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Exploiting Speech LLM Representations for Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Parkinson's Disease Detection
Sarthak Giri, Zi Haur Pang, Tatsuya Kawahara
Speech Large Language Models (Speech LLMs) have shown strong performance across diverse tasks, yet their utility for pathological speech analysis remains underexplored. In this wor…
CultureConverse: A Multilingual Multi-turn Simulation Harness for Culturally Grounded Assistance in East and Southeast Asia
Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Weihua Zheng, Thong T. Doan +30
Current cultural evaluations for large language models (LLMs) often reduce culture to single-turn factual recall via MCQs, failing to capture a common use case: users seeking pract…
Closing the Affective Loop: Multimodal Speaker-Listener Emotion-Dynamics-Aware Empathetic Social Robots
Zi Haur Pang, Casey Kennington, Tatsuya Kawahara
Empathetic social robots should respond not only to what users say, but also to how their emotions dynamically evolve during interaction. However, existing empathetic dialogue syst…
Paralinguistic Emotion-Aware Validation Timing Detection in Japanese Empathetic Spoken Dialogue
Zi Haur Pang, Yahui Fu, Yuan Gao +1
Emotional Validation is a psychotherapy communication technique that involves recognizing, understanding, and explicitly acknowledging another person's feelings and actions, which…