arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 15

Realtime-Venus: A full-duplex interaction system with asynchronous delegation

arXiv:2609.13814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural interaction in digital and physical environments requires continuous perception and timely responses. Spoken dialogue relies on acoustic and li...

By Ruixiang Zhao, Hualei Wang, Renhe Sun, Enzhi Zhou, Jincenzi Wu, Xujie Song, Kexin Shi, Zihang Liu, Pengcheng Zhu, Jiayi Zhou, Baoyue Zhang, Changhao Zhang, Zitong Wang, Jinhong Wang, Tong Niu, Jingjing Liu, Junan Lin, Haolin He, Hengshuo Chu, Yuhui Chen, Jian Liu, Yuge Huang, Junliang Xing, Yuntao Wang, Weiqiang Wang, Chun Yu, Yuanchun Shi
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 23

Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: Towards Reliable Agentic Voice Interaction

arXiv:2609.25176v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time voice assistants must reason over evolving requests, execute actions, and follow conversational rules. Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime brings these...

By Lujia Bao, Qian Chen, Luyao Cheng, Chong Deng, Yuxiang Kong, Xiangang Li, Xu Li, Jiaqing Liu, Chao-Hong Tan, Haoyu Wang, Wen Wang, Xilou Wang, Junhao Xu, Liang Yi, Binbin Zhang, Qinglin Zhang, Qiquan Zhang
arXiv Computation and Language
Nov 4

InteractionBench: Measuring Timing, Task Accuracy, Whisper and Volume, and Grounding in Real-Time Voice Systems

InteractionBench is a benchmark that evaluates real‑time voice systems on four dimensions—conversational timing, spoken‑task accuracy, whispering and volume, and groundedness—using the same recorded user audio across thirteen scenarios. It tests seven systems (GPT‑Live, GPT‑Realtime, Gemini Live, Moshi, PersonaPlex, Freeze‑Omni, and a turn‑based cascade) over 1,519 runs, revealing correlations between timing and task accuracy and highlighting differences in whispering, grammar correction, and groundedness performance. The study also notes protocol variations and the impact of network delay on timing scores.

By Richard Yucheng He, Chen Xu, Yihang Liu, Tairan Chen, Baodong Cao
arXiv AI
Sep 21

NemotronLabs VoiceChat: An Open Full-duplex Speech-to-Speech Model with Tool Calling Capabilities

arXiv:2609.21967v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce NemotronLabs VoiceChat, an open full-duplex speech-to-speech model with native tool-calling capabilities. NemotronLabs VoiceChat combine...

By Jagadeesh Balam, Travis Bartley, Edresson Casanova, Sanjay Chauhan, Chen Chen, Zhehuai Chen, Zijia Chen, Francesco Ciannella, Slyne Deng, Mikyas Desta, Harishchandra Dubey, Slim Essid, Nourchene Ferchichi, Boris Ginsburg, Mariana Graterol Fuenmayor, Negar Habibi, Kevin Hu, Anand Joseph, Viraj Karandikar, Myungjong Kim, Viacheslav Klimkov, Seelan Lakshmi Narasimhan, Lily Lee, Jason Li, Eileen Long, Ameya Mahabaleshwarkar, Aditya Malte, Adi Margolin, Sasha Meister, Valentin Mendelev, Oluwatobi Olabiyi, Ankita Pasad, Yifan Peng, Elena Rastorgueva, Jayda Ritchie, Jason Roche, Nikhil Srihari, Yuanhang Su, Yoshi Suhara, Viet Anh Trinh, Jinhan Wang, Piotr Zelasko, Hui Wang, Puhui Meng, Chaosen Zhang, Yunsheng Liu, Shawn Wang, Wenjing Li, Zhonglei He
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 12

People Making Conversation: Evaluating How Naturally Speech Models Converse

The study evaluates conversational speech models by placing them at 427 pauses and 482 turn ends from 176 unscripted conversations, scoring their responses on timing, latency, length, wording, and recall of recent dialogue. Hosted APIs (GPT Realtime, Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, Grok Voice) respond at almost every pause, with latency ranging from 1–4 s for silence-based endpointers and about 8 s for semantic turn detection, while full‑duplex models (PersonaPlex, Moshi) remain silent more often and can interrupt within human reaction time. Recall rates vary: hosted systems remember 41–60 % of facts under a Claude Opus 5.5 judge and 19–26 % with a strict word matcher; full‑duplex models recall 17–22 % and 12–15 % respectively.

By Arya Bastani, Iman Modarressi
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Omni Interaction Agent Technical Report

The technical report introduces Gander, an end‑to‑end model that integrates omni perception, real‑time interaction, and agentic capabilities into a single framework. Unlike traditional turn‑based systems, Gander continuously processes streaming inputs from video, speech, and text, enabling natural full‑duplex interaction in both everyday conversations and workflow‑oriented scenarios. Its architecture features a Cerebellum‑Brain collaboration—where the Cerebellum handles real‑time interaction and omni conversational tasks while the Brain manages complex reasoning—and a streaming Thinker‑Talker design that flattens inputs and outputs into an ordered token stream for low‑latency, continuous dialogue. Evaluations across conversational ability, omni understanding, interactive capability, and agentic intelligence show that Gander matches state‑of‑the‑art open‑source models in spoken dialogue while maintaining robust performance in noisy, multi‑party, and backchannel environments.

By Orantqing, Shengpeng Ji, Junlong Tong, Jialong Zuo, Dongjie Fu, Di Cao, Yangzhuo Li, Shangda Wu, Franz, Evan, Theron Veyra, Changhao Pan, Jingyu Lu, Dongchao Yang, Zhifei Xie, Yang Tan, Xiaoyu Shen, Xiaoda Yang, Wenfu Wang, Teddy Sun, Steve Yves, Zhou Zhao