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Audio Embedding-Aware Dialogue Policy Learning
(IEEE, 2022-11-30)
Following the success of Natural Language Processing (NLP) transformers pretrained via self-supervised learning, similar models have been proposed recently for speech processing such as Wav2Vec2, HuBERT and UniSpeech-SAT. ...
EMPATHIC: Empathic, Expressive, Advanced Virtual Coach to Improve Independent Healthy-Life-Years of the Elderly
(Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 2018-09)
The EMPATHIC project will research, innovate, explore and validatenew paradigms and platforms, laying the foundation for future generations of Per-sonalised Virtual Coaches to assist elderly people living independently ...
A multilingual neural coaching model with enhanced long-term dialogue structure
(ACM, 2022-07-12)
In this work we develop a fully data-driven conversational agent capable of carrying out motivational coach-
ing sessions in Spanish, French, Norwegian, and English. Unlike the majority of coaching, and in general
well-being ...
Analysis of Deep Learning-Based Decision-Making in an Emotional Spontaneous Speech Task
(MDPI, 2023-01-11)
In this work, we present an approach to understand the computational methods and decision-making involved in the identification of emotions in spontaneous speech. The selected task consists of Spanish TV debates, which ...
Dialogue Management and Language Generation for a Robust Conversational Virtual Coach: Validation and User Study
(MDPI, 2023-01-27)
Designing human–machine interactive systems requires cooperation between different disciplines is required. In this work, we present a Dialogue Manager and a Language Generator that are the core modules of a Voice-based ...