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New AV-STE system enhances dialogue models with audio-visual speech token restoration

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Researchers have developed AV-STE, a novel modular front-end system designed to enhance audio-visual speech token processing for spoken dialogue models. This system aims to improve the robustness of full-duplex dialogue systems by restoring corrupted speech tokens from noisy audio and lip video before they are processed by the main language model. By keeping the downstream dialogue model frozen, AV-STE preserves its existing conversational abilities while significantly boosting response coherence, particularly in noisy environments with overlapping speech. AI

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New AV-STE system enhances dialogue models with audio-visual speech token restoration

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Bella Godiva, Yeonju Kim, Yong Man Ro ·

    Noise Adaptive Streaming Audio-Visual Speech Token Enhancement for Robust Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Models

    arXiv:2609.08390v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Full-duplex spoken dialogue systems enable simultaneous listening and speaking, but their audio-only perception often fails under background noise and overlapping speech, leading to incoherent responses. Recent audio-visual dialog…

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