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We introduce the StatCan Dialogue Dataset consisting of 19,379 conversation turns between agents working at Statistics Canada and online users looking for published data tables. The conversations stem from genuine intents, are held in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xing Han Lu , Siva Reddy , Harm de Vries

Recent advances in audio-language models have demonstrated remarkable success on short, segment-level speech tasks. However, real-world applications such as meeting transcription, spoken document understanding, and conversational analysis…

We propose a novel preference alignment framework for improving spoken dialogue models on real-time conversations from user interactions. Current preference learning methods primarily focus on text-based language models, and are not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Anne Wu , Laurent Mazaré , Neil Zeghidour , Alexandre Défossez

High-quality data is essential for conversational recommendation systems and serves as the cornerstone of the network architecture development and training strategy design. Existing works contribute heavy human efforts to manually labeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Yu Lu , Junwei Bao , Zichen Ma , Xiaoguang Han , Youzheng Wu , Shuguang Cui , Xiaodong He

Building a natural language dataset requires caution since word semantics is vulnerable to subtle text change or the definition of the annotated concept. Such a tendency can be seen in generative tasks like question-answering and dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Won Ik Cho , Yoon Kyung Lee , Seoyeon Bae , Jihwan Kim , Sangah Park , Moosung Kim , Sowon Hahn , Nam Soo Kim

This paper presents SaSLaW, a spontaneous dialogue speech corpus containing synchronous recordings of what speakers speak, listen to, and watch. Humans consider the diverse environmental factors and then control the features of their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Osamu Take , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Kentaro Seki , Yoshiaki Bando , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Conversation is the natural mode for information exchange in daily life, a spoken conversational interaction for search input and output is a logical format for information seeking. However, the conceptualisation of user-system interactions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Johanne R. Trippas , Damiano Spina , Paul Thomas , Mark Sanderson , Hideo Joho , Lawrence Cavedon

Speech errors are a natural part of communication, yet they rarely lead to complete communicative failure because both speakers and comprehenders can detect and correct errors. Although prior research has examined error monitoring and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Shiva Upadhye , Jiaxuan Li , Richard Futrell

One challenge for dialogue agents is recognizing feelings in the conversation partner and replying accordingly, a key communicative skill. While it is straightforward for humans to recognize and acknowledge others' feelings in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Hannah Rashkin , Eric Michael Smith , Margaret Li , Y-Lan Boureau

As speech generation technology advances, the risk of misuse through deepfake audio has become a pressing concern, which underscores the critical need for robust detection systems. However, many existing speech deepfake datasets are limited…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Wen Huang , Yanmei Gu , Zhiming Wang , Huijia Zhu , Yanmin Qian

Affective computing aims to understand and model human emotions for computational systems. Within this field, speech emotion recognition (SER) focuses on predicting emotions conveyed through speech. While early SER systems relied on limited…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Luz Martinez-Lucas , Pravin Mote , Abinay Reddy Naini , Mohammed Abdelwahab , Carlos Busso

Contemporary conversational systems often present a significant limitation: their responses lack the emotional depth and disfluent characteristic of human interactions. This absence becomes particularly noticeable when users seek more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Rohan Chaudhury , Mihir Godbole , Aakash Garg , Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo

Building a dialogue system that can communicate naturally with humans is a challenging yet interesting problem of agent-based computing. The rapid growth in this area is usually hindered by the long-standing problem of data scarcity as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Munazza Zaib , Quan Z. Sheng , Wei Emma Zhang

Data scarcity has been a long standing issue in the field of open-domain social dialogue. To quench this thirst, we present SODA: the first publicly available, million-scale high-quality social dialogue dataset. By contextualizing social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Hyunwoo Kim , Jack Hessel , Liwei Jiang , Peter West , Ximing Lu , Youngjae Yu , Pei Zhou , Ronan Le Bras , Malihe Alikhani , Gunhee Kim , Maarten Sap , Yejin Choi

Automating child speech analysis is crucial for applications such as neurocognitive assessments. Speaker diarization, which identifies ``who spoke when'', is an essential component of the automated analysis. However, publicly available…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Anfeng Xu , Tiantian Feng , Helen Tager-Flusberg , Catherine Lord , Shrikanth Narayanan

Conversational Speech Synthesis (CSS) aims to express a target utterance with the proper speaking style in a user-agent conversation setting. Existing CSS methods employ effective multi-modal context modeling techniques to achieve empathy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Rui Liu , Yifan Hu , Yi Ren , Xiang Yin , Haizhou Li

Conversational agents are gaining popularity with the increasing ubiquity of smart devices. However, training agents in a data driven manner is challenging due to a lack of suitable corpora. This paper presents a novel method for gathering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Joachim Fainberg , Ben Krause , Mihai Dobre , Marco Damonte , Emmanuel Kahembwe , Daniel Duma , Bonnie Webber , Federico Fancellu

Data for human-human spoken dialogues for research and development are currently very limited in quantity, variety, and sources; such data are even scarcer in healthcare. In this work, we investigate fast prototyping of a dialogue…

Building dialogue systems that naturally converse with humans is being an attractive and an active research domain. Multiple systems are being designed everyday and several datasets are being available. For this reason, it is being hard to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Basma El Amel Boussaha , Nicolas Hernandez , Christine Jacquin , Emmanuel Morin

We introduce HarperValleyBank, a free, public domain spoken dialog corpus. The data simulate simple consumer banking interactions, containing about 23 hours of audio from 1,446 human-human conversations between 59 unique speakers. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Mike Wu , Jonathan Nafziger , Anthony Scodary , Andrew Maas