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We introduce a low-latency telecom AI voice agent pipeline for real-time, interactive telecommunications use, enabling advanced voice AI for call center automation, intelligent IVR (Interactive Voice Response), and AI-driven customer…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Vignesh Ethiraj , Ashwath David , Sidhanth Menon , Divya Vijay

This paper describes noisy speech recognition for an augmented reality headset that helps verbal communication within real multiparty conversational environments. A major approach that has actively been studied in simulated environments is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-18 Yicheng Du , Aditya Arie Nugraha , Kouhei Sekiguchi , Yoshiaki Bando , Mathieu Fontaine , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has garnered increasing attention due to its wide range of applications in various fields, including human-machine interaction, virtual assistants, and mental health assistance. However, existing SER methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Dongyuan Li , Ying Zhang , Yusong Wang , Funakoshi Kataro , Manabu Okumura

With the emergence of diverse and massive data in the upcoming sixth-generation (6G) networks, the task-agnostic semantic communication system is regarded to provide robust intelligent services. In this paper, we propose a task-agnostic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shiyao Jiang , Jian Jiao , Xingjian Zhang , Ye Wang , Dusit Niyato , Qinyu Zhang

The rapid advancement in large foundation models is propelling the paradigm shifts across various industries. One significant change is that agents, instead of traditional machines or humans, will be the primary participants in the future…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Zhuoran Xiao , Chenhui Ye , Yijia Feng , Yunbo Hu , Tianyu Jiao , Liyu Cai , Guangyi Liu

Wireless communication has achieved great success in the past several decades. The challenge is of improving bandwidth with limited spectrum and power consumption, which however has gradually become a bottleneck with evolution going on. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Guangming Shi , Dahua Gao , Xiaodan Song , Jingxuan Chai , Minxi Yang , Xuemei Xie , Leida Li , Xuyang Li

Metaverse is considered to be the evolution of the next-generation networks, providing users with experience sharing at the intersection between physical and digital. Augmented reality (AR) is one of the primary supporting technologies in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Jie Feng , Jun Zhao

Underwater wireless communications face significant challenges due to propagation constraints, limiting the effectiveness of traditional radio and optical technologies. Long-range acoustic communications support distances up to a few…

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Aligning acoustic and linguistic representations is a central challenge to bridge the pre-trained models in knowledge transfer for automatic speech recognition (ASR). This alignment is inherently structured and asymmetric: while multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Xugang Lu , Peng Shen , Hisashi Kawai

Semantic communication marks a new paradigm shift from bit-wise data transmission to semantic information delivery for the purpose of bandwidth reduction. To more effectively carry out specialized downstream tasks at the receiver end, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Yu-Chieh Chao , Yubei Chen , Weiwei Wang , Achintha Wijesinghe , Suchinthaka Wanninayaka , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images plays an important role in a wide range of applications including land resource management, biosphere monitoring and urban planning. Although the accuracy of semantic segmentation in remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Rui Li , Shunyi Zheng , Chenxi Duan , Ce Zhang , Jianlin Su , P. M. Atkinson

Semantic communication aims to convey meaning for effective task execution, but differing latent representations in AI-native devices can cause semantic mismatches that hinder mutual understanding. This paper introduces a novel approach to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Giuseppe Di Poce , Mario Edoardo Pandolfo , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has drawn increasing attention for its applications in human-machine interaction. However, existing SER methods ignore the information gap between the pre-training speech recognition task and the downstream…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Dongyuan Li , Yusong Wang , Kotaro Funakoshi , Manabu Okumura

Semantic communication systems aim to transmit task-relevant information between devices capable of artificial intelligence, but their performance can degrade when heterogeneous transmitter-receiver models produce misaligned latent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Mario Edoardo Pandolfo , Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , George C. Alexandropoulos , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Semantic communications have been utilized to execute numerous intelligent tasks by transmitting task-related semantic information instead of bits. In this article, we propose a semantic-aware speech-to-text transmission system for the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Huiqiang Xie , Xiaoming Tao , Khaled B. Letaief

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling goal-oriented networking. However, most existing semantic communication solutions are tailored to one-shot tasks and optimize instantaneous performance. Hence, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Lingyi Wang , Tingyu Shui , Walid Saad , Pascal Adjakple

Intelligent voice assistants, such as Apple Siri and Amazon Alexa, are widely used nowadays. These task-oriented dialogue systems require a semantic parsing module in order to process user utterances and understand the action to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Daniel Fernández-González

The success of scene graphs for visual scene understanding has brought attention to the benefits of abstracting a visual input (e.g., image) into a structured representation, where entities (people and objects) are nodes connected by edges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Mohamed Ashraf Abdelsalam , Zhan Shi , Federico Fancellu , Kalliopi Basioti , Dhaivat J. Bhatt , Vladimir Pavlovic , Afsaneh Fazly

In text-audio retrieval (TAR) tasks, due to the heterogeneity of contents between text and audio, the semantic information contained in the text is only similar to certain frames within the audio. Yet, existing works aggregate the entire…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Yifei Xin , Dongchao Yang , Yuexian Zou