Leveraging Chain of Thought towards Empathetic Spoken Dialogue without Corresponding Question-Answering Data
Empathetic dialogue is crucial for natural human-computer interaction, allowing the dialogue system to respond in a more personalized and emotionally aware manner, improving user satisfaction and engagement. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized dialogue generation by harnessing their powerful capabilities and shown its potential in multimodal domains. Many studies have integrated speech with text-based LLMs to take speech question as input and output text response. However, the lack of spoken question-answering datasets that include speech style information to supervised fine-tuning (SFT) limits the performance of these systems. As a result, while these systems excel at understanding speech content, they often struggle to generate empathetic responses. In response, we propose a novel approach that circumvents the need for question-answering data, called Listen, Perceive, and Express (LPE). Our method employs a two-stage training process, initially guiding the LLM to listen the content and perceive the emotional aspects of speech. Subsequently, we utilize Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting to unlock the model's potential for expressing empathetic responses based on listened spoken content and perceived emotional cues. We employ experiments to prove the effectiveness of proposed method. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to leverage CoT for speech-based dialogue.
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