A Low-Power Hardware Accelerator of MFCC Extraction for Keyword Spotting in 22nm FDSOI

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Abstract

With the development of artificial intelligence, the real-time feature extraction of acoustic signals is required in a wide variety of applications, such as keyword spotting and speech recognition. Feature extraction based on Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) is one of the most significant methods thereinto. A software implementation of the MFCC extraction results in relatively high power consumption and computational time limitation, often making it unsuitable for tiny battery powered devices. Therefore, an on-chip accelerator of MFCC extraction is of interest in cutting-edge scenarios. This paper presents a fixed-point low-power hardware accelerator of MFCC feature extraction implemented in 22nm FDSOI technology. It consumes an average power of 2.78µW for 1024-sample frame at a clock frequency of 1MHz. For keyword spotting, the quantized accelerator achieves an average accuracy of around 96% working along with different classification networks.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2023 IEEE 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS)
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages1-5
Number of pages5
ISBN (electronic)979-8-3503-3267-4
ISBN (print)979-8-3503-3268-1
Publication statusPublished - 13 Jun 2023
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

Title5th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems
Abbreviated titleIEEE AICAS 2023
Conference number5
Duration11 - 13 June 2023
Website
LocationGrand Hyatt Hangzhou
CityHangzhou
CountryChina

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-6286-5064/work/142240675
Scopus 85166371495
Ieee 10.1109/AICAS57966.2023.10168587

Keywords

Keywords

  • Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients, acoustic signal feature extraction, digital signal processing, keyword spotting, low-power design