V\={a}kQA: A Benchmark and Evaluation Study for Telugu Spoken Factoid Question Answering
V\={a}kQA, a Telugu SQA benchmark of 2,001 factoid question-answer pairs across six domains, is introduced and it is observed that Telugu phrasing retains cultural specificity that is lost in translation, speech input introduces phonetic confusions that alter question meaning, and cascaded ASR-MT errors compound progre...