A low complexity statistical voice activity detector with performance comparisons to ITU-T / ETSI voice activity detectors

ICICS-PCM 2003 - Proceedings of the 2003 Joint Conference of the 4th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing and 4th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 119-123

  Davis, Alan ^a   Nordholm, Sven ^a  

^a Western Australian Telecommunications Research Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDS; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; ENERGY VARIATIONS; MODERN STANDARDS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION ALGORITHMS; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTORS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33646782212     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICICS.2003.1292425     Document Type: Conference Paper

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