Whereas conventional spoken language understanding (SLU) systems map speech to text, and then text to intent, end-toend SLU systems map speech directly to intent through a single trainable model. Achieving high accuracy with these end-toend models without a large amount of training data is difficult. We propose a method to reduce the data requirements of endto-end SLU in which the model is first pre-trained to predict words and phonemes, thus learning good features for SLU. We introduce a new SLU dataset, Fluent Speech Commands, and show that our method improves performance both when the full dataset is used for training and when only a small subset is used. We also describe preliminary experiments to gauge the model's ability to generalize to new phrases not heard during training.
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