NSV-Shift: A Contrastive Benchmark for Non-Speech Vocalization Understanding and Response Adaptation in Speech-to-Speech Models

arXiv:2609.33899 · cs.CL, cs.HC · Submitted 2026-09-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.HC

Submitted: 2026-09-27

Updated: 2026-09-27

Code: https://github.com/ChenzwNina/nsv-construction

Terminology

• Accuracy — 13× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Verification — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

Sources

• WhisperX: Time-Accurate Speech Transcription of Long-Form Audio
• EchoMind: An Interrelated Multi-level Benchmark for Evaluating Empathetic Speech Language Models

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