2026
THE ROLE OF PROSODIC AND LEXICAL CUES IN TURN-TAKING WITH SELF-SUPERVISED SPEECH REPRESENTATIONS
ICASSP 2026oral
Fluid turn-taking remains a key challenge in human-robot interaction. Self-supervised speech representations (S3Rs) have driven many advances, but it remains unclear whether S3R-based turn-taking models rely on prosodic cues, lexical cues or both. We introduce a vocoder-based approach to control pro…