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Poster for ICASSP 2024 paper "Turn-taking and Backchannel Prediction with Acoustic and Large Language Model Fusion"
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- I-Fan Chen
- Last updated:
- 15 April 2024 - 8:45pm
- Document Type:
- Poster
- Document Year:
- 2024
- Paper Code:
- SLP-P9
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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.