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Generalized zero-shot audio-to-intent classification

Sound 2023-11-07 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Audio and Speech Processing

Abstract

Spoken language understanding systems using audio-only data are gaining popularity, yet their ability to handle unseen intents remains limited. In this study, we propose a generalized zero-shot audio-to-intent classification framework with only a few sample text sentences per intent. To achieve this, we first train a supervised audio-to-intent classifier by making use of a self-supervised pre-trained model. We then leverage a neural audio synthesizer to create audio embeddings for sample text utterances and perform generalized zero-shot classification on unseen intents using cosine similarity. We also propose a multimodal training strategy that incorporates lexical information into the audio representation to improve zero-shot performance. Our multimodal training approach improves the accuracy of zero-shot intent classification on unseen intents of SLURP by 2.75% and 18.2% for the SLURP and internal goal-oriented dialog datasets, respectively, compared to audio-only training.

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@article{arxiv.2311.02482,
  title  = {Generalized zero-shot audio-to-intent classification},
  author = {Veera Raghavendra Elluru and Devang Kulshreshtha and Rohit Paturi and Sravan Bodapati and Srikanth Ronanki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.02482},
  year   = {2023}
}
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