A new Kullback-Leibler VAD for speech recognition in noise

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 2 PART II, 2004, Pages 266-269

  Ramírez, Javier ^a   Segura, José C ^a   Benítez, Carmen ^a   De La Torre, Angel ^a   Rubio, Antonio J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Kullback Leibler (KL) divergence; Noise reduction; Robust speech recognition; Voice activity detection (VAD)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NOISE ABATEMENT; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

DISTRIBUTED SPEECH RECOGNITION; KULLBACK-LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 10744220144     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2003.821762     Document Type: Article

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