Speech-to-speech models know when to speak but can't reason. Cascaded LLM pipelines can reason but only react to silence. DualTurn pretrains on dual-channel human conversation to bring S2S-level turn-taking into a standard ASR-LLM-TTS stack.
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DualTurn: Learning Turn-Taking from Dual-Channel Generative Speech Pretraining
DualTurn: Learning Turn-Taking from Dual-Channel Generative Speech Pretraining
Dual-channel generative pretraining for learning natural turn-taking in spoken dialogue without labeled data. A 0.5B model that outperforms models 6x its size on turn prediction.
SpeechLLM: Multi-Modal LLM for Speech Understanding
A small multimodal LLM that reads paralinguistic signal — emotion, prosody, speaker traits — directly from speech audio instead of through an ASR transcript, built alongside the release of SpeechLLM at Skit.ai.
Speech LLMs for Conversations
A multimodal speech LLM that processes audio directly to enhance conversational AI while reducing overhead compared to traditional ASR-LLM-TTS pipelines.