Triplet loss based domain adversarial training for robust wake-up word detection in noisy environments

Abstract

A good acoustic word embedding that can well express the characteristics of word plays an important role in wake-up word detection (WWD). However, the representation ability of acoustic word embedding may be weakened due to various types of environmental noise occurred in the place where WWD works, causing performance degradation. In this paper, we proposed triplet loss based Domain Adversarial Training (tDAT) mitigating environmental factors that can affect acoustic word embedding. Through experiments in noisy environments, we verified that the proposed method effectively improves the conventional DAT approach, and checked its scalability by combining with other method proposed for robust WWD.