A computationally efficient mel-filter bank VAD algorithm for distributed speech recognition systems

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 487-497

  Vlaj, Damjan ^a   Kotnik, Bojan ^a   Horvat, Bogomir ^a   Kačič, Zdravko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Distributed speech recognition; Telecommunication systems; Voice activity detection

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); DISTRIBUTED SPEECH RECOGNITION; MEL-FILTER BANKS (MFB); VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION (VAD);

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 20844456665     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP.2005.487     Document Type: Conference Paper

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