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This technical report describes the methods and results of a three-week sprint to produce deployable speech recognition models for 31 under-served languages of the Common Voice project. We outline the preprocessing steps, hyperparameter…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Francis M. Tyers , Josh Meyer

AI Tool is a large language model (LLM) designed to generate human-like responses in natural language conversations. It is trained on a massive corpus of text from the internet, which allows it to leverage a broad understanding of language,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Hitesh Mohapatra , Soumya Ranjan Mishra

CleanS2S is a framework for human-like speech-to-speech interaction that advances conversational AI through single-file implementation and proactive dialogue capabilities. Our system integrates automatic speech recognition, large language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yudong Lu , Yazhe Niu , Shuai Hu , Haolin Wang

The present paper surveys neural approaches to conversational AI that have been developed in the last few years. We group conversational systems into three categories: (1) question answering agents, (2) task-oriented dialogue agents, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Jianfeng Gao , Michel Galley , Lihong Li

The capacity for highly complex, evidence-based, and strategically adaptive persuasion remains a formidable great challenge for artificial intelligence. Previous work, like IBM Project Debater, focused on generating persuasive speeches in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Allen Roush , Devin Gonier , John Hines , Judah Goldfeder , Philippe Martin Wyder , Sanjay Basu , Ravid Shwartz Ziv

Although speech recognition algorithms have developed quickly in recent years, achieving high transcription accuracy across diverse audio formats and acoustic environments remains a major challenge. This work explores how incorporating…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Aniket Abhishek Soni

This paper presents an overview of a program designed to address the growing need for developing freely available speech resources for under-represented languages. At present we have released 38 datasets for building text-to-speech and…

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have created new possibilities for making education more scalable, adaptive, and learner-centered. However, existing educational chatbot systems often lack contextual adaptability, real-time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Mohamed El Hajji , Tarek Ait Baha , Aicha Dakir , Hammou Fadili , Youssef Es-Saady

We introduce machine unlearning for speech tasks, a novel and underexplored research problem that aims to efficiently and effectively remove the influence of specific data from trained speech models without full retraining. This has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiali Cheng , Hadi Amiri

Real-time, intelligent, and natural speech interaction is an essential part of the next-generation human-computer interaction. Recent advancements have showcased the potential of building intelligent spoken chatbots based on large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Qingkai Fang , Yan Zhou , Shoutao Guo , Shaolei Zhang , Yang Feng

This paper presents Idiolect, an open source (https://github.com/OpenASR/idiolect) IDE plugin for voice coding and a novel approach to building bots that allows for users to define custom commands on-the-fly. Unlike traditional chatbots,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Breandan Considine , Nicholas Albion , Xujie Si

This software project based paper is for a vision of the near future in which computer interaction is characterized by natural face-to-face conversations with lifelike characters that speak, emote, and gesture. The first step is speech. The…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2013-05-10 Urmila Shrawankar , Anjali Mahajan

The prevailing paradigm in the domain of Open-Domain Dialogue agents predominantly focuses on the English language, encompassing both models and datasets. Furthermore, the financial and temporal investments required for crowdsourcing such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Ahmed Njifenjou , Virgile Sucal , Bassam Jabaian , Fabrice Lefèvre

Healthcare systems around the world are grappling with issues like inefficient diagnostics, rising costs, and limited access to specialists. These problems often lead to delays in treatment and poor health outcomes. Most current AI and deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Maliha Tabassum , M Shamim Kaiser

We introduce MentalChat16K, an English benchmark dataset combining a synthetic mental health counseling dataset and a dataset of anonymized transcripts from interventions between Behavioral Health Coaches and Caregivers of patients in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jia Xu , Tianyi Wei , Bojian Hou , Patryk Orzechowski , Shu Yang , Ruochen Jin , Rachael Paulbeck , Joost Wagenaar , George Demiris , Li Shen

aTrain is an open-source and offline tool for transcribing audio data in multiple languages with CPU and NVIDIA GPU support. It is specifically designed for researchers using qualitative data generated from various forms of speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Armin Haberl , Jürgen Fleiß , Dominik Kowald , Stefan Thalmann

In this paper, we provide a large audio-visual speaker recognition dataset, VoxBlink2, which includes approximately 10M utterances with videos from 110K+ speakers in the wild. This dataset represents a significant expansion over the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Yuke Lin , Ming Cheng , Fulin Zhang , Yingying Gao , Shilei Zhang , Ming Li

In this report, we present ChuXin, an entirely open-source language model with a size of 1.6 billion parameters. Unlike the majority of works that only open-sourced the model weights and architecture, we have made everything needed to train…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Xiaomin Zhuang , Yufan Jiang , Qiaozhi He , Zhihua Wu

We present a framework for building interactive, real-time, natural language-instructable robots in the real world, and we open source related assets (dataset, environment, benchmark, and policies). Trained with behavioral cloning on a…

Current conversational AI systems often provide generic, one-size-fits-all interactions that overlook individual user characteristics and lack adaptive dialogue management. To address this gap, we introduce \textbf{HumAIne-chatbot}, an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Georgios Makridis , George Fragiadakis , Jorge Oliveira , Tomaz Saraiva , Philip Mavrepis , Georgios Fatouros , Dimosthenis Kyriazis