Honkling: In-Browser Personalization for Ubiquitous Keyword Spotting

Jaejun Lee, Raphael Tang, Jimmy Lin


Abstract
Used for simple commands recognition on devices from smart speakers to mobile phones, keyword spotting systems are everywhere. Ubiquitous as well are web applications, which have grown in popularity and complexity over the last decade. However, despite their obvious advantages in natural language interaction, voice-enabled web applications are still few and far between. We attempt to bridge this gap with Honkling, a novel, JavaScript-based keyword spotting system. Purely client-side and cross-device compatible, Honkling can be deployed directly on user devices. Our in-browser implementation enables seamless personalization, which can greatly improve model quality; in the presence of underrepresented, non-American user accents, we can achieve up to an absolute 10% increase in accuracy in the personalized model with only a few examples.
Anthology ID:
D19-3016
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations
Month:
November
Year:
2019
Address:
Hong Kong, China
Editors:
Sebastian Padó, Ruihong Huang
Venues:
EMNLP | IJCNLP
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SIGDAT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
91–96
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D19-3016
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-3016
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Cite (ACL):
Jaejun Lee, Raphael Tang, and Jimmy Lin. 2019. Honkling: In-Browser Personalization for Ubiquitous Keyword Spotting. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations, pages 91–96, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Honkling: In-Browser Personalization for Ubiquitous Keyword Spotting (Lee et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
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https://aclanthology.org/D19-3016.pdf
Code
 castorini/honkling