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PersonaTAB: Predicting Personality Traits using Textual, Acoustic, and Behavioral Cues in Fully-Duplex Speech Dialogs

Sound 2025-05-21 v1 Computation and Language Audio and Speech Processing

Abstract

Despite significant progress in neural spoken dialog systems, personality-aware conversation agents -- capable of adapting behavior based on personalities -- remain underexplored due to the absence of personality annotations in speech datasets. We propose a pipeline that preprocesses raw audio recordings to create a dialogue dataset annotated with timestamps, response types, and emotion/sentiment labels. We employ an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system to extract transcripts and timestamps, then generate conversation-level annotations. Leveraging these annotations, we design a system that employs large language models to predict conversational personality. Human evaluators were engaged to identify conversational characteristics and assign personality labels. Our analysis demonstrates that the proposed system achieves stronger alignment with human judgments compared to existing approaches.

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@article{arxiv.2505.14356,
  title  = {PersonaTAB: Predicting Personality Traits using Textual, Acoustic, and Behavioral Cues in Fully-Duplex Speech Dialogs},
  author = {Sho Inoue and Shai Wang and Haizhou Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.14356},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

This is accepted to Interspeech 2025; Added an extra page for supplementary figures; Project page: https://github.com/shinshoji01/Personality-Prediction-for-Conversation-Agents