SpeechEQ: Benchmarking Emotional Intelligence Quotient in Socially Aware Voice Conversational Models
Researchers introduce SpeechEQ, a benchmarking framework that evaluates how well voice-based AI models understand emotional intelligence through multi-turn dialogue. The dataset of 2,265 dialogues reveals that current speech-language models fail to fully process paralinguistic cues, relying instead on text shortcuts and exhibiting contextual memory gaps.

