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EchoChat: Structured Cognitive Reasoning in Empathetic Spoken Dialogue
Dingdong Wang, Shujie Liu, Yayue Deng +6
Empathetic spoken dialogue is a sophisticated cognitive process that requires not only recognizing emotions but also inferring a user's latent mental states to provide appropriate…
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LLM can Read Spectrogram: Encoder-free Speech-Language Modeling
Ruchao Fan, Yiming Wang, Yuxuan Hu +6
Recent speech-aware large language models (Speech-LLMs) rely on pre-trained speech encoders to convert audio into semantic/acoustic rich representations consumable by LLM. In this…
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Preserving Speech-to-Text LLM Capabilities in Speech-to-Speech Generation
Yuxuan Hu, Heng Lu, Ruchao Fan +8
Strong speech-to-text (S2T) LLMs already provide robust speech perception and text reasoning, but adding speech-to-speech (S2S) output is challenging: fine-tuning the backbone can…