diff --git a/examples/voicechat/README.md b/examples/voicechat/README.md
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@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ not implemented.
 | [Offline WAV inference](offline-inference.md) | Run a prerecorded WAV through direct SGLang engine sessions |
 | [Deploy and run](deploy.md) | Start both services and use microphone or WAV clients |
 | [API reference](api-reference.md) | HTTP/WebSocket endpoints, events, audio formats, errors, and limits |
+| [Accuracy validation](accuracy.md) | Measured agreement with the reference implementation, and what is not compared |
 
 Start with [Prerequisites](prerequisites.md). After converting the checkpoint
 into `duplex/` and `eartts/`, choose [Offline WAV inference](offline-inference.md)
diff --git a/examples/voicechat/accuracy.md b/examples/voicechat/accuracy.md
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+# Accuracy validation
+
+The SGLang VoiceChat stages were validated against the
+[vLLM-Omni](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni) implementation of the same
+checkpoint, added in [vllm-omni#5842](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/pull/5842),
+on a 15.61 s reference sample — 196 acoustic frames on the frame-locked 12.5 Hz
+timeline. SGLang runs the thinker in bfloat16; the vLLM-Omni reference runs
+float32.
+
+| stage | comparison | result |
+|---|---|---|
+| Thinker (`NemotronDuplexHForCausalLM`) | frame-locked text timeline, token for token | **196/196 (100%)** |
+| Audio to text, end to end | sidecar perception into the thinker, against the same reference timeline | **196/196 (100%)** |
+
+The second row is the deployed path: a WAV in, a text timeline out, through the
+sidecar's streaming perception encoder and the SGLang thinker together.
+
+## Perception and codec are NeMo modules on both sides
+
+`nemo_audio_sidecar.py` imports `PerceptionCacheManager` and `RVQVAEModel` from
+`nemo.collections.speechlm2`, and the reference implementation uses the same
+modules. Comparing them directly measures streaming behaviour rather than model
+correctness: the sidecar encodes frame by frame with a cache, while the reference
+encodes the whole utterance at once.
+
+That difference is small and deterministic — cosine similarity 0.99943, maximum
+absolute difference 2.8e-02, identical with the perception CUDA graph enabled or
+disabled — and it changes no tokens on this sample.
+
+## The talker is not compared
+
+`EarTTSForCausalLM` samples. MaskGIT runs `num_iter=8` and draws twice per
+iteration: a Gumbel mixture selection, and the residual noise added to the
+predicted mean. Two implementations therefore consume independent RNG streams in
+their own order, so two *correct* implementations still agree on only about 50%
+of codes. Measured agreement against the reference is 49.95%, which is the
+expected result rather than a defect.
+
+No seed closes that gap. Matching would require both implementations to consume
+the RNG identically, at which point the comparison no longer tests two
+implementations. Validating the talker against a reference would instead mean
+comparing pre-sampling distributions, teacher-forced on the reference's own
+codes, rather than the emitted codes themselves.
+
+## Scope
+
+These are single-sample results on the reference input. They demonstrate exact
+agreement on that sample. They are not a claim that the streaming perception path
+is numerically equivalent to full-utterance encoding in general.
diff --git a/test/manual/voicechat_thinker_parity.py b/test/manual/voicechat_thinker_parity.py
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+"""Frame-locked parity check for the VoiceChat thinker.
+
+Drives NemotronDuplexHForCausalLM over a streaming session and compares the
+emitted text timeline against a reference, token for token.
+
+The thinker decodes greedily, so this is a true parity check: its timeline can
+be compared against another implementation of the same model and must agree
+exactly. Any mismatch is a real regression, and the first divergent frame is
+printed with surrounding context.
+
+The talker (EarTTSForCausalLM) is not covered here and cannot be checked this
+way: it samples, so two implementations draw from independent RNG streams and
+disagree on roughly half the codes even when both are correct.
+
+Acoustic frames are supplied as a saved tensor rather than computed here, so the
+test depends only on the thinker: no encoder, no audio stack, no sidecar.
+
+Sampling must stay greedy with ignore_eos. Never set min_tokens -- the
+tokenizer's EOS doubles as the PAD/silence token the model emits on silent
+frames, so masking it forces speech through the entire utterance.
+
+The timeline is frame-locked at 12.5 Hz, so the reply budget is the input
+duration. An input without enough trailing silence truncates the reply
+*silently*; this test then reports a length mismatch rather than anything more
+obviously diagnostic.
+
+Usage:
+    python voicechat_thinker_parity.py \
+        --checkpoint /path/to/NVIDIA-NemotronLabs-VoiceChat-11B \
+        --thinker-stage /path/to/converted/duplex \
+        --acoustic-frames frames.pt \
+        --reference-tokens reference_text_tokens.json
+
+No reference is checked in, since these artifacts are large and binary. Pass
+--emit without --reference-tokens to run the stage and write its timeline
+instead of comparing, so a reference can be captured once from a known-good
+commit and used to gate later changes. frames.pt is the perception stage's
+output, [N, hidden], and is the only input these tests do not produce
+themselves.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import pathlib
+import sys
+
+import torch
+
+# Must match the prompt the reference implementation was run with. The prompt
+# occupies the leading timeline rows, so any difference shifts every frame
+# after it and looks like a thinker bug rather than a harness mismatch.
