TELEVAL: A Dynamic Benchmark Designed for Spoken Language Models in Chinese Interactive Scenarios

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18061v1
• Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 03:23:55 GMT
• Title: TELEVAL: A Dynamic Benchmark Designed for Spoken Language Models in Chinese Interactive Scenarios
• Authors: Zehan Li, Hongjie Chen, Yuxin Zhang, Jing Zhou, Xuening Wang, Hang Lv, Mengjie Du, Yaodong Song, Jie Lian, Jian Kang, Jie Li, Yongxiang Li, Zhongjiang He, Xuelong Li,
• Abstract summary: Spoken language models (SLMs) have seen rapid progress in recent years, along with the development of numerous benchmarks for evaluating their performance.<n>Most existing benchmarks primarily focus on evaluating whether SLMs can perform complex tasks comparable to those tackled by large language models (LLMs)<n>We propose a benchmark specifically designed to evaluate SLMs' effectiveness as conversational agents in realistic Chinese interactive settings.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Spoken language models (SLMs) have seen rapid progress in recent years, along with the development of numerous benchmarks for evaluating their performance. However, most existing benchmarks primarily focus on evaluating whether SLMs can perform complex tasks comparable to those tackled by large language models (LLMs), often failing to align with how users naturally interact in real-world conversational scenarios. In this paper, we propose TELEVAL, a dynamic benchmark specifically designed to evaluate SLMs' effectiveness as conversational agents in realistic Chinese interactive settings. TELEVAL defines three evaluation dimensions: Explicit Semantics, Paralinguistic and Implicit Semantics, and System Abilities. It adopts a dialogue format consistent with real-world usage and evaluates text and audio outputs separately. TELEVAL particularly focuses on the model's ability to extract implicit cues from user speech and respond appropriately without additional instructions. Our experiments demonstrate that despite recent progress, existing SLMs still have considerable room for improvement in natural conversational tasks. We hope that TELEVAL can serve as a user-centered evaluation framework that directly reflects the user experience and contributes to the development of more capable dialogue-oriented SLMs.

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