Can You Say This for Me? Speaking Up by Proxy in Co-Located Discussion

arXiv cs.AIAugust 28, 2026en

arXiv:2608.26185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Equal participation in co-located discussion is important for effective collaboration, yet people often hold back when they anticipate negative interpersonal or professional consequences, especially when raising a point requires voicing it themselves. We present SecondVoice, a mixed-reality system that enables people to speak up through an embodied virtual proxy. By separating what is said from who says it, SecondVoice brings hesitant points into the live spoken discussion without putting the speaker on the spot. Using a private overlay, users specify their intent through a structured specification process rather than composing a full utterance

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