Spoken Language Models that Think Aloud

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-22 in cs.CL. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-09-22 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-23

Category: cs.CL · 自然语言处理 · first seen 2026-09-23

Abstract

While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has improved the capability of language models, directly applying it to Spoken Language Models (SLMs) may introduce long silent intervals under the serial "think-then-speak" paradigm, disrupting real-time spoken interaction. To address this issue, we propose an asynchronous think-aloud framework for reasoning-based SLMs within the Thinker-Talker architecture.

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