+DEFAULT_SYSTEM_PROMPT = (
+    "You are an AI voice assistant developed by NVIDIA. "
+    "Your name is NVIDIA Voice Chat. "
+    "Answer in a spoken, conversational style rather than a written one. "
+    "Do not repeat the same sentence over and over again. "
+    "Start the conversation by greeting the user."
+)
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description=__doc__, formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter
+    )
+    ap.add_argument("--checkpoint", required=True)
+    ap.add_argument("--thinker-stage", required=True)
+    ap.add_argument(
+        "--acoustic-frames",
+        required=True,
+        help="saved [N, hidden] tensor of encoder output",
+    )
+    ap.add_argument("--reference-tokens", help="json list of reference text token ids")
+    ap.add_argument(
+        "--system-prompt",
+        default=DEFAULT_SYSTEM_PROMPT,
+        help="must match the prompt the reference was captured with; a "
+        "mismatch shifts the whole timeline and reads as a thinker bug",
+    )
+    ap.add_argument("--emit", help="optional path to write the emitted timeline")
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+    if args.reference_tokens is None and not args.emit:
+        ap.error(
+            "pass --reference-tokens to compare against, or --emit to write a new reference"
+        )
+
+    cfg = json.loads((pathlib.Path(args.checkpoint) / "config.json").read_text())
+    stt = cfg["model"]["stt"]["model"]
+
+    frames = torch.load(
+        args.acoustic_frames, map_location="cpu", weights_only=True
+    ).float()
+    if frames.dim() != 2:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"--acoustic-frames must be [N, hidden]; got {tuple(frames.shape)}"
+        )
+    n_frames = frames.shape[0]
+
+    from transformers import AutoTokenizer
+
+    tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(stt["pretrained_llm"], trust_remote_code=False)
+    bos = tok.convert_tokens_to_ids(stt.get("bos_token", "<s>"))
+    eos = tok.convert_tokens_to_ids(stt.get("eos_token", "</s>"))
+    pad = tok.convert_tokens_to_ids(stt.get("pad_token", "<SPECIAL_12>"))
+    prompt_ids = (
+        [bos] + tok.encode(args.system_prompt, add_special_tokens=False) + [eos]
+    )
+    print(f"frames={n_frames} prompt={len(prompt_ids)} pad={pad}")
+
+    from sglang import Engine
+
+    engine = Engine(
+        model_path=args.thinker_stage,
+        dtype="bfloat16",
+        mem_fraction_static=0.75,
+        context_length=8192,
+        max_running_requests=2,
+        skip_tokenizer_init=True,
+        enable_streaming_session=True,
+        log_level="warning",
+    )
+    session = engine.open_session(8192, streaming=True)
+    params = {
+        "sampling_params": {
+            "max_new_tokens": 1,
+            "temperature": 0.0,
+            "ignore_eos": True,
+        },
+        "session_params": {"id": session, "rid": None},
+    }
+
+    emitted, function_prev = [], pad
+    try:
+        out = engine.generate(
+            input_ids=prompt_ids + [pad],
+            custom_inputs={
+                "is_initial_prefill": True,
+                "prompt_length": len(prompt_ids),
+                "acoustic_embedding": frames[0:1].tolist(),
+            },
+            **params,
+        )
+        emitted.append(out["output_ids"][0])
+        function_prev = out["meta_info"]["function_tokens"][-1]
+        for t in range(1, n_frames):
+            out = engine.generate(
+                input_ids=[],
+                custom_inputs={
+                    "acoustic_embedding": frames[t : t + 1].tolist(),
+                    "input_function_ids": [function_prev],
+                },
+                **params,
+            )
+            emitted.append(out["output_ids"][0])
+            function_prev = out["meta_info"]["function_tokens"][-1]
+    finally:
+        engine.close_session(session)
+        engine.shutdown()
+
+    if args.emit:
+        pathlib.Path(args.emit).write_text(json.dumps(emitted))
+        if args.reference_tokens is None:
+            print(f"wrote {len(emitted)} tokens to {args.emit}")
+            return 0
+
+    reference = json.loads(pathlib.Path(args.reference_tokens).read_text())
+    if len(emitted) != len(reference):
+        print(f"FAIL: emitted {len(emitted)} tokens, reference has {len(reference)}")
+        return 1
+
+    mismatched = [i for i, (a, b) in enumerate(zip(emitted, reference)) if a != b]
+    matched = len(reference) - len(mismatched)
+    print(
+        f"exact match: {matched}/{len(reference)} = "
+        f"{100.0 * matched / len(reference):.2f}%"
+    )
+    if mismatched:
+        i = mismatched[0]
+        lo, hi = max(0, i - 3), min(len(reference), i + 5)
+        print(f"first divergence at frame {i}")
+        print(f"  emitted   {emitted[lo:hi]}")
+        print(f"  reference {reference[lo:hi]}")
+        return 1
+    print("PASS")
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())