Jing-Ran Xie

Thinking in Depth, Speaking Directly: Recurrent Latent Reasoning for Paralinguistically Grounded Spoken Dialogue

Empathetic spoken dialogue requires models to use both what is said and how it is said to decide how to respond. Explicit CoT can improve paralinguistic perception and make acoustic cues more explicit in replies, yet does not ensure their effective use in response planning. We call this mismatch the perception-reasonin...