Sequence-to-sequence Models for Small-Footprint Keyword Spotting

In this paper, we propose a sequence-to-sequence model for keyword spotting (KWS). Compared with other end-to-end architectures for KWS, our model simplifies the pipelines of production-quality KWS system and satisfies the requirement of high accuracy, low-latency, and small-footprint. We also evaluate the performances of different encoder architectures, which include LSTM and GRU. Experiments on the real-world wake-up data show that our approach outperforms the recently proposed attention-based end-to-end model. Specifically speaking, with 73K parameters, our sequence-to-sequence model achieves ~3.05% false rejection rate (FRR) at 0.1 false alarm (FA) per hour.