Abstract
Language models provide a plug-and-play interface between humans and robots, but important challenges remain when speech, dialogue, fast interaction, and collaboration are required. We propose a benchmark for the community to use as a way to explore common spoken dialogue artifacts between robots and humans, including requests for clarification, interruptions, embodied signals (e.g., head nods or facial cues), and time constraints. We also explain our vision to extend the benchmark for other aspects of human-robot interaction that are important to the larger research community. To facilitate the benchmark, we further propose using \textit{Retico}, a real-time communication framework that fulfills important technical requirements to enable robots to have spoken dialogue capabilities.
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APA 7
Kennington, C., Mead, R., Elbeleidy, S., & Thomason, J. (2026). Towards an Extensible Benchmark for Spoken Dialogue with Social Robots. https://omanscience.com/en/articles/towards-an-extensible-benchmark-for-spoken-dialogue-with-social-robots
MLA 9
Kennington, Casey, et al. "Towards an Extensible Benchmark for Spoken Dialogue with Social Robots." https://omanscience.com/en/articles/towards-an-extensible-benchmark-for-spoken-dialogue-with-social-robots.
Chicago (author–date)
Kennington, Casey, Ross Mead, Saad Elbeleidy, and Jesse Thomason. 2026. "Towards an Extensible Benchmark for Spoken Dialogue with Social Robots." https://omanscience.com/en/articles/towards-an-extensible-benchmark-for-spoken-dialogue-with-social-robots.
Harvard
Kennington, C., Mead, R., Elbeleidy, S. and Thomason, J. (2026) 'Towards an Extensible Benchmark for Spoken Dialogue with Social Robots', Available at: https://omanscience.com/en/articles/towards-an-extensible-benchmark-for-spoken-dialogue-with-social-robots.
Vancouver
Kennington C, Mead R, Elbeleidy S, Thomason J. Towards an Extensible Benchmark for Spoken Dialogue with Social Robots. https://omanscience.com/en/articles/towards-an-extensible-benchmark-for-spoken-dialogue-with-social-robots
IEEE
C. Kennington, R. Mead, S. Elbeleidy, and J. Thomason, "Towards an Extensible Benchmark for Spoken Dialogue with Social Robots," https://omanscience.com/en/articles/towards-an-extensible-benchmark-for-spoken-dialogue-with-social-robots.