NVIDIA Releases NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B: An Open Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech Model with ~450 ms Turn-Taking and Live Tool Calling
NVIDIA has launched NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B, an open 11B end-to-end speech-to-speech mannequin for real-time, full-duplex dialog. Instead of chaining ASR, an LLM, and TTS, it performs streaming speech understanding and speech technology in a single unified community. That removes the multi-model orchestration and API handoffs a cascaded stack requires, and cuts end-to-end latency: measured {smooth}…
