VocalAgent: Large Language Models for Vocal Health Diagnostics with Safety-Aware Evaluation

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Main Authors: Kim, Yubin, Kim, Taehan, Kang, Wonjune, Park, Eugene, Yoon, Joonsik, Lee, Dongjae, Liu, Xin, McDuff, Daniel, Lee, Hyeonhoon, Breazeal, Cynthia, Park, Hae Won
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author Kim, Yubin
Kim, Taehan
Kang, Wonjune
Park, Eugene
Yoon, Joonsik
Lee, Dongjae
Liu, Xin
McDuff, Daniel
Lee, Hyeonhoon
Breazeal, Cynthia
Park, Hae Won
author_facet Kim, Yubin
Kim, Taehan
Kang, Wonjune
Park, Eugene
Yoon, Joonsik
Lee, Dongjae
Liu, Xin
McDuff, Daniel
Lee, Hyeonhoon
Breazeal, Cynthia
Park, Hae Won
contents Vocal health plays a crucial role in peoples' lives, significantly impacting their communicative abilities and interactions. However, despite the global prevalence of voice disorders, many lack access to convenient diagnosis and treatment. This paper introduces VocalAgent, an audio large language model (LLM) to address these challenges through vocal health diagnosis. We leverage Qwen-Audio-Chat fine-tuned on three datasets collected in-situ from hospital patients, and present a multifaceted evaluation framework encompassing a safety assessment to mitigate diagnostic biases, cross-lingual performance analysis, and modality ablation studies. VocalAgent demonstrates superior accuracy on voice disorder classification compared to state-of-the-art baselines. Its LLM-based method offers a scalable solution for broader adoption of health diagnostics, while underscoring the importance of ethical and technical validation.
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spellingShingle VocalAgent: Large Language Models for Vocal Health Diagnostics with Safety-Aware Evaluation
Kim, Yubin
Kim, Taehan
Kang, Wonjune
Park, Eugene
Yoon, Joonsik
Lee, Dongjae
Liu, Xin
McDuff, Daniel
Lee, Hyeonhoon
Breazeal, Cynthia
Park, Hae Won
Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Audio and Speech Processing
Vocal health plays a crucial role in peoples' lives, significantly impacting their communicative abilities and interactions. However, despite the global prevalence of voice disorders, many lack access to convenient diagnosis and treatment. This paper introduces VocalAgent, an audio large language model (LLM) to address these challenges through vocal health diagnosis. We leverage Qwen-Audio-Chat fine-tuned on three datasets collected in-situ from hospital patients, and present a multifaceted evaluation framework encompassing a safety assessment to mitigate diagnostic biases, cross-lingual performance analysis, and modality ablation studies. VocalAgent demonstrates superior accuracy on voice disorder classification compared to state-of-the-art baselines. Its LLM-based method offers a scalable solution for broader adoption of health diagnostics, while underscoring the importance of ethical and technical validation.
title VocalAgent: Large Language Models for Vocal Health Diagnostics with Safety-Aware Evaluation
topic Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13577