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  1. Richard: Voice-First Mobile Interaction for Persistent Tasks

    Sep 30, 2026Xinyang ChenVoice AgentsHandoff

  2. VAmoS Part Deux: Harder, More Realistic Voice-Agent Simulation

    Sep 29, 2026Joshua Meyer, Sahar Shayegan, Ritiz Tambi +5Voice AgentsDialogue Benchmarks

    Veris AI

  3. Voices as Handles: Reasoning about Speaker Identity with Frozen Text LLMs

    Sep 29, 2026Runqiu Xu, Zhisheng Zheng, David HarwathVoice AgentsSpeaker

    The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

  4. APEX-Voice: Can Voice Agents Complete Professional Workflows Through Full-Duplex Interaction

    Sep 28, 2026Puneet Mathur, Dinesh ManochaVoice AgentsFull-Duplex Voice Agents

    University of Maryland College Park, USA

  5. Almost Human, Except When It Matters: VoxParity and the Decisions a Voice Should Change

    Sep 28, 2026Bhavik ManglaVoice AgentsEmergency Departments

    Independent Research

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

    Sep 21, 2026Lujia Bao, Qian Chen, Luyao Cheng +15Voice AgentsAudio Understanding

    Alibaba Token Foundry, Alibaba Group

  7. MTVA-Bench: Evaluating the Language Model Inside Cascaded Voice Agents

    Sep 17, 2026Pritish Mishra, Ishaan Kumar, Akshat Mandoli +1Voice AgentsDialogue Benchmarks

    Smallest AI

  8. MP-Bench: Evaluating Voice Agents as a Multiparty Conversation Participant

    Sep 14, 2026Yi-Jen Shih, Shih-Yun Shan Kuan, Guan-Ting Lin +7Voice AgentsDialogue Benchmarks

    The University of Texas at Austin · National Taiwan University · Massachusetts Institute of Technology +2

  9. Conversation Coach: A Voice-enabled AI System that Helps Practice Difficult Workplace Conversations

    Aug 31, 2026Fanyou Wu, Suraj Maharjan, Ainur Yessenalina +3Voice AgentsFull-Duplex Voice Agents

    Amazon

  10. Perceptually Better, Semantically Worse: Measuring Speech Enhancement Impact on LLM-Based Voice Systems

    Aug 31, 2026Randy Frans Fela, Pejman MowlaeeSpeech EnhancementWhisper-Large-V3

    GN Group, Ballerup, Denmark

  11. Benchmarking LLM Judges for Voice-Agent Evaluation: Reliability, Calibration, and Human Oversight

    Aug 25, 2026Anupam Purwar, Shashank Singh, Kritika SrivastavaLlm-As-A-JudgeLarge Language Model Judges

    Sprinklr AI Gurugram, India · Sprinklr AI Bengaluru, India

  12. DuplexWorld: Can voice agents help you get through the day?

    Aug 11, 2026Aryan Vijay Bhosale, Harshit Rajgarhia, Akhil Pothanapalli +3Voice AgentsMultilingual Agents

    Centific Global Solutions Inc. · University of Maryland · Work done during an internship at Centific.

  13. FormBharo: Designing and Evaluating a Voice Agent for Conversational Form Filling in Rural India

    Aug 6, 2026Aman Dalmia, Sanskriti Midha, Jigar DoshiVoice AgentsHindi

    Artpark, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  14. Hear, Invoke, and Understand: A Skill-Calling Multimodal Agent for Large Audio Language Models

    Aug 3, 2026Yuwen Wang, Tian-Hao Zhang, Minghao Cai +7Audio UnderstandingVoice Agents

    University of Science and Technology Beijing, China · Li Auto Inc., Beijing, China

  15. JoyAI-Talker: Full-Duplex Speech Interactive Large Model Built for Empathetic Voice Agents

    Aug 2, 2026Yinhao Bai, Jinming Chen, Yafeng Chen +26Full-Duplex Speech ModelsVoice Agents

  16. VAmoS Bench: Voice Agent Simulation Bench

    Jul 29, 2026Joshua Meyer, Sahar Shayegan, Ritiz Tambi +5Voice AgentsDialogue Benchmarks

    Veris AI

  17. Kutti AI: A Voice-First, Offline-Capable Learning Companion with Real-Time Struggle Detection for Visually-Impaired Children

