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Daniel García

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#small language model Open access Oct 2026

Asking Instead of Listening: A Semantic Voice Activity Detector for Turn Decisions

While acoustic Voice Activity Detection (VAD) determines the presence of speech, conversational voice pipelines require semantic decision-making to handle turn-taking dynamics. This paper introduces jev-vad, a lightweight, model-agnostic semantic VAD layer that replaces heuristic barge-in and end-of-turn predictions wi...

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