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most citedThe ICASSP 2026 HumDial Challenge: Benchmarking Human-like Spoken Dialogue Systems in the LLM Era

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eess.AS2026

The SLT 2026 SmartGlasses Challenge: Benchmarking Egocentric Multi-Talker Speech Recognition and Understanding with Audio-Language Models

Dehui Gao, Zhixian Zhao, Zhennan Lin +14

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) have created new opportunities for wearable speech interfaces, with smart glasses providing an egocentri…

eess.AS2026

Beyond Semantic Dominance: Cognitive Affective Reasoning and Empathetic Response Alignment in Audio Language Models

Zhixian Zhao, Shuiyuan Wang, Wenjie Tian +3

While Audio Language Models (ALMs) demonstrate strong semantic understanding, they struggle with complex affective interactions. Specifically, textual semantic dominance often over…

eess.AS2026

Full-Duplex Interaction in Spoken Dialogue Systems: A Comprehensive Study from the ICASSP 2026 HumDial Challenge

Chengyou Wang, Hongfei Xue, Guojian Li +6

Full-duplex interaction, where speakers and listeners converse simultaneously, is a key element of human communication often missing from traditional spoken dialogue systems. These…

eess.AS2026

HumDial-EIBench: A Human-Recorded Multi-Turn Emotional Intelligence Benchmark for Audio Language Models

Shuiyuan Wang, Zhixian Zhao, Hongfei Xue +5

Evaluating the emotional intelligence (EI) of audio language models (ALMs) is critical. However, existing benchmarks mostly rely on synthesized speech, are limited to single-turn i…

cs.SD2026

Seeing the Context: Rich Visual Context-Aware Speech Recognition via Multimodal Reasoning

Wenjie Tian, Mingchen Shao, Bingshen Mu +8

Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) is an extension of ASR that incorporates visual signals. Current AVSR approaches primarily focus on lip motion, largely overlooking rich cont…

cs.SD2026

EmoOmni: Bridging Emotional Understanding and Expression in Omni-Modal LLMs

Wenjie Tian, Zhixian Zhao, Jingbin Hu +4

The evolution of Omni-Modal Large Language Models~(Omni-LLMs) has revolutionized human--computer interaction, enabling unified audio-visual perception and speech response. However,…