AI RESEARCH
FreezeEmpath: Efficient Training for Empathetic Spoken Chatbots with Frozen LLMs
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2604.18159v1 Announce Type: new Empathy is essential for fostering natural interactions in spoken dialogue systems, as it enables machines to recognize the emotional tone of human speech and deliver empathetic responses. Recent research has made significant progress in developing empathetic spoken chatbots based on large language models (LLMs). However, several challenges still exist when