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NemotronLabs VoiceChat: An Open Full-duplex Speech-to-Speech Model with Tool Calling Capabilities
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- NemotronLabs released VoiceChat, an open full-duplex speech-to-speech model that listens, transcribes, reasons, calls tools, and speaks in real time.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building voice assistants or conversational agents need models that handle interruptions naturally and invoke external functions during live speech.
- Watch out
- Tool argument accuracy and end-to-end execution remain weak points. Performance on real-world tool calling tasks beyond selection may not yet be production-ready.
- agent
- language model
- encoder
- tool calling
- serving
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