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The area of software development and secure coding can benefit significantly from advancements in virtual assistants. Research has shown that many coders neglect security in favor of meeting deadlines. This shortcoming leaves systems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Fitzroy D. Nembhard , Marco M. Carvalho

The creation of artificial polyglot voices remains a challenging task, despite considerable progress in recent years. This paper investigates self-supervised learning for voice conversion to create native-sounding polyglot voices. We…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Giuseppe Ruggiero , Matteo Testa , Jurgen Van de Walle , Luigi Di Caro

Conversational User Interfaces such as Voice Assistants are hugely popular. Yet they are designed to be monolingual by default, lacking support for, or sensitivity to, the bilingual dialogue experience. In this provocation paper, we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Helin Cihan , Yunhan Wu , Paola Peña , Justin Edwards , Benjamin Cowan

Supporting voice commands in applications presents significant benefits to users. However, adding such support to existing GUI-based web apps is effort-consuming with a high learning barrier, as shown in our formative study, due to the lack…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Ritam Jyoti Sarmah , Yunpeng Ding , Di Wang , Cheuk Yin Phipson Lee , Toby Jia-Jun Li , Xiang 'Anthony' Chen

IDE-integrated AI coding assistants, which operate conversationally within developers' working codebases with access to project context and multi-file editing, are rapidly reshaping software development. However, empirical investigation of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Ningzhi Tang , Chaoran Chen , Zihan Fang , Gelei Xu , Maria Dhakal , Yiyu Shi , Collin McMillan , Yu Huang , Toby Jia-Jun Li

Robotic assistants reduce the manual efforts being put in by humans in their day-to-day tasks. In this paper, we develop a voice-controlled personal assistant robot. The robot takes the human voice commands by its own built-in microphone.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Vineeth Teeda , K Sujatha , Rakesh Mutukuru

Intelligent personal assistants (IPA) enable voice applications that facilitate people's daily tasks. However, due to the complexity and ambiguity of voice requests, some requests may not be handled properly by the standard natural language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Wei Xiao , Qian Hu , Thahir Mohamed , Zheng Gao , Xibin Gao , Radhika Arava , Mohamed AbdelHady

The landscape of AI coding assistance is undergoing a fundamental shift from complex IDE plugins to versatile, terminal-native agents. Operating directly where developers manage source control, execute builds, and deploy environments,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Nghi D. Q. Bui

We present the second version of the Open Assistant Toolkit (OAT-v2), an open-source task-oriented conversational system for composing generative neural models. OAT-v2 is a scalable and flexible assistant platform supporting multiple…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Sophie Fischer , Federico Rossetto , Carlos Gemmell , Andrew Ramsay , Iain Mackie , Philip Zubel , Niklas Tecklenburg , Jeffrey Dalton

GitHub Copilot is an artificial intelligence model for automatically generating source code from natural language problem descriptions. Since June 2022, Copilot has officially been available for free to all students as a plug-in to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Paul Denny , Viraj Kumar , Nasser Giacaman

Custom voice is to construct a personal speech synthesis system by adapting the source speech synthesis model to the target model through the target few recordings. The solution to constructing a custom voice is to combine an adaptive…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Xin Yuan , Yongbing Feng , Mingming Ye , Cheng Tuo , Minghang Zhang

Due to the growing complexity of modern Integrated Circuits (ICs), automating hardware design can prevent a significant amount of human error from the engineering process and result in less errors. Verilog is a popular hardware description…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Chia-Tung Ho , Haoxing Ren , Brucek Khailany

Open-source Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools are rapidly transforming chip design by addressing key barriers of commercial EDA tools such as complexity, costs, and access. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Aviral Kaintura , Palaniappan R , Shui Song Luar , Indira Iyer Almeida

This paper describes the ongoing development of a conversational interaction concept that allows visually impaired users to easily create and edit text documents on mobile devices using mainly voice input. In order to verify the concept, a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Alireza Darvishy , Hans-Peter Hutter , Edin Beljulji , Zeno Heeb

The research applies AI-driven code assistants to analyze a selection of influential computer code that has shaped modern technology, including email, internet browsing, robotics, and malicious software. The original contribution of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 David Noever , Kevin Williams

Autonomous systems in remote locations have a high degree of autonomy and there is a need to explain what they are doing and why in order to increase transparency and maintain trust. Here, we describe a natural language chat interface that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia , David A. Robb , Xingkun Liu , Atanas Laskov , Pedro Patron , Helen Hastie

SpeechBrain is an open-source Conversational AI toolkit based on PyTorch, focused particularly on speech processing tasks such as speech recognition, speech enhancement, speaker recognition, text-to-speech, and much more. It promotes…

Understanding code is challenging, especially when working in new and complex development environments. Code comments and documentation can help, but are typically scarce or hard to navigate. Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Daye Nam , Andrew Macvean , Vincent Hellendoorn , Bogdan Vasilescu , Brad Myers

The labelling of speech corpora is a laborious and time-consuming process. The ProsoBeast Annotation Tool seeks to ease and accelerate this process by providing an interactive 2D representation of the prosodic landscape of the data, in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Branislav Gerazov , Michael Wagner

Chatbots have long been explored as tools to support learning, and recent advances in large language models have significantly expanded the availability of platforms for educators to author AI tutoring chatbots. Yet effective authorship…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Miina Koyama , Ruiwei Xiao , John Stamper