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New Voice Agent Improves Turn-Taking in Multi-Party Conversations

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Researchers have developed ModeratorLM, a novel voice agent designed to improve turn-taking in real-time, multi-party conversations. This system leverages a speech large language model and assigns specific roles to agents to manage conversational flow, especially in dynamic environments with competing speakers. A reasoning-augmented variant incorporates chain-of-thought processing for enhanced contextual understanding. Experiments demonstrate significant improvements in turn-taking precision and recall, while reducing interruptions. AI

IMPACT Enhances the ability of AI agents to participate naturally in group conversations, potentially improving user experience in collaborative AI applications.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a new model and dataset for improving voice agent turn-taking.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Soumyajit Mitra, Prabhat Pandey, Abhinav Jain, Shanmukha Sahith, K V Vijay Girish ·

    Adaptive Turn-Taking for Real-time Multi-Party Voice Agents

    arXiv:2606.13544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Turn-taking in multi-party spoken conversations remains a fundamental challenge for voice-based agents, particularly under dynamic floor competition and varying user expectations. We propose ModeratorLM, a role-playing voice agent…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · K V Vijay Girish ·

    Adaptive Turn-Taking for Real-time Multi-Party Voice Agents

    Turn-taking in multi-party spoken conversations remains a fundamental challenge for voice-based agents, particularly under dynamic floor competition and varying user expectations. We propose ModeratorLM, a role-playing voice agent that conditions turn-taking behavior on an explic…

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