, Yifu Chen +6

With the rapid integration of advanced reasoning capabilities into spoken dialogue models, the field urgently demands benchmarks that transcend simple interactions to address real-…

eess.AS2025

WavReward: Spoken Dialogue Models With Generalist Reward Evaluators

Shengpeng Ji, Tianle Liang, Yangzhuo Li +11

End-to-end spoken dialogue models such as GPT-4o-audio have recently garnered significant attention in the speech domain. However, the evaluation of spoken dialogue models' convers…