CharDuplex: Building Character-Consistent Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Models

Donghang Wu; Yisi Liu; Chen Chen; Hexin Liu; Eng Siong Chng

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CharDuplex: Building Character-Consistent Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Models

Donghang Wu·Yisi Liu·Chen Chen·Hexin Liu·Eng Siong Chng

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Abstract

Full-duplex speech models are moving voice interaction beyond conventional turn-taking, yet natural conversation is shaped not only by when an agent speaks, but also by how it behaves as a conversational character. We present CharDuplex, a character-driven full-duplex speech model that combines real-time spoken interaction with persona-conditioned behavior. We first adapt GLM-4-Voice to an always-on dual-stream architecture and train the model for full-duplex conversation. Then a fully automated pipeline constructs character-conditioned dialogue data from open-source character descriptions for character-conditioned supervised fine-tuning. The model is further refined with the proposed FDGym, where an LLM-simulated user dynamically interacts with the model, enabling reinforcement learning over evolving multi-turn interactions. On SpeechRole-Eval, CharDuplex achieves the highest average score among the evaluated open-source models, while remaining competitive with closed-source systems. It also demonstrates competitive general speech intelligence and strong full-duplex interaction capabilities. CharDuplex demonstrates a practical training recipe for building full-duplex voice assistants that are not only interactive, but also character-consistent.

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Donghang Wu, Yisi Liu, Chen Chen, Hexin Liu, Eng Siong Chng. 2026-09-28. CharDuplex: Building Character-Consistent Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Models. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.34461

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