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A Variational Framework for Improving Naturalness in Generative Spoken Language Models
Li-Wei Chen, Takuya Higuchi, Zakaria Aldeneh +2
The success of large language models in text processing has inspired their adaptation to speech modeling. However, since speech is continuous and complex, it is often discretized f…
dMel: Speech Tokenization made Simple
Richard He Bai, Tatiana Likhomanenko, Ruixiang Zhang +3
Large language models have revolutionized natural language processing by leveraging self-supervised pretraining on vast textual data. Inspired by this success, researchers have inv…
Improving End-of-turn Detection in Spoken Dialogues by Detecting Speaker Intentions as a Secondary Task
Zakaria Aldeneh, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Emily Mower Provost
This work focuses on the use of acoustic cues for modeling turn-taking in dyadic spoken dialogues. Previous work has shown that speaker intentions (e.g., asking a question, utterin…