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Howl: A Deployed, Open-Source Wake Word Detection System

Raphael Tang, Jaejun Lee, Afsaneh Razi, Julia Cambre, Ian Bicking, Jofish Kaye, Jimmy Lin

2020-08-21EMNLP (NLPOSS) 2020 11Keyword Spotting
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Abstract

We describe Howl, an open-source wake word detection toolkit with native support for open speech datasets, like Mozilla Common Voice and Google Speech Commands. We report benchmark results on Speech Commands and our own freely available wake word detection dataset, built from MCV. We operationalize our system for Firefox Voice, a plugin enabling speech interactivity for the Firefox web browser. Howl represents, to the best of our knowledge, the first fully productionized yet open-source wake word detection toolkit with a web browser deployment target. Our codebase is at https://github.com/castorini/howl.

Results

TaskDatasetMetricValueModel
Keyword SpottingGoogle Speech CommandsGoogle Speech Commands V1 1297.8res 8

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