Open voice model combines real-time conversation with native tool calling

NVIDIA’s unified streaming system can listen, speak, handle interruptions, and produce structured function calls during full-duplex conversation.

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Jagadeesh Balam · Travis Bartley · Edresson Casanova · Sanjay Chauhan · Chen Chen · Zhehuai Chen · +43 more

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The authors built NemotronLabs VoiceChat, an open speech-to-speech model that processes incoming audio while simultaneously generating speech, text, and tool calls.

The authors combined a streaming speech encoder with a decoder-only language model and streaming text-to-speech decoder.

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NemotronLabs VoiceChat is a full-duplex speech-to-speech model that natively invokes tools during conversation.

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