Spoken Language Understanding on the Edge

Alaa Saade, Joseph Dureau, David Leroy, Francesco Caltagirone, Alice Coucke, Adrien Ball, Clément Doumouro, Thibaut Lavril, Alexandre Caulier, Théodore Bluche, Thibault Gisselbrecht, Maël Primet

Abstract: We consider the problem of performing Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) on small devices typical of IoT applications. Our contribution is two-fold. First, we outline the design of an embedded, private-by-design SLU system and show that it has performance on-par with cloud-based commercial solutions. Second, we release the datasets used in our experiments in the interest of reproducibility and in the hope that they can prove useful to the community.