Howl: A Deployed, Open-Source Wake Word Detection System

We describe Howl, an open-source wake word detection toolkit with native support for open speech datasets, like Mozilla Common Voice and Google Speech Commands. We report benchmark results on Speech Commands and our own freely available wake word detection dataset, built from MCV. We operationalize our system for Firefox Voice, a plugin enabling speech interactivity for the Firefox web browser. Howl represents, to the best of our knowledge, the first fully productionized yet open-source wake word detection toolkit with a web browser deployment target. Our codebase is at https://github.com/castorini/howl.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Keyword Spotting Google Speech Commands res 8 Google Speech Commands V1 12 97.8 # 4

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