Title
RNN-T BASED OPEN-VOCABULARY KEYWORD SPOTTING IN MANDARIN WITH MULTI-LEVEL DETECTION
Abstract
Despite the recent prevalence of keyword spotting (KWS) in smart-home, open-vocabulary KWS remains a keen but unmet need among the users. In this paper, we propose an RNN Transducer (RNN-T) based keyword spotting system with a constrained attention mechanism biasing module that biases the RNN-T model towards a specific keyword of interest. The atonal syllables are adopted as the modeling units, which addresses the out-of-vocabulary (OOV) problem. A multi-level detection is applied to the posterior probabilities for the judgement. Evaluating on the AISHELL-2 dataset shows our proposed method outperforms the RNN-T-based approach by 2.70% in false reject rate (FRR) at 1 false alarm (FA) per hour. We further provide insights into the role of each stage of the detection cascade, where most negative samples are filtered out by the first stage with high computational efficiency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9413588
2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP 2021)
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
keyword spotting, RNN-T, constrained attention, multi-level detection
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zuozhen Liu100.34
Ta Li2337.75
Pengyuan Zhang35019.46