@Addlesee_AI

Senior Research Scientist at PolyAI | PhD in AI | Building conversational AI that is fast, accessible, and human-centred

 Cambridge, England
addlesee.co.uk/
Joined February 2017
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I first wrote about mid-utterance interruptions due to pauses 7 years ago! Today we launched Dialog-RSN-1, and it pauses with you. If you say "my ref ID is 4, 7, 1…" and go quiet while you check the next digits, it waits. See the full video demo here 🎉 poly.ai/dialog-rsn-1

Dialog-RSN-1 — the frontier dialog model | PolyAI

Dialog-RSN-1 reasons directly over raw call audio: turn-taking, speech recognition and response in one audio-native model, at a median 280ms in live production.

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@polyaivoiceOct 20
Dialog-RSN-1 is now GA, and anyone can get an API key and build on it today. Comparing real-time voice models? Start with the numbers. Median first-token latency is under 300ms, about the length of a blink. It has the highest quality, audio-understanding, and safety scores of any real-time-capable model, and it’s efficient enough to scale to every conversation you have. It’s audio-native, so turn-taking, speech recognition, function calling, and the response all happen in a single pass, with a separate voice output you control. Get started in three steps: 1. Pick your path: our Agent Development Kit (ADK), AWS SageMaker, or the public API, wherever your stack already lives. 2. Create your account and grab your API key. 3. Clone an example, add your key, and talk to it in your browser. Start now here: studio.poly.ai/start-buildin…
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We're looking for interns to join us at @AmazonScience! Come build the future of AI with us. We just launched Alexa+ in the UK and there's so much more to come 🎉 MS/PhD students in GenAI, LLMs, speech, NLP & more - this one's for you. Based in London or Cambridge. Links in 🧵
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Apply here: amazon.jobs/en/jobs/3126764/… And if you haven't tried Alexa+ yet, sign up here: amazon.co.uk/newalexa
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Angus Addlesee retweeted
SIGdial@sigdialFeb 1
📢 Call for Papers: #SIGDIAL2026 Submit your latest work on discourse & dialogue to the 27th Annual SIGdial Conference (Atlanta, July 13–15, 2026)! 🗓 Deadlines (AoE) • Mar 23 – Title & abstract • Mar 30 – Full paper (PDF) • May 4 – ARR commitment • May 25 – Notifications
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Our SPRING Project paper has just been published in the International Journal of Social Robotics! 🎉 📄 Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare We explore how hospital patients & our robot Ari can engage in natural, useful conversations link.springer.com/article/10…
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The paper ties together work from 8 institutions to advance human–robot interaction (HRI) in real healthcare settings We address: • Robot navigation in clinical environments • Speech processing & non-verbal behaviour • Accessible conversational AI for older adults • & more!
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This was a major collaboration across Europe, huge thanks to: @oliverlemon for leading the team from @HeriotWattUni, and all SPRING partners & colleagues who made it possible (see the huge author list!) A milestone for socially assistive robotics in healthcare! 🤖💬
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Great presentation by ⁦@Addlesee_AI⁩ at the AI dinner #aidinner #ai #dimentia
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It has been wonderful collaborating with my friends at @HeriotWattUni 's Interaction Lab (@iLab_hwu). Thanks! In January, I submitted my PhD thesis titled: "Incremental Multi-party Conversational AI for People with Dementia" Luckily, even the sun came out for graduation day ☀️
Heriot-Watt University@HeriotWattUni19 Jun 2024
Congratulations to artificial intelligence graduate John-Angus Addlesee, who is the third generation of his family following his father and grandfather to study at Heriot-Watt University. 🎓👏 #HeriotWattUni #HWUGrads

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Thrilled to get this paper out, a great collaboration with @UCL_VoCoLab, @Addlesee_AI and @verena_rieser on how self-bias and sense of agency over a voice is altered when that voice is used to represent oneself in a social interaction.
Cognition@CognitionJourn29 Apr 2024
Self-ownership, not self-production, modulates bias and agency over a synthesised voice 📢New from: Bryony Payne, Angus Addlesee, Verena Rieser, & Carolyn McGettigan sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Multi-party Multimodal Conversations Between Patients, Their Companions, and a Social Robot in a Hospital Memory Clinic Angus Addlesee, N. Cherakara, N. Nelson, D.H. Garcia, N. Gunson, W. Sieińska, C. Dondrup, O. Lemon aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-d… Best Demo Award #eacl2024

Multi-party Multimodal Conversations Between Patients, Their Companions, and a Social Robot in a...

Angus Addlesee, Neeraj Cherakara, Nivan Nelson, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Nancie Gunson, Weronika Sieińska, Christian Dondrup, Oliver Lemon. Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter...

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I am delighted to announce that we won the "Best Demo Award" at #EACL2024 🎉 It can be found here: aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-d… Thanks @eaclmeeting! Authors: @Addlesee_AI, @n_cherakara, Nivan Nelson, @d_hgarcia, @nagunson, Weronika Sieińska, @cdondrup and @oliverlemon @iLab_hwu
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Next week, I'll be speaking at the @EuropeanChatbot Summit 🎉🎉 I will present both my research, and the work by @HeriotWattUni's team on the @SpringH2020 project! We will also be bringing the ARI Robot by @PALRobotics with @oliverlemon, @nagunson, & @n_cherakara @iLab_hwu
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I am also excited to be on a research panel with Kulvinder Panesar (@kaykpanesar), Anuragini Shirish (@TAAnuragini), Anna Xygkou (@anna_ksigou), and Amany Elbanna (@DrElbannaAmany1) on the 13th March!
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Angus Addlesee retweeted
Interaction Lab@iLab_hwu31 Jan 2024
Replying to @HWUNews @DataCapitalEd @HeriotWattUni @ITT_Research
Well done to the researchers!! Angus Addlesee, @Addlesee_AI Nancie Gunson, @nagunson Daniel Hernández García Weronika Sieińska Marta Romeo Christian Dondrup, @cdondrup Oliver Lemon, @oliverlemon And special thanks to our interns: Neeraj Cherakara, @n_cherakara Nivan Nelson
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This was fun to curate! Check out our work through iLab Wrapped @iLab_hwu I have some fantastic colleagues 🎉
Interaction Lab@iLab_hwu18 Dec 2023
Welcome to iLab Wrapped!!🎉🎉 It's the end of 2023, so let's take a dive into some of the Interaction Lab's papers. Please follow your favourite authors so you can keep up with their work beyond their time at @iLab_hwu (apologies if the thread updates slowly - @Addlesee_AI)
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Angus Addlesee retweeted
Interaction Lab@iLab_hwu18 Dec 2023
The first iLab paper of 2023 was at #IWSDS2023! "Data Collection for Multi-party Task-based Dialogue in Social Robotics" By @Addlesee_AI, Weronika Sieińska, @nagunson, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, @cdondrup & @oliverlemon With @SpringH2020 & @PALRobotics drive.google.com/file/d/1gUs…
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Interaction Lab@iLab_hwu18 Dec 2023
The WTF workshop at @ACM_CUI "Building for Speech: Designing the Next Generation of Social Robots for Audio Interaction" by @Addlesee_AI @g_papaioannou and @oliverlemon We highlight critical problems that prevent spoken interactions with social robots. arxiv.org/abs/2311.01146
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Angus Addlesee retweeted
Interaction Lab@iLab_hwu18 Dec 2023
Finally, @ACM_CUI ! "Understanding and Answering Incomplete Questions" by @Addlesee_AI and @mdtux at @AmazonScience We artificially interrupted 21k questions paired with their #SPARQL queries targeting @wikidata to recover from long mid-utterance pauses amazon.science/publications/…
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Angus Addlesee retweeted
Interaction Lab@iLab_hwu18 Dec 2023
Also at @sigdial "Multi-Party Goal Tracking With LLMs: Comparing Pre-training, Fine-tuning, and Prompt Engineering" by @Addlesee_AI , Weronika Sieińska, @nagunson, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, @cdondrup & @oliverlemon Establishing the MP goal-tracking task aclanthology.org/2023.sigdia…
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