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Main Authors: Cuayahuitl, Heriberto, Jang, Grace
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26747
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author Cuayahuitl, Heriberto
Jang, Grace
author_facet Cuayahuitl, Heriberto
Jang, Grace
contents Large Language Models (LLMs) have brought huge improvements to Artificial Intelligence (AI), which can be applied to general-purpose tasks. However, their application to textual or spoken medical consultations is still an open research problem. This paper proposes MeDial-Speech, a novel speech dataset for training and evaluating Med-AIs that can carry out consultations with patients. It was collected in realistic environments from robot-patient and doctor-patient dialogues, contains 111+ hours of speech data (without data augmentation), and covers four health conditions: Lewy body dementia, heart failure, shoulder pain, and angina. In addition, we propose a dialogue benchmark via sentence selection (with 20 options) to evaluate three state-of-the-art LLMs: GPT-5 mini, DeepSeek-V3, and Claude Sonnet 4. Experimental results reveal that Claude Sonnet 4 is the best in sentence selection, with 71.1% accuracy using manual transcriptions and 74.7% using automatic transcriptions, and that all LLMs are highly overconfident in their probabilistic predictions, regardless of selecting correct or incorrect sentences in medical dialogues. This dataset is free of charge for non-commercial purposes at: https://huggingface.co/datasets/hcuayahu/MeDial-Speech
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spellingShingle A Dataset of Robot-Patient and Doctor-Patient Medical Dialogues for Spoken Language Processing Tasks
Cuayahuitl, Heriberto
Jang, Grace
Artificial Intelligence
Large Language Models (LLMs) have brought huge improvements to Artificial Intelligence (AI), which can be applied to general-purpose tasks. However, their application to textual or spoken medical consultations is still an open research problem. This paper proposes MeDial-Speech, a novel speech dataset for training and evaluating Med-AIs that can carry out consultations with patients. It was collected in realistic environments from robot-patient and doctor-patient dialogues, contains 111+ hours of speech data (without data augmentation), and covers four health conditions: Lewy body dementia, heart failure, shoulder pain, and angina. In addition, we propose a dialogue benchmark via sentence selection (with 20 options) to evaluate three state-of-the-art LLMs: GPT-5 mini, DeepSeek-V3, and Claude Sonnet 4. Experimental results reveal that Claude Sonnet 4 is the best in sentence selection, with 71.1% accuracy using manual transcriptions and 74.7% using automatic transcriptions, and that all LLMs are highly overconfident in their probabilistic predictions, regardless of selecting correct or incorrect sentences in medical dialogues. This dataset is free of charge for non-commercial purposes at: https://huggingface.co/datasets/hcuayahu/MeDial-Speech
title A Dataset of Robot-Patient and Doctor-Patient Medical Dialogues for Spoken Language Processing Tasks
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26747