A robust voice activity detector for wireless communications using soft computing

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1818-1829

  Beritelli, Francesco ^a,b   Casale, Salvatore ^a,b,c   Cavallaro, Alfredo ^b  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic (FL); Mobile communication; Pattern recognition; Speech coding; Voice activity detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PATTERN MATCHING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH CODING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION;

MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032308777     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.737650     Document Type: Article

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