Voice-Light: A Full-Duplex Cascaded Voice Agent with Causal Turn-Taking and Speculative Generation
Natural spoken interaction requires more than streaming ASR, language generation, and speech synthesis: a system must react to overlap without canceling on every acknowledgment, prepare a response before a turn is certain, and ensure canceled audio cannot enter conversation history. We present Voice-Light, a full-duplex cascaded voice agent that combines immediate acoustic onset, a causal adapter sharing a streaming ASR encoder, reversible playback control, and private speculative response generation. Structured tool calls execute concurrently with audible bridge speech, while browser acknowledgments make rendered audio authoritative for durable history. Locked evaluation on 1,673 real-co...
| Authors | Bertil Braun |
|---|---|
| Primary category | cs.SD |
| Published | 17 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 17 September 2026 |
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