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Do Audio LLMs Listen Before They Act? Diagnosing Acoustic-Context Gating in Voice Agents
Audio language models can recognize spoken commands and invoke tools, but an agent must first decide whether the acoustic and conversational context warrants action. We introduce VGBench, a 1,018-item diagnostic benchmark for action-level addressedness across side-talk, self-talk, and speaker-switch scenarios. Each ite …