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Proactive Hearing Assistants that Isolate Egocentric Conversations
Guilin Hu, Malek Itani, Tuochao Chen +1
We introduce proactive hearing assistants that automatically identify and separate the wearer's conversation partners, without requiring explicit prompts. Our system operates on eg…
AV-Dialog: Spoken Dialogue Models with Audio-Visual Input
Tuochao Chen, Bandhav Veluri, Hongyu Gong +1
Dialogue models falter in noisy, multi-speaker environments, often producing irrelevant responses and awkward turn-taking. We present AV-Dialog, the first multimodal dialog framewo…
Spatial Speech Translation: Translating Across Space With Binaural Hearables
Tuochao Chen, Qirui Wang, Runlin He +1
Imagine being in a crowded space where people speak a different language and having hearables that transform the auditory space into your native language, while preserving the spat…
Beyond Turn-Based Interfaces: Synchronous LLMs as Full-Duplex Dialogue Agents
Bandhav Veluri, Benjamin N Peloquin, Bokai Yu +2
Despite broad interest in modeling spoken dialogue agents, most approaches are inherently "half-duplex" -- restricted to turn-based interaction with responses requiring explicit pr…
Target conversation extraction: Source separation using turn-taking dynamics
Tuochao Chen, Qirui Wang, Bohan Wu +4
Extracting the speech of participants in a conversation amidst interfering speakers and noise presents a challenging problem. In this paper, we introduce the novel task of target c…