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Stream RAG: Instant and Accurate Spoken Dialogue Systems with Streaming Tool Usage
Siddhant Arora, Haidar Khan, Kai Sun, Xin Luna Dong, Sajal Choudhary, Seungwhan Moon, Xinyuan Zhang, Adithya Sagar, Surya Teja Appini, Kaushik Patnaik, Sanat Sharma, Shinji Watanabe, Anuj Kumar, Ahmed Aly, Yue Liu, Florian Metze, Zhaojiang Lin
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Stream RAG: Instant and Accurate Spoken Dialogue Systems with Streaming Tool Usage
End-to-end speech-in speech-out dialogue systems are emerging as a powerful alternative to traditional ASR-LLM-TTS pipelines, generating more natural, expressive responses with significantly lower latency. However, these systems remain prone to hallucinations due to limited factual grounding. While text-based dialogue systems address this challenge by integrating tools such as web search and knowledge graph APIs, we introduce the first approach to extend tool use directly into speech-in speech-…