arxivcs.ROcs.AIcs.CL2026-07-08
Multimodal Voice Activity Projection for Turn-Taking in Social Robots with Voice-Activity-Related Pretrained Encoders
Antonio Cano, Guillermo Pérez, Luis Merino, Randy Gomez
Turn-taking prediction is a key requirement for social robots involved in human-human interaction, particularly in mediator settings, where the robot must anticipate conversational dynamics rather than merely react to pauses. This work presents a Multimodal Voice Activity Project…