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Improving Voice User Simulators with Realistic Speech Naturalness Behaviors

Voice user simulators are being enhanced to include realistic speech behaviors like disfluency, interruption, and backchanneling to better evaluate voice agents. The quality of these simulators directly impacts the accuracy of agent performance assessments.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-10-07T23:55:27+00:00 Detected 2026-10-09T05:20:55+00:00
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Voice user simulators are being enhanced to include realistic speech behaviors like disfluency, interruption, and backchanneling to better evaluate voice agents. The quality of these simulators directly impacts the accuracy of agent performance assessments.

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As voice agents gain more popularity commercially, the user simulators used to evaluate the deployed agents are also being developed to include more realistic, variable, and diverse speech naturalness behaviors -- disfluency, interruption and backchanneling. The quality of the user simulator directly affects the...

As voice agents become more commercially popular, accurate evaluation through advanced simulators ensures more reliable performance insights. This helps developers create more natural and effective voice interactions.

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