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Poster for ICASSP 2024 paper "Turn-taking and Backchannel Prediction with Acoustic and Large Language Model Fusion"

Citation Author(s):
Submitted by:
I-Fan Chen
Last updated:
15 April 2024 - 8:45pm
Document Type:
Poster
Document Year:
2024
Paper Code:
SLP-P9
 

We propose an approach for continuous prediction of turn-taking and backchanneling locations in spoken dialogue by fusing a neural acoustic model with a large language model (LLM). Experiments on the Switchboard human-human conversation dataset demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms the baseline models with single modality. We also develop a novel multi-task instruction fine-tuning strategy to further benefit from LLM-encoded knowledge for understanding the tasks and conversational contexts, leading to additional improvements. Our approach demonstrates the potential of combined LLMs and acoustic models for a more natural and conversational interaction between humans and speech-enabled AI agents.

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