TARGET SPEAKER KEYWORD SPOTTING

Organization Name

Google LLC

Inventor(s)

Pai Zhu of New York City NY (US)

Beltrán Labrador Serrano of Madrid (ES)

Guanlong Zhao of Long Island City NY (US)

Angelo Alfredo Scorza Scarpati of New York NY (US)

Quan Wang of Hoboken NJ (US)

Alex Seungryong Park of Mountain View CA (US)

Ignacio Lopez Moreno of Jersey City NJ (US)

TARGET SPEAKER KEYWORD SPOTTING

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250078840 titled 'TARGET SPEAKER KEYWORD SPOTTING

Original Abstract Submitted

a method includes receiving audio data corresponding to an utterance spoken by a particular user and captured in streaming audio by a user device. the method also includes performing speaker identification on the audio data to identify an identity of the particular user that spoke the utterance. the method also includes obtaining a keyword detection model personalized for the particular user based on the identity of the particular user that spoke the utterance. the keyword detection model is conditioned on speaker characteristic information associated with the particular user to adapt the keyword detection model to detect a presence of a keyword in audio for the particular user. the method also includes determining that the utterance includes the keyword using the keyword detection model personalized for the particular user.