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The performance of the keyword spotting (KWS) system based on audio modality, commonly measured in false alarms and false rejects, degrades significantly under the far field and noisy conditions. Therefore, audio-visual keyword spotting,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Ao Zhang , He Wang , Pengcheng Guo , Yihui Fu , Lei Xie , Yingying Gao , Shilei Zhang , Junlan Feng

As an important part of speech recognition technology, automatic speech keyword recognition has been intensively studied in recent years. Such technology becomes especially pivotal under situations with limited infrastructures and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Ruisen Luo , Tianran Sun , Chen Wang , Miao Du , Zuodong Tang , Kai Zhou , Xiaofeng Gong , Xiaomei Yang

In this paper we explore the possibility of maximizing the information represented in spectrograms by making the spectrogram basis functions trainable. We experiment with two different tasks, namely keyword spotting (KWS) and automatic…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Kwan Yee Heung , Kin Wai Cheuk , Dorien Herremans

The goal of this work is to automatically determine whether and when a word of interest is spoken by a talking face, with or without the audio. We propose a zero-shot method suitable for in the wild videos. Our key contributions are: (1) a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Liliane Momeni , Triantafyllos Afouras , Themos Stafylakis , Samuel Albanie , Andrew Zisserman

We explore a keyword-based spoken language understanding system, in which the intent of the user can directly be derived from the detection of a sequence of keywords in the query. In this paper, we focus on an open-vocabulary keyword…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Théodore Bluche , Maël Primet , Thibault Gisselbrecht

In this work we explore the latency and accuracy of keyword spotting (KWS) models in streaming and non-streaming modes on mobile phones. NN model conversion from non-streaming mode (model receives the whole input sequence and then returns…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Oleg Rybakov , Natasha Kononenko , Niranjan Subrahmanya , Mirko Visontai , Stella Laurenzo

Self-supervised speech representation learning (S3RL) is revolutionizing the way we leverage the ever-growing availability of data. While S3RL related studies typically use large models, we employ light-weight networks to comply with tight…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Chenyang Gao , Yue Gu , Francesco Caliva , Yuzong Liu

This paper introduces the system submitted by the Yidun NISP team to the video keyword wakeup challenge. We propose a mandarin keyword spotting system (KWS) with several novel and effective improvements, including a big backbone (B) model,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Yuting Yang , Binbin Du , Yingxin Zhang , Wenxuan Wang , Yuke Li

Open-vocabulary keyword spotting (OV-KWS) enables personalized device control via arbitrary voice commands. Recently, researchers have explored using audio-text joint embeddings, allowing users to enroll phrases with text, and proposed…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yi Liu , Chuan-Che Huang , Xiao Quan

In this study, we develop the keyword spotting (KWS) and acoustic model (AM) components in a far-field speaker system. Specifically, we use teacher-student (T/S) learning to adapt a close-talk well-trained production AM to far-field by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Jinyu Li , Rui Zhao , Zhuo Chen , Changliang Liu , Xiong Xiao , Guoli Ye , Yifan Gong

The development of high-performance, on-device keyword spotting (KWS) systems for ultra-low-power hardware is critically constrained by the scarcity of specialized, multi-command training datasets. Traditional data collection through human…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Lu Gan , Xi Li

We propose GE2E-KWS -- a generalized end-to-end training and evaluation framework for customized keyword spotting. Specifically, enrollment utterances are separated and grouped by keywords from the training batch and their embedding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Pai Zhu , Jacob W. Bartel , Dhruuv Agarwal , Kurt Partridge , Hyun Jin Park , Quan Wang

Keyword spotting is often implemented by keyword classifier to the encoder in acoustic models, enabling the classification of predefined or open vocabulary keywords. Although keyword spotting is a crucial task in various applications and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Myeonghoon Ryu , June-Woo Kim , Minseok Oh , Suji Lee , Han Park

Task-specific word identification aims to choose the task-related words that best describe a short text. Existing approaches require well-defined seed words or lexical dictionaries (e.g., WordNet), which are often unavailable for many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Shuhan Yuan , Xintao Wu , Yang Xiang

Data-target association is an important step in multi-target localization for the intelligent operation of un- manned systems in numerous applications such as search and rescue, traffic management and surveillance. The objective of this…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Samuel Silva , Rengan Suresh , Feng Tao , Johnathan Votion , Yongcan Cao

Recent advancements in tool-augmented large language models have enabled them to interact with external tools, enhancing their ability to perform complex user tasks. However, existing approaches overlook the role of personalisation in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Ekaterina Taktasheva , Jeff Dalton

Student assessment is one of the most fundamental tasks in the field of AI Education (AIEd). One of the most common approach to student assessment is Knowledge Tracing (KT), which evaluates a student's knowledge state by predicting whether…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Suyeong An , Junghoon Kim , Minsam Kim , Juneyoung Park

Multi-task learning (MTL) has received considerable attention, and numerous deep learning applications benefit from MTL with multiple objectives. However, constructing multiple related tasks is difficult, and sometimes only a single task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Tao Gui , Lizhi Qing , Qi Zhang , Jiacheng Ye , Hang Yan , Zichu Fei , Xuanjing Huang

Numerous methods have been proposed to enhance Keyword Spotting (KWS) in adult speech, but children's speech presents unique challenges for KWS systems due to its distinct acoustic and linguistic characteristics. This paper introduces a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Subham Kutum , Abhijit Sinha , Hemant Kumar Kathania , Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri , Mahesh Chandra Govil

Identifying keywords in an open-vocabulary context is crucial for personalizing interactions with smart devices. Previous approaches to open vocabulary keyword spotting dependon a shared embedding space created by audio and text encoders.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Kesavaraj V , Anil Kumar Vuppala