Harman International Industries, Inc.

George Jose

Rajesh Biswal

Aashish Kumar

Srinivas Kruthiventi Subrahmanyeswara Sai

Jigar Mistry

The current disclosure relates to systems and methods for wakeword or keyword detection in Virtual Personal Assistants (VPAs). In particular, systems and methods are provided for wakeword detection using deep neural networks including a parametric pooling layer, wherein the parametric pooling layer includes trainable parameters, enabling the layer to learn to distinguish between informative feature vectors and non-informative/noisy feature vectors extracted from a variable length acoustic signal. In one example, a parametric pooling layer may aggregate a variable length feature map, comprising a plurality of feature vectors extracted from an acoustic signal, into an embedding vector of pre-determined length, by weighting each of the plurality of feature vectors based on one or more learned parameters in a parametric pooling layer, and aggregating the plurality of weighted feature vectors into the embedding vector.

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Karnataka, India

George Jose