Efficient voice activity detection algorithms using long-term speech information

Speech Communication

Volumn 42, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 271-287

  Ramírez, Javier ^a   Segura, José C ^a   Benítez, Carmen ^a   De la Torre, Ángel ^a   Rubio, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Long term spectral divergence; Long term spectral envelope; Speech enhancement; Speech recognition; Speech non speech detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HEARING AIDS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VOICE ACTIVATED INPUT DEVICES;

LONG-TERM SPECTRAL DIVERGENCE; LONG-TERM SPECTRAL ENVELOPE; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH/NON-SPEECH DETECTION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 1842476689     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2003.10.002     Document Type: Article

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