Speech-to-Speech
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Technology that transforms spoken input directly into spoken output.
Why it's here
Placed in Assess: 3 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by product launches, with 1 in the last 30 days. Confidence 42%.
Evidence (3)
- 7Hugging Face Blog·7/15/2026researchHume AI unveils Real World VoiceEQ for evaluating voice AI quality
Hume AI introduced Real World VoiceEQ, a benchmark for measuring the human quality of voice AI across speech recognition, text-to-speech, speech-to-speech, and speech understanding. Built from over 1 million human ratings, it evaluates more than 40 models across 15+ dimensions and suggests current voice systems are increasingly specialized rather than having a single best performer.
- 6Hugging Face Blog·5/27/2026product_launchReachy Mini can now run fully locally
Hugging Face announced that Reachy Mini’s conversation stack can now run entirely on local hardware instead of sending audio to a server. The setup uses a cascaded speech-to-speech pipeline with llama.cpp, Silero VAD, Parakeet-TDT 0.6B v3 for STT, and Qwen3-TTS, enabling private offline conversations with the robot.
- 7Hugging Face Blog·3/24/2026framework_updateHugging Face Blog Introduces EVA for Voice Agent Evaluation
ServiceNow AI researchers present EVA, an end-to-end framework for evaluating conversational voice agents across both task accuracy and spoken interaction quality. The framework outputs two scores, EVA-A and EVA-X, and ships with an airline dataset plus benchmark results for cascade and audio-native systems.