@inproceedings{das-etal-2026-audio, title = "Audio Front-End Decoupling: Why Synthetic-Voice Simulators Fail to Predict Real-World Voice Agent Behavior", author = "Das, Shoutrik and Agrawal, Suraj and Sachdeva, Aashraya", editor = "Atanasova, Pepa and Haffari, Gholamreza and Wang, Minghan", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-industry.226/", pages = "3781--3801", ISBN = "979-8-89176-460-6" }