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For noisy environments, ensuring the robustness of keyword spotting (KWS) systems is essential. While much research has focused on noisy KWS, less attention has been paid to multi-talker mixed speech scenarios. Unlike the usual cocktail…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Haoyu Li , Baochen Yang , Yu Xi , Linfeng Yu , Tian Tan , Hao Li , Kai Yu

Keyword spotting (KWS) is essential for voice-driven applications, demanding both accuracy and efficiency. Traditional ASR-based KWS methods, such as greedy and beam search, explore the entire search space without explicitly prioritizing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Yu Xi , Haoyu Li , Xiaoyu Gu , Yidi Jiang , Kai Yu

We propose a new method of generating meaningful embeddings for speech, changes to four commonly used meta learning approaches to enable them to perform keyword spotting in continuous signals and an approach of combining their outcomes into…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-26 Florian Lux , Ngoc Thang Vu

Large-scale pre-trained models have achieved remarkable success in language and image tasks, leading an increasing number of studies to explore the application of pre-trained image models, such as CLIP, in the domain of few-shot action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Congqi Cao , Peiheng Han , Yueran zhang , Yating Yu , Qinyi Lv , Lingtong Min , Yanning zhang

In this paper we investigate cross-lingual Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis through the lens of adapters, in the context of lightweight TTS systems. In particular, we compare the tasks of unseen speaker and language adaptation with the goal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Alessio Falai , Ziyao Zhang , Akos Gangoly

Conversational agents such as Alexa and Google Assistant constantly need to increase their language understanding capabilities by adding new domains. A massive amount of labeled data is required for training each new domain. While domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Sungjin Lee , Rahul Jha

Keyword spotting (KWS) is an important technique for speech applications, which enables users to activate devices by speaking a keyword phrase. Although a phoneme classifier can be used for KWS, exploiting a large amount of transcribed data…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-23 Takuya Higuchi , Anmol Gupta , Chandra Dhir

Text-to-image retrieval is a critical task for managing diverse visual content, but common benchmarks for the task rely on small, single-domain datasets that fail to capture real-world complexity. Pre-trained vision-language models tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Muhammad Huzaifa , Yova Kementchedjhieva

Keyword spotting (KWS) on mobile devices generally requires a small memory footprint. However, most current models still maintain a large number of parameters in order to ensure good performance. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Shenghua Hu , Jing Wang , Yujun Wang , Lidong Yang , Wenjing Yang

With the increasing prevalence of voice-activated devices and applications, keyword spotting (KWS) models enable users to interact with technology hands-free, enhancing convenience and accessibility in various contexts. Deploying KWS models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Jonathan Svirsky , Uri Shaham , Ofir Lindenbaum

In this paper, we investigated a speech augmentation based unsupervised learning approach for keyword spotting (KWS) task. KWS is a useful speech application, yet also heavily depends on the labeled data. We designed a CNN-Attention…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jian Luo , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Haobin Tang , Jing Xiao

We propose VoiceTailor, a parameter-efficient speaker-adaptive text-to-speech (TTS) system, by equipping a pre-trained diffusion-based TTS model with a personalized adapter. VoiceTailor identifies pivotal modules that benefit from the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Heeseung Kim , Sang-gil Lee , Jiheum Yeom , Che Hyun Lee , Sungwon Kim , Sungroh Yoon

In this paper, we focus on improving the performance of the text-dependent speaker verification system in the scenario of limited training data. The speaker verification system deep learning based text-dependent generally needs a large…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xiaoyi Qin , Yaogen Yang , Lin Yang , Xuyang Wang , Junjie Wang , Ming Li

One of the challenges in developing a high quality custom keyword spotting (KWS) model is the lengthy and expensive process of collecting training data covering a wide range of languages, phrases and speaking styles. We introduce Synth4Kws…

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

The keyword spotting (KWS) problem requires large amounts of real speech training data to achieve high accuracy across diverse populations. Utilizing large amounts of text-to-speech (TTS) synthesized data can reduce the cost and time…

Fine-tuning is a popular method for adapting text-to-speech (TTS) models to new speakers. However this approach has some challenges. Usually fine-tuning requires several hours of high quality speech per speaker. There is also that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Cheng-Ping Hsieh , Subhankar Ghosh , Boris Ginsburg

Keyword spotting systems for always-on TinyML-constrained applications require on-site tuning to boost the accuracy of offline trained classifiers when deployed in unseen inference conditions. Adapting to the speech peculiarities of target…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Cristian Cioflan , Lukas Cavigelli , Luca Benini

This paper addresses the persistent challenge in Keyword Spotting (KWS), a fundamental component in speech technology, regarding the acquisition of substantial labeled data for training. Given the difficulty in obtaining large quantities of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Weinan Dai , Yifeng Jiang , Yuanjing Liu , Jinkun Chen , Xin Sun , Jinglei Tao

Keyword Spotting (KWS) enables speech-based user interaction on smart devices. Always-on and battery-powered application scenarios for smart devices put constraints on hardware resources and power consumption, while also demanding high…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Simon Mittermaier , Ludwig Kürzinger , Bernd Waschneck , Gerhard Rigoll

Despite the recent successes of deep neural networks, it remains challenging to achieve high precision keyword spotting task (KWS) on resource-constrained devices. In this study, we propose a novel context-aware and compact architecture for…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Xi Chen , Shouyi Yin , Dandan Song , Peng Ouyang , Leibo Liu , Shaojun Wei