Turn-taking and Backchannel Prediction with Acoustic and Large Language Model Fusion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14717v1
• Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:59:07 GMT
• Title: Turn-taking and Backchannel Prediction with Acoustic and Large Language Model Fusion
• Authors: Jinhan Wang, Long Chen, Aparna Khare, Anirudh Raju, Pranav Dheram, Di He, Minhua Wu, Andreas Stolcke, Venkatesh Ravichandran
• Abstract summary: 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.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: 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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