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Voice Activity Projection: Self-supervised Learning of Turn-taking Events

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arxiv 2205.09812 v1 pith:FAU6UTFN submitted 2022-05-19 eess.AS cs.SD

Voice Activity Projection: Self-supervised Learning of Turn-taking Events

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The modeling of turn-taking in dialog can be viewed as the modeling of the dynamics of voice activity of the interlocutors. We extend prior work and define the predictive task of Voice Activity Projection, a general, self-supervised objective, as a way to train turn-taking models without the need of labeled data. We highlight a theoretical weakness with prior approaches, arguing for the need of modeling the dependency of voice activity events in the projection window. We propose four zero-shot tasks, related to the prediction of upcoming turn-shifts and backchannels, and show that the proposed model outperforms prior work.

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