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arxiv: 2604.14548 · v2 · submitted 2026-04-16 · 💻 cs.SD · cs.LG· eess.AS

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VoxSafeBench: Not Just What Is Said, but Who, How, and Where

Dekun Chen, Hongyu Liu, Jie Shi, Kunyu Feng, Lei Wang, Li Wang, Qinke Ni, Wan Lin, Xu Tan, Yijiang Xu, Yuxiang Wang, Zhizheng Wu

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The pith

Speech language models recognize social norms in text but fail to apply them when the decisive cues are acoustic.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents VoxSafeBench to evaluate whether speech language models can handle safety, fairness, and privacy decisions that depend on speaker identity, tone, or surroundings instead of words alone. It splits evaluation into content risks testable by text or audio and harder cases where only the audio makes a request risky despite a benign transcript. Perception checks confirm models often notice the acoustic signals yet still produce misaligned responses. The results show text-based safeguards weaken once speech context is required, across 22 bilingual tasks. This gap matters for models moving into shared devices where ignoring who is speaking or how they sound can produce unsafe or unfair outputs.

Core claim

VoxSafeBench adopts a Two-Tier design: Tier1 evaluates content-centric risks using matched text and audio inputs, while Tier2 targets audio-conditioned risks in which the transcript is benign but the appropriate response hinges on the speaker, paralinguistic cues, or the surrounding environment. Intermediate perception probes confirm that frontier SLMs can successfully detect these acoustic cues yet still fail to act on them appropriately. Across the tasks, safeguards appearing robust on text often degrade in speech: safety awareness drops for speaker- and scene-conditioned risks, fairness erodes when demographic differences are conveyed vocally, and privacy protections falter when cues are,

What carries the argument

The Two-Tier design of VoxSafeBench, which separates content risks from audio-conditioned risks and validates the latter with perception probes that test cue detection separate from response behavior.

Load-bearing premise

The benchmark tasks represent meaningful real-world risks and the perception probes accurately isolate detection from appropriate action on acoustic cues.

What would settle it

A frontier SLM that detects the relevant acoustic cues in Tier2 probes and then produces the context-appropriate response in the corresponding safety, fairness, or privacy tasks would falsify the claimed grounding gap.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.14548 by Dekun Chen, Hongyu Liu, Jie Shi, Kunyu Feng, Lei Wang, Li Wang, Qinke Ni, Wan Lin, Xu Tan, Yijiang Xu, Yuxiang Wang, Zhizheng Wu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the VoxSafeBench. We evaluate social alignment of speech language models through three pillars (safety, fairness, and privacy) under a Two-Tier design that separates content￾centric risks (Tier 1) from audio-conditioned risks (Tier 2), where the same benign transcript becomes unsafe, unfair, or privacy-violating due to speech-native cues. consequential context carried by speech? Beyond lexical … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Tier 1 safety evaluation. Left: Safety degradation trajectories in the Refuse to Answer (RtA)–Toxicity score2 plane under escalating adversarial attacks: No Jailbreak (◦), Single-turn (□), and Multi-turn (△). The safe region lies in the top-left (high RtA, low Toxicity). Dashed/solid lines denote text/audio modalities; red/blue distinguish reasoning (Thinking/Pro) and standard variants. Right: Agentic RtA … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Net Bias Score (%) across five dimensions. Blue/Orange dots denote English/Chinese queries. Positive values (right) reflect alignment with societal stereotypes; negative values (left) indicate counter-stereotype biases. The connecting gray line highlights the language bias gap. Asterisks (∗ ) denote statistical significance (p < 0.05) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: (a) Interactional privacy: Precision–recall (English/Chinese); contours show F1 and marker size encodes accuracy (0.50 ≈ random guessing). (b) Inferential privacy: Refusal-to-Answer (RtA) vs. inference accuracy (ACC) on five sensitive attributes from HearSay [7]. Error bars denote standard deviation; safer models lie in the bottom-right region (high RtA, low ACC). do not transfer reliably to speech. (ii) H… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Detailed task taxonomy of the VoxSafeBench in the appendix. This figure complements the conceptual overview in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Overview of our dataset-construction pipeline. We combine adapted benchmarks, LLM￾assisted generation, and off-the-shelf resources; clean and revise candidate texts for spoken use; synthesize or record audio with a curated prompt-audio pool; inject Tier 2 acoustic cues; filter by intelligibility; and finally release Tier 1 and Tier 2 evaluation sets with human verification. manual recording when tighter co… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Radar breakdown of Tier 1 safety outcomes by harmful-content class and jailbreak type. We overlay (a) no-jailbreak results for the three content super-categories (A: Crimes & Physical Harm; B: Social Toxicity & Norm Violations; C: Hazardous Advice & Misinformation) and (b) single￾turn jailbreak results for four attack families (Obfuscation, Policy Override, Reverse Inducement, Role-play). Each spoke corres… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Impact of acoustic disturbance on single-turn jailbreak robustness. We report the Refusal￾to-Answer (RtA, %) for each model with and without acoustic disturbances (e.g., emotional pressure and paralinguistic variations). Higher RtA indicates better safety robustness. Across most models, acoustic disturbances lead to a noticeable drop in RtA in both English and Chinese, demonstrating that paralinguistic man… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Average intermediate probe accuracy and matched safety performance on the four directly matched open-ended safety Tier 2 subtasks: Child Voice, Emotion, Impaired Capacity, and Child Presence. Blue points denote intermediate probe accuracy; orange points denote the corresponding Safety Awareness Rate (SAR) from [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p064_9.png] view at source ↗
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As speech language models (SLMs) transition from personal devices into shared, multi-user environments, their responses must account for far more than the words alone. Who is speaking, how they sound, and where the conversation takes place can each turn an otherwise benign request into one that is unsafe, unfair, or privacy-violating. Existing benchmarks, however, largely focus on basic audio comprehension, study individual risks in isolation, or conflate content that is inherently harmful with content that only becomes problematic due to its acoustic context. We introduce VoxSafeBench, among the first benchmarks to jointly evaluate social alignment in SLMs across three dimensions: safety, fairness, and privacy. VoxSafeBench adopts a Two-Tier design: Tier1 evaluates content-centric risks using matched text and audio inputs, while Tier2 targets audio-conditioned risks in which the transcript is benign but the appropriate response hinges on the speaker, paralinguistic cues, or the surrounding environment. To validate Tier2, we include intermediate perception probes and confirm that frontier SLMs can successfully detect these acoustic cues yet still fail to act on them appropriately. Across 22 tasks with bilingual coverage, we find that safeguards appearing robust on text often degrade in speech: safety awareness drops for speaker- and scene-conditioned risks, fairness erodes when demographic differences are conveyed vocally, and privacy protections falter when contextual cues arrive acoustically. Together, these results expose a pervasive speech grounding gap: current SLMs frequently recognize the relevant social norm in text but fail to apply it when the decisive cue must be grounded in speech. Code and data are publicly available at: https://amphionteam.github.io/VoxSafeBench_demopage/

