The paper presents a new wake‑up system for voice assistants that goes beyond simple keyword spotting by adding contextual trigger detection. After the wake word is heard, the system reasons to differentiate between actual user commands and unrelated speech, enabling more efficient and context‑aware interactions. A data‑generation architecture is introduced that creates a 62.3‑hour corpus of controllable multi‑speaker conversations, including direct invocations, contextual follow‑ups, and non‑addressed speech, and experimental results confirm the approach’s effectiveness across varied synthetic scenarios.
By Marcin Sowa\'nski, Kacper Leszczy\'nski, Kacper Krzywicki, Krzysztof Wodnicki
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have empowered home assistants with natural language interaction capabilities. However, current assistants overlook the progressive omission that occurs in human dialogue as shared context accumulates, leading to more elliptical expressions for efficient communication.
arXiv:2606. 18636v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have empowered home assistants with natural language interaction capabilities.
By Yingyu Shan, Zeming Liu, Silin Li, Boao Qian, Jiashu Yao, Yuhang Guo, Haifeng Wang
Conversation Coach is a voice‑first AI system that lets managers rehearse difficult workplace conversations in a realistic spoken format. It tackles low‑latency interaction, adaptive bot personalities that simulate various employee types, and personalized feedback on content and policy compliance. The authors compare an end‑to‑end speech‑to‑speech model with a cascaded approach, finding the former offers lower latency and cost, while the cascaded model provides better reasoning for coaching quality, and they deployed the cascaded architecture to 40,000+ managers over six months.
By Fanyou Wu, Suraj Maharjan, Ainur Yessenalina, Dennis Xu Chen, Rahul Srivastava, Srinivasan H. Sengamedu
arXiv:2602. 15707v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-time conversational assistants for procedural manual tasks often depend on video input, which can be computationally expensive and compromise user privacy.
By Rehana Mahfuz, Yinyi Guo, Erik Visser, Phanidhar Chinchili
The paper introduces an LLM-based Conversational AI Knowledge Assistant for the Raspberry‑Pi‑powered 13‑Axis MyBuddy humanoid robot. It combines large language model-driven language understanding, real‑time speech recognition, internet‑based knowledge retrieval (e.g., Wikipedia, arXiv), flexible dialogue management, and natural speech synthesis to support intelligent, multi‑turn conversations and emotional‑support interactions. This system aims to overcome the limitations of traditional rule‑based dialogue systems in humanoid robots.
By Hanxiao Chen
arXiv:2608. 15549v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Programming small social robots from natural-language instructions requires more than invoking isolated APIs.
By Xiao Wang, Lu Dong, Ifeoma Nwogu, Srirangaraj Setlur, Venu Govindaraju
arXiv:2505.08894v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Large language model (LLM) chatbots are increasingly reaching users through messaging platforms (e.g. WhatsApp). However, these systems remai...
By Hiba Eltigani, Rukhshan Haroon, Asli Kocak, Abdullah Bin Faisal, Noah Martin, Fahad Dogar
arXiv:2606. 01230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents are moving beyond text-only interaction toward physical-world control, with smart homes as a representative domain.
By Yi Gu, Huacan Wang, Shuo Zhang, Yuqing Hou, Lei Xue, Weipeng Ming, Chen Liu, Fangzhou Yu, Kuan Li, Ronghao Chen, Sen Hu, Xiaofeng Mou, Yi Xu
We’re launching a pilot subscription plan for ChatGPT, a conversational AI that can chat with you, answer follow-up questions, and challenge incorrect assumptions.
arXiv:2608. 06110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents ECHO (Enhanced Care \& Health Observer), a locally-deployable conversational health assistant for long-term chronic care management.
By Abdulkadir K\"ul\c{c}e, Alihan Esen, Ca\u{g}la Fikir, Berke Kurt, Kuzey Arar, G\"okhan Ercan, Faik Boray Tek