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How to calculate false alarm rate?

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2019-08-29
2019-08-29
  • Joseph Huang

    Joseph Huang - 2019-08-29

    Following the tuning process in the tutorial, I am trying to optimize the threshold for keyword search. I met some problems, however, in the plotting of ROC curve. To determine detection rate is no problem, but I don't know how to calculate the false alarm rate. I know how to count the number of flase alarm, yet, don't know how to define the denominator of flase alarm rate. Could anybody give me some advices?

     
    • Nickolay V. Shmyrev

      Denominator is the amount of signalled keywords (both false and true).

       
  • Joseph Huang

    Joseph Huang - 2019-08-29

    According to the tuning process in the tutorial, in the 1 hour long recording of movie sound with few occurrences of my keyword (only 1 keyword), I know how to count the occurence of flase alarm but I don't know how to define the denominator of false alarm rate. Is it the total number of keyword search in the 1 hour period? If it is, how to get the total number of keyword search in the 1 hour period?

     
    • Nickolay V. Shmyrev

      Denominator is a number of keyword detections. You run pocketsphinx_continuous, it will output you 5 detected keywords, some of them are true, some false. This 5 is the denominator.

       

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