Ramesh Gundluru

CORD-KWS: Calibrated, Order-Aware Detection for Open-Vocabulary Keyword Spotting

Calibrated, Order-aware Detection KWS (CORD-KWS), a training framework that introduces two complementary objectives while retaining the same encoders, cosine scoring, and O(1) keyword enrollment: a calibrated detection head that supervises absolute scores, and a frame-level CTC objective that preserves phonetic order i...