A Monaural Speech Enhancement Method For Robust Small-footprint Keyword Spotting

Abstract

Robustness against noise is critical for keyword spotting (KWS) in real-world environments. To improve the robustness, a speech enhancement front-end is involved. Instead of treating the speech enhancement as a separated preprocessing before the KWS system, in this study, a pre-trained speech enhancement front-end and a convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based KWS system are concatenated, where a feature transformation block is used to transform the output from the enhancement front-end into the KWS system's input. The whole model is trained jointly, thus the linguistic and other useful information from the KWS system can be back-propagated to the enhancement front-end to improve its performance. To fit the small-footprint device, a novel convolution recurrent network is proposed, which needs fewer parameters and computation and does not degrade performance. Furthermore, by changing the input features from the power spectrogram to Mel-spectrogram, less computation and better performa

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