Advancing VAD Systems Based on Multi-Task Learning with Improved Model Structures

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.14860
• Publication Date: 2023-01-01
• Authors: Zuo, Lingyun; An, Keyu; Zhang, Shiliang; Yan, Zhijie
• Keywords: FOS: Computer and information sciences; Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS); FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; Computer Science - Sound; Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Audio and Speech Processing

In a speech recognition system, voice activity detection (VAD) is a crucial frontend module. Addressing the issues of poor noise robustness in traditional binary VAD systems based on DFSMN, the paper further proposes semantic VAD based on multi-task learning with improved models for real-time and offline systems, to meet specific application requirements. Evaluations on internal datasets show that, compared to the real-time VAD system based on DFSMN, the real-time semantic VAD system based on RWKV achieves relative decreases in CER of 7.0\%, DCF of 26.1\% and relative improvement in NRR of 19.2\%. Similarly, when compared to the offline VAD system based on DFSMN, the offline VAD system based on SAN-M demonstrates relative decreases in CER of 4.4\%, DCF of 18.6\% and relative improvement in NRR of 3.5\%.