Zhixian Zhao

THE ICASSP 2026 HUMDIAL CHALLENGE: BENCHMARKING HUMAN-LIKE SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS IN THE LLM ERA

Driven by the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly Audio-LLMs and Omni-models, spoken dialogue systems have evolved significantly, progressively narrowing the gap between human-machine and human-human interactions. Achieving truly ``human-like'' communication necessitates…