Voice activity detection based on multiple statistical models

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 54, Issue 6 I, 2006, Pages 1965-1976

  Chang, Joon Hyuk ^a   Kim, Nam Soo ^b   Mitra, Sanjit K ^c  

^a Inha University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete cosine transform (DCT); Generalized gamma function; Maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPEECH PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM (DCT); GENERALIZED GAMMA FUNCTION; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 33744532633     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2006.874403     Document Type: Article

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