A Cascade Architecture for Keyword Spotting on Mobile Devices

Raziel Alvarez
Chris Thornton
Mohammadali Ghodrat
31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017), Long Beach, CA, USA (2017)

Abstract

We present a cascade architecture for keyword spotting with speaker verification on mobile devices. By pairing a small computational footprint with specialized digital signal processing (DSP) chips, we are able to achieve low power consumption while continuously listening for a keyword.