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Audio-visual turn-taking models struggle with noisy conversations

Researchers have evaluated audio-visual models for predicting conversational turn-taking in noisy environments, specifically a cocktail party setting. The study found that models trained on clean data experienced significant performance drops when exposed to overlapping speech and background interference. While fine-tuning improved robustness, the gains varied by modality and the amount of pre-training data, highlighting differences in how audio and visual cues adapt to complex human interactions. AI

IMPACT Highlights challenges in applying AI models to real-world noisy conversational data, indicating a need for more robust adaptation strategies.

RANK_REASON The item is a research paper published on arXiv detailing experiments with audio-visual models. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Audio-visual turn-taking models struggle with noisy conversations

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Long-Vu Hoang, Naomi Harte ·

    Audio-Visual Turn-taking Prediction in Cocktail Party Scenarios

    arXiv:2609.17056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current predictive turn-taking models (PTTMs) achieve strong performance on benchmarks with controlled acoustic conditions and clean audio signals. Their generalisation to conversations with overlapping speech and background inter…