Voice activity detection based on a family of parametric distributions

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1295-1299

  Shin, Jong Won ^a   Chang, Joon Hyuk ^b   Kim, Nam Soo ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Inha University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Generalized gamma; Statistical modeling; Voice activity detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GENERALIZED GAMMA; STATISTICAL MODELING; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 34249658531     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2006.11.015     Document Type: Article

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