A new confidence measure combining hidden Markov models and artificial neural networks of phonemes for effective keyword spotting

• Main Authors: Leow, Su Jun., Lau, Tze Siong., Goh, Alvina., Peh, Han Meng., Ng, Teck Khim., Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco., Lee, Chin-Hui.
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84231; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11852
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, we present an acoustic keyword spotter that operates in two stages, detection and verification. In the detection stage, keywords are detected in the utterances, and in the verification stage, confidence measures are used to verify the detected keywords and reject false alarms. A new c...