Title
Improved Mandarin Keyword Spotting Using Confusion Garbage Model
Abstract
This paper presents an improved acoustic keyword spotting (KWS) algorithm using a novel confusion garbage model in Mandarin conversational speech. Observing the KWS corpus, we found there are many words with similar pronunciation with predefined keywords, although they have different Chinese characters and different meanings, which easily result in high false alarm rate. In this paper, an improved acoustic KWS method with confusion garbage models was developed that absorbs similar pronunciation words confused with specific keywords for a given task. One obvious advantage of such method is that it provides a flexible framework to implement the selection procedure and reduce false alarm rate effectively for a specific task. The efficiency of the proposed architecture was evaluated under HMM-based confidence measures (CM) methods and demonstrated on a conversational telephone dataset.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ICPR.2010.901
ICPR
Keywords
Field
DocType
improved acoustic keyword,high false alarm rate,different meaning,conversational telephone dataset,kws corpus,mandarin conversational speech,improved acoustic kws method,false alarm rate,different chinese character,improved mandarin keyword spotting,confusion garbage model,natural language processing,computational modeling,decoding,acoustics,speech recognition,speech,hidden markov models
Pronunciation,Chinese characters,Garbage,Computer science,Speech recognition,Keyword spotting,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Constant false alarm rate,Hidden Markov model,Vocabulary,Mandarin Chinese
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.52
4
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shilei Zhang1579.81
Zhiwei Shuang2426.83
Qin Shi36110.77
Yong Qin416142.54