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Lipreading, i.e. speech recognition from visual-only recordings of a speaker's face, can be achieved with a processing pipeline based solely on neural networks, yielding significantly better accuracy than conventional methods. Feed-forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Michael Wand , Jan Koutník , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Keyword spotting in edge devices is becoming increasingly important as voice-activated assistants are widely used. However, its deployment is often limited by the extreme low-power constraints of the target embedded systems. Here, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Alejandro Pequeño-Zurro , Lyes Khacef , Stefano Panzeri , Elisabetta Chicca

Keyword Spotting (KWS) plays a vital role in human-computer interaction for smart on-device terminals and service robots. It remains challenging to achieve the trade-off between small footprint and high accuracy for KWS task. In this paper,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-21 Ximin Li , Xiaodong Wei , Xiaowei Qin

Learning to recognize new keywords with just a few examples is essential for personalizing keyword spotting (KWS) models to a user's choice of keywords. However, modern KWS models are typically trained on large datasets and restricted to a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-07 Abhijeet Awasthi , Kevin Kilgour , Hassan Rom

Recurrent Neural Networks with Long Short-Term Memory cell (LSTM-RNN) have impressive ability in sequence data processing, particularly for language model building and text classification. This research proposes the combination of sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Dan Liu , Ching Yee Suen , Olga Ormandjieva

Small-Footprint Keyword Spotting (SF-KWS) has gained popularity in today's landscape of smart voice-activated devices, smartphones, and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. This surge is attributed to the advancements in Deep Learning,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Soumen Garai , Suman Samui

The problem of keyword spotting i.e. identifying keywords in a real-time audio stream is mainly solved by applying a neural network over successive sliding windows. Due to the difficulty of the task, baseline models are usually large,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Tom Véniat , Olivier Schwander , Ludovic Denoyer

State space models (SSMs) have recently shown promising results on small-scale sequence and language modelling tasks, rivalling and outperforming many attention-based approaches. In this paper, we propose a multi-head state space (MH-SSM)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-29 Yassir Fathullah , Chunyang Wu , Yuan Shangguan , Junteng Jia , Wenhan Xiong , Jay Mahadeokar , Chunxi Liu , Yangyang Shi , Ozlem Kalinli , Mike Seltzer , Mark J. F. Gales

This paper proposes a neural network architecture for tackling the query-by-example user-defined keyword spotting task. A multi-head attention module is added on top of a multi-layered GRU for effective feature extraction, and a normalized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jinmiao Huang , Waseem Gharbieh , Han Suk Shim , Eugene Kim

Keyword spotting aims to identify specific keyword audio utterances. In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks have been widely utilized in keyword spotting systems. However, their model architectures are mainly based on off-the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Tong Mo , Bang Liu

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) with sophisticated units that implement a gating mechanism have emerged as powerful technique for modeling sequential signals such as speech or electroencephalography (EEG). The latter is the focus on this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-09 Meysam Golmohammadi , Saeedeh Ziyabari , Vinit Shah , Eva Von Weltin , Christopher Campbell , Iyad Obeid , Joseph Picone

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…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Christin Jose , Joseph Wang , Grant P. Strimel , Mohammad Omar Khursheed , Yuriy Mishchenko , Brian Kulis

Cursive handwritten text recognition is a challenging research problem in the domain of pattern recognition. The current state-of-the-art approaches include models based on convolutional recurrent neural networks and multi-dimensional long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Lalita Kumari , Sukhdeep Singh , VVS Rathore , Anuj Sharma

In this paper, we propose an attention-based end-to-end neural approach for small-footprint keyword spotting (KWS), which aims to simplify the pipelines of building a production-quality KWS system. Our model consists of an encoder and an…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Changhao Shan , Junbo Zhang , Yujun Wang , Lei Xie

Thanks to Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), the accuracy of Keyword Spotting (KWS) has made substantial progress. However, as KWS systems are usually implemented on edge devices, energy efficiency becomes a critical requirement besides…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Shuai Wang , Dehao Zhang , Kexin Shi , Yuchen Wang , Wenjie Wei , Jibin Wu , Malu Zhang

Keyword spotting (KWS) plays a critical role in enabling speech-based user interactions on smart devices. Recent developments in the field of deep learning have led to wide adoption of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in KWS systems due…

We propose an end-to-end model based on convolutional and recurrent neural networks for speech enhancement. Our model is purely data-driven and does not make any assumptions about the type or the stationarity of the noise. In contrast to…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Han Zhao , Shuayb Zarar , Ivan Tashev , Chin-Hui Lee

Deep gated convolutional networks have been proved to be very effective in single channel speech separation. However current state-of-the-art framework often considers training the gated convolutional networks in time-frequency (TF) domain.…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Ziqiang Shi , Huibin Lin , Liu Liu , Rujie Liu , Shoji Hayakawa , Shouji Harada , Jiqing Han

Mainly for the sake of solving the lack of keyword-specific data, we propose one Keyword Spotting (KWS) system using Deep Neural Network (DNN) and Connectionist Temporal Classifier (CTC) on power-constrained small-footprint mobile devices,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Zhiming Wang , Xiaolong Li , Jun Zhou

With the rise of low power speech-enabled devices, there is a growing demand to quickly produce models for recognizing arbitrary sets of keywords. As with many machine learning tasks, one of the most challenging parts in the model creation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-05 James Lin , Kevin Kilgour , Dominik Roblek , Matthew Sharifi