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ECHO: A Matched-Contrast Benchmark for Context-Sensitive Turn-Taking in Full-Duplex Dialogue

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 15, 2026 · UTC

Full-duplex spoken dialogue systems must distinguish interruptions that require yielding the floor from backchannels that permit continued speaking. Existing benchmarks typically evaluate events independently and may therefore reward fixed action preferences rather than context-sensitive decisions. We introduce ECHO, a paired diagnostic benchmark for Chinese full-duplex turn-taking. ECHO pairs examples with the same overlap transcript but contrasting preceding multi-turn dialogue contexts, with one requiring Yield and the other Keep. It additionally includes off-talk examples for diagnosing un

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