SteerDuplex: Steerable Duplex Speech Dialogue Models research paper by Scale AI, 2026
Scale AI · Multimodal and robotics · Sep 11, 2026 · 3 citations · 6 upvotes
What it shows
A full-duplex speech model that follows spoken instructions on tone, persona, pace and voice, with a benchmark of 390 prompts to test it.
By Utkarsh Tyagi, Ramaneswaran Selvakumar, Advait Gosai and 13 more · arXiv 2609.12623 · PDF
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