On-Device Domain Learning for Keyword Spotting on Low-Power Extreme Edge Embedded Systems

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Main Authors: Cioflan, Cristian, Cavigelli, Lukas, Rusci, Manuele, de Prado, Miguel, Benini, Luca
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author Cioflan, Cristian
Cavigelli, Lukas
Rusci, Manuele
de Prado, Miguel
Benini, Luca
author_facet Cioflan, Cristian
Cavigelli, Lukas
Rusci, Manuele
de Prado, Miguel
Benini, Luca
contents Keyword spotting accuracy degrades when neural networks are exposed to noisy environments. On-site adaptation to previously unseen noise is crucial to recovering accuracy loss, and on-device learning is required to ensure that the adaptation process happens entirely on the edge device. In this work, we propose a fully on-device domain adaptation system achieving up to 14% accuracy gains over already-robust keyword spotting models. We enable on-device learning with less than 10 kB of memory, using only 100 labeled utterances to recover 5% accuracy after adapting to the complex speech noise. We demonstrate that domain adaptation can be achieved on ultra-low-power microcontrollers with as little as 806 mJ in only 14 s on always-on, battery-operated devices.
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spellingShingle On-Device Domain Learning for Keyword Spotting on Low-Power Extreme Edge Embedded Systems
Cioflan, Cristian
Cavigelli, Lukas
Rusci, Manuele
de Prado, Miguel
Benini, Luca
Sound
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
Keyword spotting accuracy degrades when neural networks are exposed to noisy environments. On-site adaptation to previously unseen noise is crucial to recovering accuracy loss, and on-device learning is required to ensure that the adaptation process happens entirely on the edge device. In this work, we propose a fully on-device domain adaptation system achieving up to 14% accuracy gains over already-robust keyword spotting models. We enable on-device learning with less than 10 kB of memory, using only 100 labeled utterances to recover 5% accuracy after adapting to the complex speech noise. We demonstrate that domain adaptation can be achieved on ultra-low-power microcontrollers with as little as 806 mJ in only 14 s on always-on, battery-operated devices.
title On-Device Domain Learning for Keyword Spotting on Low-Power Extreme Edge Embedded Systems
topic Sound
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10549