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Hywel Richards

3 accepted papers

2021

Progressive Voice Trigger Detection: Accuracy vs Latency

ICASSP 2021accepted

We present an architecture for voice trigger detection for virtual assistants. The main idea in this work is to exploit information in words that immediately follow the trigger phrase. We first demonstrate that by including more audio context after a detected trigger phrase, we can indeed get a more…

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2020

Multi-Task Learning for Voice Trigger Detection

ICASSP 2020accepted

We describe the design of a voice trigger detection system for smart speakers. In this study, we address two major challenges. The first is that the detectors are deployed in complex acoustic environments with external noise and loud playback by the device itself. Secondly, collecting training examp…

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2018

Generalised Discriminative Transform via Curriculum Learning for Speaker Recognition

ICASSP 2018accepted

In this paper we introduce a speaker verification system deployed on mobile devices that can be used to personalise a keyword spotter. We describe a baseline DNN system that maps an utterance to a speaker embedding, which is used to measure speaker differences via cosine similarity. We then introduc…

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