arXiv Machine Learning By Rehana Mahfuz, Yinyi Guo, Erik Visser, Phanidhar Chinchili

Proactive Conversational Assistant for a Procedural Manual Task based on Audio and IMU

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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.

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