Discourse-Aware Dual-Track Streaming Response for Low-Latency Spoken Dialogue Systems

Siyuan Liu, Jiahui Xu, Feng Jiang, Kuang Wang, Zefeng Zhao et al.|February 26, 2026arXiv

Key Takeaway

Voice assistants can respond 19-51% faster by processing speech, reasoning, and speech generation in parallel instead of waiting for each step to f...

Summary

This paper solves a real problem with voice assistants: they're slow because they wait for you to finish talking, then transcribe everything, think about the answer, and finally speak. The new DDTSR system lets the AI start responding while still listening and thinking—like a human conversation.

efficiency agents architecture

Key Terms

streaming-inference cascaded-pipeline discourse-coherence curriculum-learning