2 papers
cs.CL2026
Prompts versus Rules: Auditing and Controlling Speech Naturalness Behaviors in Voice User Simulators
Riqiang Wang, Elena Khasanova, Harsh Saini +4
As voice agents gain more popularity commercially, the user simulators used to evaluate the deployed agents are also being developed to include more realistic, variable, and divers…
cs.CL2026
Back in Style: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Authoring and Measuring Persona Fidelity in User Simulation
Lex Konnelly, Elena Khasanova, Riqiang Wang +3
As agentic systems gain commercial popularity, user simulators increasingly serve as measurement instrument for their evaluation. However, the fidelity of simulated users in compar…