Deep spoken keyword spotting: An overview

I López-Espejo, ZH Tan, JHL Hansen, J Jensen - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spoken keyword spotting (KWS) deals with the identification of keywords in audio streams
and has become a fast-growing technology thanks to the paradigm shift introduced by deep …

Adversarial music: Real world audio adversary against wake-word detection system

J Li, S Qu, X Li, J Szurley, JZ Kolter… - Advances in Neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Voice Assistants (VAs) such as Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant rely on wake-
word detection to respond to people's commands, which could potentially be vulnerable to …

Unacceptable, where is my privacy? exploring accidental triggers of smart speakers

L Schönherr, M Golla, T Eisenhofer, J Wiele… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa, Google's Assistant, or Apple's Siri, have become the
primary (voice) interface in smart speakers that can be found in millions of households. For …

Monophone-based background modeling for two-stage on-device wake word detection

M Wu, S Panchapagesan, M Sun, J Gu… - … , Speech and Signal …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate on-device wake word detection is crucial to products with far-field voice control
such as the Amazon Echo. It is quite challenging to build a wake word system with both low …

End-to-end streaming keyword spotting

R Alvarez, HJ Park - ICASSP 2019-2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a system for keyword spotting that, except for a front-end component for feature
generation, it is entirely contained in a deep neural network (DNN) model trained" end-to …

Query-by-example on-device keyword spotting

B Kim, M Lee, J Lee, Y Kim… - 2019 IEEE automatic …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A keyword spotting (KWS) system determines the existence of, usually predefined, keyword
in a continuous speech stream. This paper presents a query-by-example on-device KWS …

Open-vocabulary keyword spotting with audio and text embeddings

N Sacchi, A Nanchen, M Jaggi… - … 2019-IEEE International …, 2019 - infoscience.epfl.ch
Keyword Spotting (KWS) systems allow detecting a set of spoken (pre-defined) keywords.
Open-vocabulary KWS systems search for the keywords in the set of word hypotheses …

[PDF][PDF] GAN-Based Data Generation for Speech Emotion Recognition.

SE Eskimez, D Dimitriadis, R Gmyr… - …, 2020 - interspeech2020.org
In this work, we propose a GAN-based method to generate synthetic data for speech
emotion recognition. Specifically, we investigate the usage of GANs for capturing the data …

Data augmentation for robust keyword spotting under playback interference

A Raju, S Panchapagesan, X Liu, A Mandal… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Accurate on-device keyword spotting (KWS) with low false accept and false reject rate is
crucial to customer experience for far-field voice control of conversational agents. It is …

Towards data-efficient modeling for wake word spotting

Y Gao, Y Mishchenko, A Shah… - ICASSP 2020-2020 …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wake word (WW) spotting is challenging in far-field not only because of the interference in
signal transmission but also the complexity in acoustic environment. Traditional WW model …