Handling the Alignment for Wake Word Detection: A Comparison Between Alignment-Based, Alignment-Free and Hybrid Approaches

Autor:	Ribeiro, Vinicius, Huang, Yiteng, Shangguan, Yuan, Yang, Zhaojun, Wan, Li, Sun, Ming
Rok vydání:	2023
Předmět:	Computer Science - Computation and Language Computer Science - Sound Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Audio and Speech Processing
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	Wake word detection exists in most intelligent homes and portable devices. It offers these devices the ability to "wake up" when summoned at a low cost of power and computing. This paper focuses on understanding alignment's role in developing a wake-word system that answers a generic phrase. We discuss three approaches. The first is alignment-based, where the model is trained with frame-wise cross-entropy. The second is alignment-free, where the model is trained with CTC. The third, proposed by us, is a hybrid solution in which the model is trained with a small set of aligned data and then tuned with a sizeable unaligned dataset. We compare the three approaches and evaluate the impact of the different aligned-to-unaligned ratios for hybrid training. Our results show that the alignment-free system performs better than the alignment-based for the target operating point, and with a small fraction of the data (20%), we can train a model that complies with our initial constraints. Comment: Accepted to Interspeech 2023
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08950 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv