US Patent 11335332 Trigger to keyword spotting system (KWS)

In accordance with embodiments, methods and systems for a trigger to the KWS are provided. The computing device converts an audio signal into a plurality of audio frames. The computing device generates a Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) matrix. The MFCC matrix includes N columns. Each column of the N columns comprises coefficients associated with audio features corresponding to a different audio frame of the plurality of audio frames. The computing device determines that a trigger condition is satisfied based on an MFCC_0 buffer. The MFCC_0 buffer comprises a first row of the MFCC matrix. The computing device then provides the MFCC matrix to a neural network for the neural network to use the MFCC matrix to make keyword inference based on the determining that the trigger condition is satisfied.