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces VoxSafeBench, a benchmark for evaluating social alignment in speech language models (SLMs) across safety, fairness, and privacy. It uses a Two-Tier design: Tier1 assesses content-centric risks via matched text and audio inputs, while Tier2 targets audio-conditioned risks where the transcript is benign but the appropriate response depends on speaker identity, paralinguistic cues, or environment. Perception probes are included to validate that frontier SLMs detect these acoustic cues yet fail to act on them, and evaluations across 22 bilingual tasks show consistent degradation in safeguards when moving from text to speech.

Significance. If the results hold, the identification of a pervasive speech grounding gap in current SLMs is significant for safe deployment in multi-user environments. The public release of code and data supports reproducibility and enables follow-up work. The two-tier structure with intermediate probes is a useful methodological contribution for isolating detection from application of acoustic context.

major comments (2)
  1. [Tier2 validation and perception probes] The central claim that models detect acoustic cues via perception probes but fail to apply them in Tier2 responses is load-bearing for the speech-grounding-gap conclusion, yet the manuscript provides no details on probe task construction, statistical methods, sample sizes, or error analysis (as noted in the abstract's validation description). This leaves the support for the claim insufficiently visible.
  2. [Evaluation results across 22 tasks] The reported degradation in safety awareness, fairness, and privacy across the 22 tasks is presented without quantitative tables, effect sizes, significance tests, or controls for audio quality/transcript accuracy, making it difficult to assess whether the text-to-speech drop is robust or confounded.
minor comments (2)
  1. Specify the exact languages covered in the bilingual tasks and how balance was ensured across safety/fairness/privacy dimensions.
  2. List the specific SLMs evaluated (frontier models referenced in the abstract) and any baseline comparisons in the results section.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive review and for recognizing the significance of the speech-grounding gap and the utility of the two-tier design. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to strengthen the visibility and rigor of our claims.

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  1. Referee: [Tier2 validation and perception probes] The central claim that models detect acoustic cues via perception probes but fail to apply them in Tier2 responses is load-bearing for the speech-grounding-gap conclusion, yet the manuscript provides no details on probe task construction, statistical methods, sample sizes, or error analysis (as noted in the abstract's validation description). This leaves the support for the claim insufficiently visible.

    Authors: We agree that the current manuscript does not provide sufficient detail on the perception probes, which weakens the support for the central claim. In the revised manuscript we will add a new subsection (Section 3.3) that fully specifies: (i) probe task construction, including how speaker-identity, paralinguistic, and scene cues were generated and human-validated; (ii) statistical methods (accuracy, macro-F1, and confusion matrices); (iii) exact sample sizes (200–300 examples per probe category, balanced across the 22 tasks); and (iv) error analysis that categorizes detection failures versus application failures. These additions will make the evidence for the speech-grounding gap transparent and directly address the referee’s concern. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Evaluation results across 22 tasks] The reported degradation in safety awareness, fairness, and privacy across the 22 tasks is presented without quantitative tables, effect sizes, significance tests, or controls for audio quality/transcript accuracy, making it difficult to assess whether the text-to-speech drop is robust or confounded.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the evaluation results are currently presented at too high a level. We will expand the 'Experiments and Results' section with: (i) complete per-task and aggregated quantitative tables for text versus speech performance; (ii) effect sizes (Cohen’s d) for each degradation; (iii) statistical significance tests (paired t-tests with Bonferroni correction and reported p-values); and (iv) explicit controls, including ASR word-error-rate statistics (<5 % on our test set) and audio-quality metrics (PESQ and manual verification of cue presence). These revisions will allow readers to evaluate the robustness of the observed text-to-speech drops. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper is an empirical benchmark introduction and evaluation with no mathematical derivations, equations, fitted parameters, or self-referential predictions. The Two-Tier design, perception probes, and reported degradations in safety/fairness/privacy follow directly from the described tasks and external evaluations on frontier SLMs; public code/data release further removes any internal circular burden. No load-bearing step reduces to its own inputs by construction or via self-citation chains.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claim rests on domain assumptions about what constitutes audio-conditioned risk and the validity of perception probes, with no free parameters or invented entities required for the benchmark design.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Acoustic cues such as speaker identity, paralinguistic features, and environmental context can change the safety, fairness, or privacy implications of an otherwise benign spoken request.
    This premise directly motivates the Tier2 design where transcripts are benign but responses must condition on audio.

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