Zi-Hao Wang

Decode Before You Hear: Speculative Listening for Chunk-Interleaved Full-Duplex Speech Language Models

Chunk-interleaved full-duplex speech language models listen and speak in fixed time chunks, and each chunk must be processed before the next one arrives. Their workload is asymmetric across chunks: listen chunks leave compute idle while awaiting audio, and speak and tool-call chunks require serial generation, which del...