PersonaKit (PK): A Plug-and-Play Platform for User Testing Diverse Roles in Full-Duplex Dialogue

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06007v1
• Date: Thu, 07 May 2026 11:00:03 GMT
• Title: PersonaKit (PK): A Plug-and-Play Platform for User Testing Diverse Roles in Full-Duplex Dialogue
• Abstract summary: We present PersonaKit, a low-source web platform for rapid prototyping and evaluation of conversational agents.<n>We show that PersonaKit provides an end-to-end framework for studying complex sociolinguistic behaviors in next-generation spoken agents.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: As spoken dialogue systems expand beyond traditional assistant roles to encompass diverse personas -- such as authoritative instructors, uncooperative merchants, or distracted workers -- they require distinct, human-like turn-taking behaviors to maintain psychological immersion. However, current full-duplex systems often default to a rigid, overly accommodating ``always-yield'' policy during overlapping speech, which severely undermines character consistency for non-submissive roles. Evaluating alternative, persona-specific turn-taking strategies through empirical user studies is challenging because building real-time full-duplex test environments requires substantial engineering overhead. To address this, we present PersonaKit (PK), an open-source, low-latency web platform for the rapid prototyping and evaluation of conversational agents. Using intuitive JSON configurations, researchers can define personas, specify probabilistic interruption-handling behaviors (e.g., yield, hold, bridge, or override), and automatically deploy comparative A/B surveys. Through an in-the-wild evaluation with 8 distinct personas, we demonstrate that PersonaKit provides an extensible, end-to-end framework for studying complex sociolinguistic behaviors in next-generation spoken agents.

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