TalkFa introduces a unified benchmark for Farsi dialogue generation and understanding, comprising three datasets: WIKI‑FADIAL (4.2K Wikipedia‑grounded dialogues), DAILYDIALOG‑FA (6.6K dialogues with dialogue‑act and emotion annotations), and PLAYDIAL‑FA (2.1K theatrical dialogues with sentiment labels). All dialogues are curated through multi‑stage review by native speakers, ensuring high quality. Experiments show that LoRA fine‑tuning improves generation performance with less data, while specific models excel on classification tasks, and human evaluation confirms the benchmark’s reliability.
By Neda Jamshidi, Kamyar Zeinalipour, Fahimeh Akbari, Monica Bianchini, Marco Maggini, Marco Gori
The paper introduces Inverse Turing Bench, a benchmark designed to assess how well language models can distinguish between human-only and human-AI dialogues in multi-turn text. It provides paired dialogue transcripts and evaluates models on correctly identifying the type of conversation. Preliminary results show GPTZero, Claude Opus-4.6, and GPT-5.5 achieving the highest accuracies of 89.41%, 77.92%, and 75.94% respectively, highlighting both the strengths and limitations of statistical versus semantic detection approaches.
By William Hager, Ishika Rathi, Masum Hasan, Cameron Jones
arXiv:2607. 16021v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dialogue state tracking (DST) is one of the core components in task-oriented dialogue systems.
By Junyuan Zheng, Onkar Salvi, John Chan
The paper introduces a decoupled data approach for the Neural Finite State Machine (NFSM) framework to improve full‑duplex dialogue. It serializes real human‑human spoken dialogues into FSM tapes using a rule‑based event‑guided transformation, while shaping semantics through human‑agent text dialogues. A Source‑Aware Calibrated (SAC) loss is proposed to balance state‑transition token distribution and align each data source with its strongest supervisory signal, leading to better turn‑taking performance without sacrificing semantic quality.
By Yihang Li, Chenhui Chu
arXiv:2510.22588v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Spoken dialogue models currently lack the ability for fine-grained speech style control, a critical capability for human-like interaction tha...
By Wenming Tu, Guanrou Yang, Ruiqi Yan, Wenxi Chen, Ziyang Ma, Yipeng Kang, Kai Yu, Xie Chen, Zilong Zheng
arXiv:2603.16783v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Robust voice agents require exposure to the full diversity of how people interact through speech. However, obtaining enough spoken interactions is...
By Jonggeun Lee, Junseong Pyo, Jeongmin Park, Yohan Jo
arXiv:2607. 12085v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating retail conversational agents requires methods beyond lexical-overlap metrics to assess intent alignment, factuality, helpfulness, clarity, tone, and overall response quality.
By Niranjan Kumar M, Balaji Nagarajan, Karthik Nair, Faysal Satter, Nithin Surendran
arXiv:2606. 03957v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational ASR for lower-resource languages and niche domains is limited by the scarcity of domain-matched multi-speaker training data.
By M\'at\'e Gedeon, P\'eter Mihajlik
arXiv:2407. 03884v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dialogue agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) show superior performance in various tasks.
By Zhigen Li, Jianxiang Peng, Yanmeng Wang, Yong Cao, Tianhao Shen, Minghui Zhang, Linxi Su, Shang Wu, Yihang Wu, Yuqian Wang, Ye Wang, Wei Hu, Jianfeng Li, Shaojun Wang, Jing Xiao, Deyi Xiong
Conversational ASR for lower-resource languages and niche domains is limited by the scarcity of domain-matched multi-speaker training data. We propose an augmentation pipeline that generates scenario-level dialogues with participant metadata, maps speaker attributes to TTS voice profiles, and assembles synthesized utterances into speaker-aware simulated conversations.
Dialogue state tracking (DST) is one of the core components in task-oriented dialogue systems. At each turn in a conversation, DST estimates the user belief or dialogue state, which is used as input for downstream modules to predict system actions and generate responses.
arXiv:2607. 21180v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances have introduced speech-to-speech (S2S) conversational assistants capable of producing natural-sounding interactions, including non-verbal cues like tonality and mood.
By Gregor Endler, Sebastian Kraus, Lukas Stappen