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    Shizuku AI describes a Japanese voice model that listens while speaking

    Shizuku AI published research on Shizuku-Duplex, a Japanese conversation model designed to listen, speak, handle interruptions and keep talking while a separate model works on web lookups. In the company’s evaluation, it handled several turn-taking tests better than older Japanese systems, though answer quality trailed OpenAI’s GPT-Live. The article shows recordings but does not announce public API access or released model weights.

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