Acoustic Event Detection at Amazon Alexa

Explore acoustic event detection (AED) and its applications in Amazon Alexa during this informative talk by Ming Sun, lead of the AED modeling team at Amazon Alexa Speech. Delve into the team's work on Alexa Guard, the pioneering AED-powered feature for Amazon Alexa, and discover their research efforts to enhance AED model accuracy and efficiency. Learn about advancements in model architecture, data information leveraging, and model compression techniques. Gain insights into the practical implementation of AED in artificial intelligence systems, enabling better understanding of surrounding environments. Understand the development of production AED models for Alexa, including those that detect smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, and glass breaking sounds. Benefit from Ming Sun's expertise, shaped by his experience in Alexa wake word detection and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Center for Language and Speech Processing.