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Evaluating Speech-to-Speech Voice Agents Beyond Tool-Calling Benchmarks

Speech-to-speech (S2S) voice agents are increasingly used in enterprise customer care and as daily companions due to their conversational ease. Current benchmarks inadequately evaluate these agents by focusing mainly on tool-calling against databases, missing key performance aspects.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-08-11T09:34:39+00:00 Detected 2026-08-12T05:20:43+00:00
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Speech-to-speech (S2S) voice agents are increasingly used in enterprise customer care and as daily companions due to their conversational ease. Current benchmarks inadequately evaluate these agents by focusing mainly on tool-calling against databases, missing key performance aspects.

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Speech-to-speech (S2S) voice agents are increasingly being incorporated into enterprise for customer care and as daily companions for consumers owing to the ease of the conversational modality over text. However, existing benchmarks fail to holistically evaluate voice agents along axes that really matter and are...

Better evaluation methods are needed to fully understand and improve voice agents' effectiveness in real-world interactions. This can enhance their utility in both customer service and consumer daily use.

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