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| author | Wang, Rui Zhang, Zhifei Gao, Yu Mou, Xiaofeng Xu, Yi |
| author_facet | Wang, Rui Zhang, Zhifei Gao, Yu Mou, Xiaofeng Xu, Yi |
| contents | Keyword spotting (KWS) is crucial for many speech-driven applications, but robust KWS in noisy environments remains challenging. Conventional systems often rely on single-channel inputs and a cascaded pipeline separating front-end enhancement from KWS. This precludes joint optimization, inherently limiting performance. We present an end-to-end multi-channel KWS framework that exploits spatial cues to improve noise robustness. A spatial encoder learns inter-channel features, while a spatial embedding injects directional priors; the fused representation is processed by a streaming backbone. Experiments in simulated noisy conditions across multiple signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) show that spatial modeling and directional priors each yield clear gains over baselines, with their combination achieving the best results. These findings validate end-to-end multi-channel spatial modeling, indicating strong potential for the target-speaker-aware detection in complex acoustic scenarios. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | End-to-End Direction-Aware Keyword Spotting with Spatial Priors in Noisy Environments Wang, Rui Zhang, Zhifei Gao, Yu Mou, Xiaofeng Xu, Yi Audio and Speech Processing Keyword spotting (KWS) is crucial for many speech-driven applications, but robust KWS in noisy environments remains challenging. Conventional systems often rely on single-channel inputs and a cascaded pipeline separating front-end enhancement from KWS. This precludes joint optimization, inherently limiting performance. We present an end-to-end multi-channel KWS framework that exploits spatial cues to improve noise robustness. A spatial encoder learns inter-channel features, while a spatial embedding injects directional priors; the fused representation is processed by a streaming backbone. Experiments in simulated noisy conditions across multiple signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) show that spatial modeling and directional priors each yield clear gains over baselines, with their combination achieving the best results. These findings validate end-to-end multi-channel spatial modeling, indicating strong potential for the target-speaker-aware detection in complex acoustic scenarios. |
| title | End-to-End Direction-Aware Keyword Spotting with Spatial Priors in Noisy Environments |
| topic | Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09505 |