arXiv:2608. 10716v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech-to-speech (S2S) voice agents are increasingly being incorporated into enterprise for customer care and as daily companions for consumers owing to the ease of the conversational modality over text.
By Aryan Vijay Bhosale, Harshit Rajgarhia, Akhil Pothanapalli, Asif Shaik, Abhishek Mukherji, Dinesh Manocha
arXiv:2606. 19595v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Voice agents deployed in structured workflows (customer service, healthcare scheduling, account management) must handle frequent user interruptions while maintaining progress through multi-step procedures.
By Ahmad Salimi, Wentao Ma, Yuzhi Tang, Dongming Shen, Mu Li, Alex Smola
arXiv:2607. 17164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Developing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for morphologically rich, low-resource languages such as Assamese is challenging due to insufficient annotated speech data.
By Ganapati Das, Dwipen Laskar, Hasin Afzal Ahmed, Sanjib Kr Kalita, Kshirod Sarmah, Hem Chandra Das, Manjula Kalita
arXiv:2608. 11590v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human voice generation has made rapid progress in speech generation, singing voice generation, voice cloning, and voice editing.
By Haowei Lou, Hye-Young Paik, Dai Jia, Kai Li, Lina Yao
arXiv:2606. 26144v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speaker diarization, the task of determining "who spoke when" in a multi-speaker recording, is a critical component in applications such as meeting transcription, accessibility tools, and multilingual information retrieval.
By Samip Neupane, Sandesh Pokhrel, Sandesh Pyakurel, Basanta Joshi
arXiv:2607. 26410v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Voice Memory, a inference-only scheme for agentic speech recognition: at stream time, a frozen corrector reads a single per-domain memory.
By Chao-Han Huck Yang, Zih-Ching Chen, Piotr Zelasko, Zhehuai Chen, Jagadeesh Balam, Boris Ginsburg
arXiv:2608. 12327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual pretrained models nominally support Nepali, yet no controlled benchmark has compared them under a single fine-tuning protocol.
By Suman Paudel, Sarbin Sayami
We present Voice Memory, a inference-only scheme for agentic speech recognition: at stream time, a frozen corrector reads a single per-domain memory. md and decides per utterance whether to act on the hypothesis or abstain and keep the 1-best.
arXiv:2606. 26901v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is increasingly used to document clinical encounters, yet its reliability in multilingual and demographically diverse Indian healthcare context remains largely unknown.
By Subham Kumar, Prakrithi Shivaprakash, Abhishek Manoharan, Astut Kurariya, Diptadhi Mukherjee, Prabhat Chand, Pratima Murthy, Koustav Rudra, Lekhansh Shukla, Animesh Mukherjee
arXiv:2606. 18319v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Air Traffic Control Operators (ATCOs) are vital in ensuring the safe, orderly, and efficient flow of air traffic, yet training capacity is constrained by reliance on specialized human trainers known as simpilots, who must role-play both pilots and ATCOs in a simulated airspace.
By Ethan Chew, Enjia Wu, Iruss Eng Wei Yeow, Ian Weiqin Lim, Ranen Sim, Brandon Koh Ziheng, Kaleb Nim, Caden Toh Jun Yi, Wei Dong Soin, Darius Kai Keat Koh, Galen King Yu Tay, Prannaya Gupta, Jonathan Ee Fang Koong, Yong Zhi Lim
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:2608. 07631v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based full-duplex voice services allow users to speak while the assistant is responding.
By Shibo Wang, Zicheng Zhang, Libo Wang, Junfeng Ma