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cs.CL2026
Thinking in Depth, Speaking Directly: Recurrent Latent Reasoning for Paralinguistically Grounded Spoken Dialogue
Shengbo Cai, Yuxiang Wang, Jingran Xie +5
Empathetic spoken dialogue requires models to use both what is said and how it is said to decide how to respond. Explicit CoT can improve paralinguistic perception and make acousti…
cs.CL2026
ParaBridge: Bridging Paralinguistic Perception and Dialogue Behavior in Speech Language Models
Yuxiang Wang, Qinke Ni, Shengbo Cai +3
Speech carries more information than just words: a child's voice, a fearful tone, or a noisy background should all lead a sufficiently competent spoken-dialogue assistant to differ…