ConversationalVoice: Full-Duplex Speech Data from Real Conversations through Source-Faithful Reconstruction and Conversation-Grounded Expansion
cs.CL, cs.SD, eess.AS
Submitted: 2026-09-08
Updated: 2026-09-08
Comments: 12 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, preprint
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: Full-duplex speech models require training data that preserves turn-taking, overlap, interruption, and backchannel behavior, yet these signals are entangled across speakers in noisy real-world
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Abstract
Full-duplex speech models require training data that preserves turn-taking, overlap, interruption, and backchannel behavior, yet these signals are entangled across speakers in noisy real-world recordings. We present Conversational Voice, a pipeline that converts real two-speaker excerpts into three complementary training-data artifacts. (1) Separation recovers speaker-specific tracks with stable speaker assignments, a canonical transcript, and naturally observed interaction timing. (2) Reconstruction generates speech in matched voices from a fixed source transcript, reconstructs the source turn order, pauses, and overlaps, and adds word-level alignment and delivery instructions. (3) Expansion generates new dialogue constrained by the source context, speakers, and observed interaction pattern. Automatic speaker-verification metrics remain strong across stages, with same-speaker similarity of 0.983-0.991 and positive discrimination margins of 0.199-0.209. Predicted speech quality (NISQA MOS) is 3.56 for separation, 4.41 for reconstruction, and 4.61 for expansion. A Gemini-based automatic evaluator assigns expansion mean scores of 4.94/5 for contextual coherence and 4.80/5 for dialogue naturalness. Expansion and reconstruction exhibit broadly similar interaction profiles; expansion's turn, overlap-event, backchannel, and interruption rates are 4.6%, 8.0%, 13.2%, and 16.0% lower, respectively. We evaluate data properties only; downstream gains in full-duplex model training remain for future work.
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