ParaBridge Ties Paralinguistic Cues to Dialogue Behavior in Speech Language Models
A new arXiv paper introduces ParaBridge, a method aimed at connecting the paralinguistic information in speech — such as vocal tone, speaker traits, or background noise — with the responses a spoken dialogue system produces. The authors note that while existing speech language models can detect such cues, they often fail to let that perception shape their replies, and the work targets closing that gap.