Dual-system voice agents balance live conversation with slower tool use

SALMONN-duo delegates difficult requests to an asynchronous reasoning agent while keeping a fast speech model responsive to the user.

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Wenyi Yu · Siyin Wang · Terumi Chiba · Xianzhao Chen · Xiaohai Tian · Jun Zhang · +2 more

Tsinghua University · ByteDance

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The authors pair an always-active, full-duplex speech model with a slower backend agent that can reason and use tools.

The authors built SALMONN-duo around two coordinated components.

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From ByteDance and Tsinghua University

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Adaptive delegation between fast and slow reasoning enables full-duplex voice agents to balance real-time interaction with complex task accuracy.

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