KAME: Tandem Architecture for Enhancing Knowledge in Real-Time Speech-to-Speech Conversational AI

–> （＊日本語は英文の後に） Can a speech AI think deeply without pausing to process? We’re excited to introduce KAME: Tandem Architecture for Enhancing Knowledge in Real-Time Speech-to-Speech Conversational AI, accepted at ICASSP2026! 🐢 In real conversation, we don’t wait until we’ve fully worked out what we want to say—we start talking, and our thoughts catch up as the sentence unfolds. Fast speech-to-speech models achieve this, but their reasoning tends to stay shallow.