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Stateful Inference Enhances Streaming ASR in Conversational Voice Agents

Streaming speech recognition models in voice agents face challenges from long silences and backchannels due to limited memory in real-time processing. Resetting state at each turn discards important conversational context, impacting performance.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-08-22T20:46:02+00:00 Detected 2026-08-25T05:20:32+00:00
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Streaming speech recognition models in voice agents face challenges from long silences and backchannels due to limited memory in real-time processing. Resetting state at each turn discards important conversational context, impacting performance.

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Modern voice-agent systems rely on streaming speech recognition models that operate under stringent latency constraints. This study shows that, due to the limited memory constraints of real-time processing, these systems are adversely impacted by conversational phenomena such as long silences and backchannels....

Improving stateful inference can help voice agents better handle natural conversational phenomena, leading to more accurate and responsive speech recognition under latency constraints. This advancement addresses a key limitation in current real-time voice-agent systems.

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