Training Intelligent Voice Assistant Wakeup with Controllable Synthetic Conversations
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arXiv:2609.27037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wake word detection is a critical component of virtual assistants, serving as the gateway to seamless user interactions. This paper introduces a novel wake-up system that extends traditional direct keyword detection with contextual trigger detection. After an initial wake word activation, the system uses reasoning to distinguish between user commands and unrelated speech, ensuring efficient and context-aware engagement. We present a data generation architecture that produces a 62.3-hour corpus of controllable multi-speaker conversations containin
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.27037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wake word detection is a critical component of virtual assistants, serving as the gateway to seamless user interactions.
- This paper introduces a novel wake-up system that extends traditional direct keyword detection with contextual trigger detection.
- After an initial wake word activation, the system uses reasoning to distinguish between user commands and unrelated speech, ensuring efficient and context-aware engagement.
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