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Helen M. Meng

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Preprint Oct 2026

EchoChat: Structured Cognitive Reasoning in Empathetic Spoken Dialogue

Empathetic spoken dialogue is a sophisticated cognitive process that requires not only recognizing emotions but also inferring a user's latent mental states to provide appropriate support. However, current SpeechLLMs often treat empathy as a direct input-to-response mapping, leading to"superficially warm"but emotionall...

Ding-Dong Wang, Shu-Jie Liu, Ya-Yue Deng et al. · 0 citations

#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

DuraS2ST: Chain-of-Thought and Reinforcement Learning for Duration-Aligned Speech-to-Speech Translation

Speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) in time-sensitive applications such as video dubbing requires not only semantic fidelity and speaker preservation, but also strict duration consistency to avoid audio-visual misalignment. However, existing S2ST systems largely generate target speech without explicit temporal planning...

Ya-Yue Deng, Ding-Dong Wang, Yuxuan Hu et al. · 0 citations

#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

PARSER: Read in Parallel, Reason in Depth for Long-Context LLM Agents

PARSER, which decouples reading from reasoning, is introduced, which is robust to perturbations in evidence position, order, and distance, conditions that cause large accuracy swings in sequential methods, while reducing inference latency by up to 11x.

Kun Li, Ze-Xuan Qiu, Tian-Hua Zhang et al. · 0 citations