A 6 mW, 5,000-Word Real-Time Speech Recognizer Using WFST Models
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Chandrakasan, Anantha P.
Price, Michael R.
Glass, James R.
Date Issued
December 2014
Journal
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Citation
Price, Michael, James Glass, and Anantha P. Chandrakasan. “A 6 mW, 5,000-Word Real-Time Speech Recognizer Using WFST Models.” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits 50, no. 1 (January 2015): 102–112.
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Abstract
We describe an IC that provides a local speech recognition capability for a variety of electronic devices. We start with a generic speech decoder architecture that is programmable with industry-standard WFST and GMM speech models. Algorithm and architectural enhancements are incorporated in order to achieve real-time performance amid system-level constraints on internal memory size and external memory bandwidth. A 2.5 × 2.5 mm test chip implementing this architecture was fabricated using a 65 nm process. The chip performs a 5,000 word recognition task in real-time with 13.0% word error rate, 6.0 mW core power consumption, and a search efficiency of approximately 16 nJ per hypothesis.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2014.2367818