TurnBench: A Multi-Domain Benchmark for Turn-Taking Dynamics in Spoken Dialogue · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2608.25218/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTTurnBench: A Multi-Domain Benchmark for Turn-Taking Dynamics in Spoken Dialogue — mentioned by freemanjianghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49482886urn:hackerpapers:mention:2608.25218:49482886Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:57:58 GMT<p>Hi! I&#x27;m Freeman, a research engineer at Sesame. I&#x27;m the developer of the turnbench.sesame.com website and also a co-author. For the past bit, I&#x27;ve been working on models for real-time conversation at Sesame. We wanted an evaluation for turn-taking, the understanding of when to speak and when to yield in a natural dialogue. I wanted to make sure the benchmark felt very accessible and understandable to people, so I built this in-browser dataset viewer at https://turnbench.sesame.com/conversations - it lets you inspect the audio directly with overlaid annotations. I thought HN might find it…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2608.25218/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>eess.AS