An effective subband OSF-based VAD with noise reduction for robust speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1119-1129

  Ramírez, Javier ^a,b   Segura, José C ^a,b,c   Benítez, Carmen ^a,b,c,d   De La Torre, Ángel ^a,b,e,f   Rubio, Antonio ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c ISCA ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^e LORIA   (France)

^f Institut für Angewandte Physik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Noise reduction; Robust speech recognition; Speech nonspeech detection; Subband order statistics filters

Indexed keywords

NOISY ENVIRONMENT; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH/NONSPEECH DETECTION; SUBBAND ORDER STATISTICS FILTERS;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; NOISE ABATEMENT; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 27744483317     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.853212     Document Type: Article

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