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arXiv:2610.10145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present InterView-C, a German multimodal corpus of 27 survey interviews conducted entirely in virtual reality, with both interlocutors represented b...
The paper introduces ReACT‑TTS, a two‑stage framework that uses a one‑second sequence of listener facial reactions to plan the emotion and prosody of a conversational utterance before speech synthesis. Experiments on the MELD dataset show that temporally conditioned models outperform text‑only baselines in macro‑F1 and VAD concordance, while accuracy remains unchanged. A contextual‑appropriateness study with speech researchers indicates a strong preference for temporally conditioned responses, and the approach is integrated with a Grad‑TTS backbone for end‑to‑end speech generation.
arXiv:2609.14666v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Turn-taking is a fundamental component of spoken interaction, and while humans naturally rely on both verbal and non-verbal signals, dialogue systems...
arXiv:2608.22731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Nonverbal behavior generation systems for virtual agents often take an utterance as input and generate nonverbal behaviors that emphasize or illustrate...
The paper introduces Omni Demand Understanding (ODU), a benchmark designed to test whether multimodal models can infer a user's underlying demand from complex audio‑visual interactions. ODU requires models to detect the presence of a demand and infer intent using multimodal and conversational context, evaluated across single‑turn and multi‑turn scenarios. The authors built ODU‑Bench through a taxonomy‑guided approach, agentic video generation, and human‑recorded interactions, and found that even top models like Gemini 3.1 Pro recover only 44.7% of key information, with many models exhibiting high false‑trigger rates.
arXiv:2608.20905v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Face-to-face audiovisual interaction is central to human communication, conveying rich emotional and social cues. However, existing multimodal dialogue...