Speech/non-speech discrimination based on contextual information integrated bispectrum LRT

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 497-500

  Ramírez, Javier ^a   Górriz, Juan Manuel ^a   Segura, José Carlos ^a   Puntonet, Carlos G ^b   Rubio, Antonio J ^a  

^a Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda   (Spain)

^b Campus Universitario Fuentenueva   (Spain)

Author keywords

Contextual likelihood ratio test; Higher order statistics; Robust speech recognition; Voice activity detection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION INTEGRATED BISPECTRUM; CONTEXTUAL LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33746363506     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2006.873147     Document Type: Article

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