HOWL

In-browser keyword spotting for hey firefox

A weights can be obtained from the python implementation howl

Instructions

• Fetch trained weights: git submodule update --init --recursive

• Install docker and enable GPU support

• docker build -t howl .

In-browser keyword spotting

To see the working demo, simply run

docker run -it -p 8000:8000 -v $(pwd):/app/src/ howl
npm run dev

The server is running at localhost:8000

Evaluating the performance of JS implementation

processed dataset for evaluation can be found from howl

nvidia-docker run -it -p 8000:8000 -v <path_to_dataset>:/data -v $(pwd):/app/src/ howl
npm run eval

Things to note

• Eventhough we use Meyda.js fore feature extraction, it has been modified quite a bit that we recommend looking at our source code directly to understand what is going on with feature extraction.