V\={a}kQA: A Benchmark and Evaluation Study for Telugu Spoken Factoid Question Answering

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arXiv:2609.19879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Question answering has advanced rapidly with large language models, but predominantly for high-resource languages, in both text and spoken settings. Spoken question answering (SQA) benchmark for Telugu remains unexplored, and the reliability of automatic evaluation in this setting remains unquantified. We introduce V\={a}kQA, a Telugu SQA benchmark of 2,001 factoid question-answer pairs across six domains, with 2.53 hours of speech audio, bilingual