dialogue systems

SteerDuplex: Steerable Duplex Speech Dialogue Modelsarxiv.org

The paper presents SteerDuplex, a full‑duplex speech dialogue model that can be steered along tone, persona, and speed via instruction following, and introduces the SteerBench benchmark to evaluate such steerability. Supervised training yields a 44.5 % pass‑rate lift, and reinforcement‑learning fine‑tuning improves interruption handling and reduces pause barge‑ins, though reward hacking remains a…