From Speech to Interaction: Analyzing Multimodal Systems in Cocktail-Party Scenarios
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arXiv:2608.08510 (cs)
[Submitted on 9 Aug 2026]
Title:From Speech to Interaction: Analyzing Multimodal Systems in Cocktail-Party Scenarios
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Abstract:Humans have the remarkable ability to engage in spontaneous informal conversations and selectively attend to individual speakers while filtering out competing speech from nearby conversations. This "cocktail party" scenario still presents severe challenges to speech recognition systems. The CHiME-9 MCoRec task provides a testbed where systems must recognize groups of speakers and transcribe each of their conversations from audio-visual input. In this work, we analyze a diverse set of systems, representing different design directions for addressing the cocktail-party scenario, where the best system achieves up to 57% relative error reduction. We identify three main strategies: (1) explicit or implicit audio-visual target speech separation, (2) improved audio-visual speech recognition for each target speaker, and (3) the use of large language models to group speakers into conversations and enhance conversational consistency. Our analysis shows that these directions address complementary failure modes of the cocktail-party problem, and that high speech overlap alone does not explain performance differences, challenging the common assumption that overlap is the primary source of difficulty in cocktail-party recognition.
| Comments: | Accepted at ICMI 2026 |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2608.08510 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2608.08510v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.08510
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| Related DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3776574.3831133
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