2 papers
cs.CL2026
Spoken Language Models that Think Aloud
Junyi Ao, Kainan Peng, Mingbo Ma +10
While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has improved the capability of language models, directly applying it to Spoken Language Models (SLMs) may introduce long silent intervals und…
cs.SD2026
What Did I Just Say? Self-Listening for Full-Duplex Speech Models
Xuanning Zhou, Junyi Ao, Xiaotong Liu +3
Full-duplex spoken language models can listen and speak simultaneously, enabling them to handle interruptions and backchannels in human conversation. However, text generation, spee…