    Jul 24, 2026Kadharmoideen FadurudeenVoice Agents

    Independent Researcher

  18. Designed Vocalizations Dataset: Sound-Designed Human and Animal Voices for Non-human Voice Conversion

    Jul 23, 2026Seolhee Lee, Minsu Kang, Yangsun Lee +3Voice ConversionVocalizations

    NC AI Co., Ltd, Republic of Korea · Sogang University, Republic of Korea

  19. RW-Voice-EQ Bench: A Real World Benchmark for Evaluating Voice AI Systems

    Jul 16, 2026David Ayllon, Alice Baird, Jeffrey Brooks +11Voice AgentsLegal Natural Language Processing Benchmarks

    Hume AI Research

  20. MCP Server Architecture Patterns for LLM-Integrated Applications

    Jun 29, 2026Carson Rodrigues, Oysturn VasModel Context ProtocolVoice Agents

    Celabe · University of Waterloo

  21. Real-Time Voice AI Hears but Does Not Listen

    Jun 24, 2026Martijn Bartelds, Federico Bianchi, James ZouVoice AgentsVocalizations

    Together AI · Stanford University

  22. CORTIS: Text-Only Adaptation of Spoken Language Models for Task-Oriented Voice Agents

    Jun 19, 2026Youngwon Choi, Hyeonyu Kim, Taeyoun Kwon +2Voice AgentsText-Only Adaptation

    Maum AI Inc. · Seoul National University · Korea Culture Technology Institute +1

  23. IHBench: Evaluating Post-Interruption Recovery in Voice Agents with Structured Workflows

    Jun 17, 2026Ahmad Salimi, Wentao Ma, Yuzhi Tang +3Dialogue BenchmarksVoice Agents

    Boson AI Toronto, ON, Canada · Boson AI Santa Clara, CA, USA

  24. Exploring How Agent Voice Accents Shape Human-AI Collaboration in K-12 Group Learning

    Jun 11, 2026Prerna Ravi, Carúmey Stevens, Ben Hurt +3Voice AgentsCollaboration

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139, USA

  25. Audio-Mind: An Auditable Agentic Framework for Audio Understanding

    May 27, 2026Yucheng Wang, Jing Peng, Hanqi Li +6Audio UnderstandingVoice Agents

    School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, China · X-LANCE Lab, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China · School of Automation Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China +1

  26. DuIVRS-2: An LLM-based Interactive Voice Response System for Large-scale POI Attribute Acquisition

    May 18, 2026Le Zhang, Shengming Zhang, Rui Zha +3Voice AgentsLarge Language Model Agents

    Baidu Inc., Beijing, China

  27. From Text to Voice: A Reproducible and Verifiable Framework for Evaluating Tool Calling LLM Agents

    May 14, 2026Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Xue-Yong Fu, Seyyed Saeed Sarfjoo +3Voice AgentsSeed-Tts-Eval Benchmark

    Dialpad Inc.

  28. MIST: Multimodal Interactive Speech-based Tool-calling Conversational Assistants for Smart Homes

    May 7, 2026Maximillian Chen, Xuanming Zhang, Michael Peng +3Voice AgentsSmart Homes

    Columbia University · Seoul National University

  29. Voice Mapping of Text-to-Speech Systems: A Metric-Based Approach for Voice Quality Assessment

    Apr 21, 2026Huanchen Cai, Sten TernströmText-To-Speech SynthesisVoice Agents

    Division of Speech, Music and Hearing, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

  30. From Reactive to Proactive: Assessing the Proactivity of Voice Agents via ProVoice-Bench

    Apr 16, 2026Ke Xu, Yuhao Wang, Yu WangProactiveVoice Agents

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  31. Hijacking Large Audio-Language Models via Context-Agnostic and Imperceptible Auditory Prompt Injection

    Apr 16, 2026Meng Chen, Kun Wang, Li Lu +2Large Audio Language ModelsHijacking

    The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University · Hangzhou High-Tech Zone (Binjiang) Institute of Blockchain and Data Security · National University of Singapore +1

  32. Thinking While Speaking: Inference-Time Knowledge Transfer for Responsive and Intelligent Conversational Voice Agents

    Nov 10, 2025Vidya Srinivas, Zachary Englhardt, Vikram Iyer +1Full-Duplex Voice AgentsVoice Agents

    Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

  33. Robust Wake-Up Word Detection by Two-stage Multi-resolution Ensembles

    Oct 17, 2023Fernando López, Jordi Luque, Carlos Segura +1Sound Event DetectionUnsupervised Detection

    Telefónica I+D, Digital Life Disruption Lab, Spain · Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · Telefónica I+D, Research, Spain

  34. EVA-Bench: A New End-to-end Framework for Evaluating Voice Agents

    Date pendingTara Bogavelli, Gabrielle Gauthier Melançon, Katrina Stankiewicz +10Voice AgentsEvaluation Benchmarks

    ServiceNow AI Research