Latency Control for Keyword Spotting
Abstract
Conversational agents commonly utilize keyword spotting (KWS) to initiate voice interaction with the user. For user experience and privacy considerations, existing approaches to KWS largely focus on accuracy, which can often come at the expense of introduced latency. To address this tradeoff, we propose a novel approach to control KWS model latency and which generalizes to any loss function without explicit knowledge of the keyword endpoint. Through a single, tunable hyperparameter, our approach enables one to balance detection latency and accuracy for the targeted application. Empirically, we show that our approach gives superior performance under latency constraints when compared to existing methods. Namely, we make a substantial 25\% relative false accepts improvement for a fixed latency target when compared to the baseline state-of-the-art. We also show that when our approach is used in conjunction with a max-pooling loss, we are able to improve relative false accepts by 25 % at a fixed latency when compared to cross entropy loss.
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@article{arxiv.2206.07261,
title = {Latency Control for Keyword Spotting},
author = {Christin Jose and Joseph Wang and Grant P. Strimel and Mohammad Omar Khursheed and Yuriy Mishchenko and Brian Kulis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.07261},
year = {2022}
}
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Proceedings of INTERSPEECH