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Building a Taiwanese Mandarin Spoken Language Model: A First Attempt

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arxiv 2411.07111 v2 pith:PRRR5JVU submitted 2024-11-11 cs.CL cs.SDeess.AS

Building a Taiwanese Mandarin Spoken Language Model: A First Attempt

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This technical report presents our initial attempt to build a spoken large language model (LLM) for Taiwanese Mandarin, specifically tailored to enable real-time, speech-to-speech interaction in multi-turn conversations. Our end-to-end model incorporates a decoder-only transformer architecture and aims to achieve seamless interaction while preserving the conversational flow, including full-duplex capabilities allowing simultaneous speaking and listening. The paper also details the training process, including data preparation with synthesized dialogues and adjustments for real-time interaction. We also developed a platform to evaluate conversational fluency and response coherence in multi-turn dialogues. We hope the release of the report can contribute to the future development of spoken LLMs in Taiwanese Mandarin.

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