Vocal Tract Length Warped Features for Spoken Keyword Spotting

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Main Authors: Sarkar, Achintya kr., Dwivedi, Priyanka, Tan, Zheng-Hua
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Published: 2025
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author Sarkar, Achintya kr.
Dwivedi, Priyanka
Tan, Zheng-Hua
author_facet Sarkar, Achintya kr.
Dwivedi, Priyanka
Tan, Zheng-Hua
contents In this paper, we propose several methods that incorporate vocal tract length (VTL) warped features for spoken keyword spotting (KWS). The first method, VTL-independent KWS, involves training a single deep neural network (DNN) that utilizes VTL features with various warping factors. During training, a specific VTL feature is randomly selected per epoch, allowing the exploration of VTL variations. During testing, the VTL features with different warping factors of a test utterance are scored against the DNN and combined with equal weight. In the second method scores the conventional features of a test utterance (without VTL warping) against the DNN. The third method, VTL-concatenation KWS, concatenates VTL warped features to form high-dimensional features for KWS. Evaluations carried out on the English Google Command dataset demonstrate that the proposed methods improve the accuracy of KWS.
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spellingShingle Vocal Tract Length Warped Features for Spoken Keyword Spotting
Sarkar, Achintya kr.
Dwivedi, Priyanka
Tan, Zheng-Hua
Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
In this paper, we propose several methods that incorporate vocal tract length (VTL) warped features for spoken keyword spotting (KWS). The first method, VTL-independent KWS, involves training a single deep neural network (DNN) that utilizes VTL features with various warping factors. During training, a specific VTL feature is randomly selected per epoch, allowing the exploration of VTL variations. During testing, the VTL features with different warping factors of a test utterance are scored against the DNN and combined with equal weight. In the second method scores the conventional features of a test utterance (without VTL warping) against the DNN. The third method, VTL-concatenation KWS, concatenates VTL warped features to form high-dimensional features for KWS. Evaluations carried out on the English Google Command dataset demonstrate that the proposed methods improve the accuracy of KWS.
title Vocal Tract Length Warped Features for Spoken Keyword Spotting
topic Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03523