FreezeEmpath achieves emotionally expressive speech output and strong performance on empathetic dialogue, speech emotion recognition, and spoken QA tasks by training with a frozen LLM on existing speech datasets.
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FreezeEmpath: Efficient Training for Empathetic Spoken Chatbots with Frozen LLMs
FreezeEmpath achieves emotionally expressive speech output and strong performance on empathetic dialogue, speech emotion recognition, and spoken QA tasks by training with a frozen LLM on existing speech datasets.