4 papers
Pronouncing Hard Words: Phoneme Adaptation of a Pretrained Conversational Text to Speech Model
Yashish M. Siriwardena, Dinesh K. Gnanasekaran, Tanmay Laud +3
Voice agents built as cascaded automatic speech recognition (ASR)->large language model (LLM)-> text-to-speech (TTS) pipelines increasingly rely on conversational TTS: streaming, c…
HARP: Agentic Hybrid Retrieval and Analysis for Long-Form Audio
Chin-Jou Li, Masao Someki, Woojeong Jin +4
Long-form audio analysis requires systems to localize and integrate evidence distributed across extended recordings. While existing work primarily retrieves semantic content throug…
Perfecting Human-AI Interaction at Clinical Scale. Turning Production Signals into Safer, More Human Conversations
Subhabrata Mukherjee, Markel Sanz Ausin, Kriti Aggarwal +24
Healthcare conversational AI agents shouldn't be optimized only for clean benchmark accuracy in production-first regime; they must be optimized for the lived reality of patient con…
Large-Scale Analysis of Online Questions Related to Opioid Use Disorder on Reddit
Tanmay Laud, Akadia Kacha-Ochana, Steven A. Sumner +5
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a leading health problem that affects individual well-being as well as general public health. Due to a variety of reasons, including the stigma faced b…