arXiv:2606.02185eess.AS2026-06

提出说话人切换测试,验证对话表示是否真正捕捉互动结构。

Breaking the Pair: Evaluating Dyadic Interaction via Speaker Switching

论文配图:Breaking the Pair: Evaluating Dyadic Interaction via Speaker Switching
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  • 用配对距离矩阵建模双人对话全程的跨轮次相似性。
  • 真实对话与换人后对话在多种嵌入下可被稳定区分。
  • 适合研究对话建模、交互表征的学者使用。

对话中的说话人持续在声学、词汇和语义层面调整沟通行为,这种现象称为对话同化。建模这一过程需要能捕捉互动全局结构的表征,但以往方法难以将配对特异性模式与说话人特异性特征解耦,限制了对真实对话适应性的建模。本文提出配对距离矩阵(DDM),编码两人整个对话中所有回合间的两两相似性,捕捉长程跨说话人依赖关系。关键问题是:DDM反映的是真实互动,还是仅体现个体特征?为此提出说话人切换测试——将一人的回合替换为来自另一对话的无关说话人内容,保留回合级统计量但破坏原有配对共适应。能否区分真实与切换后的DDM,直接检验表征是否包含互动特异性结构。在四个嵌入类型及分类器(包括在CANDOR语料上的ResNet-50)上,真实DDM始终可被识别。与LibriSpeech对比显示,在朗读语音中判别性更高,凸显自然对话中韵律变化的重要性。GradCAM分析揭示了驱动分类的结构性线索。结果确立说话人切换测试为验证双人对话交互表征的可靠诊断工具。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Speakers in dialogue continuously adapt their communicative behavior across acoustic, lexical, and semantic dimensions, a phenomenon known as conversational entrainment. Modeling this process requires representations that capture the global structure of interaction, yet prior approaches fail to disentangle dyad-specific patterns from speaker-specific traits, limiting their ability to capture true conversational adaptation. We address this with the Dyadic Distance Matrix (DDM), which encodes all pairwise similarities between the turns of two speakers over an entire conversation, capturing long-range cross-speaker dependencies. This raises a key question: does the DDM represent genuine interaction, or merely reflect individual speaker characteristics? We propose the speaker-switch test, a principled control in which one speaker's turns are replaced with those from an unrelated speaker drawn from a different conversation. This preserves turn-level statistics while disrupting the original dyadic coadaptation. The ability to distinguish real from switched DDMs thus directly evaluates whether the representation encodes interaction-specific structure. Across four embedding types and classifiers including ResNet-50 on the CANDOR corpus, real DDMs are consistently distinguishable from their switched counterparts. Comparisons with LibriSpeech show higher discriminability in read speech, highlighting the role of prosodic variability in naturalistic conversations. GradCAM analysis further reveals distinct structural signatures driving classification. These results establish the speaker-switch test as a robust diagnostic for validating representations of dyadic conversational interaction.

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