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Oct 28, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

EchoChat: From Voice Perception to Empathetic Response in Speech Dialogue

EchoChat introduces a unified framework for empathetic speech dialogue that decomposes empathy into acoustic perception, Theory of Mind reasoning, and response generation, using Acoustic-Anchored Attention and step-decomposed credit assignment to improve understanding and response alignment, evaluated on new datasets EchoDialogue-400K and EchoEval.