Hard C-means clustering for voice activity detection

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1638-1649

  Gorriz J M ^a   Ramirez J ^a   Lang, E W ^b   Puntonet, C G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

C means; Clustering; Prototypes; Speech recognition; Subband energy; Voice activity detection

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

CLUSTERING; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; SUBBAND ENERGY; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION (VAD);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33751423044     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2006.07.006     Document Type: Article

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