PromptKWS: A Novel Prompt-Guided Open-Vocabulary Keyword Spotting Framework
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arXiv:2608.28640v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we present PromptKWS, a novel Prompt-guided keyword spotting (KWS) framework to improve the accuracy of open vocabulary KWS systems. In specific terms, we introduce the Prompt Phrases Prediction Network (PPN), an encoder-decoder architecture designed to effectively extract keyword prompts embeddings. we employ the PPN encoder to encode the keyword prompts and infuse the prompt embedding into the Prompt-guided KWS encoder by utilizing a Prompt-acoustic Multi-head Cross-attention (MHCA). Experiments show that PromptKWS improves the
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.28640v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we present PromptKWS, a novel Prompt-guided keyword spotting (KWS) framework to improve the accuracy of open vocabulary KWS systems.
- In specific terms, we introduce the Prompt Phrases Prediction Network (PPN), an encoder-decoder architecture designed to effectively extract keyword prompts embeddings.
- we employ the PPN encoder to encode the keyword prompts and infuse the prompt embedding into the Prompt-guided KWS encoder by utilizing a Prompt-acoustic Multi-head Cross-attention (MHCA).
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