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Oct 23, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

EchoChat: Modeling Empathetic Speech Dialogue with Perception, Theory of Mind, and Unified Training

EchoChat introduces a structured cognitive framework for empathetic speech dialogue, decomposing empathy into perception, Theory of Mind reasoning, and response generation, trained with Acoustic-Anchored Attention and Step-Decomposed Credit Assignment on the EchoDialogue-400K dataset, achieving leading performance on the EchoEval benchmark.