Low latency and memory efficient keyword spotting
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorBjorn Hoffmeister
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AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorBjorn Hoffmeister
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Features are disclosed for spotting keywords in utterance audio data without requiring the entire utterance to first be processed. Likelihoods that a portion of the utterance audio data corresponds to the keyword may be compared to likelihoods that the portion corresponds to background audio (e.g., general speech and/or non-speech sounds). The difference in the likelihoods may be determined, and keyword may be triggered when the difference exceeds a threshold, or shortly thereafter. Traceback information and other data may be stored during the process so that a second speech processing pass may be performed. For efficient management of system memory, traceback information may only be stored for those frames that may encompass a keyword; the traceback information for older frames may be overwritten by traceback information for newer frames.
A system comprising:
A computer-implemented method comprising:
Non-transitory computer readable storage comprising executable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more computing devices to perform a process comprising:
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