Noise robust voice activity detection based on statistical model and parallel non-linear kalman filtering

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Fujimoto, Masakiyo ^a   Ishizuka, Kentaro ^a   Kato, Hiroko ^a  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forward backward estimation; Kalman filtering; Multiplied estimator; Speech processing; State space methods

Indexed keywords

KALMAN FILTERS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; STATE SPACE METHODS;

FORWARD BACKWARD ESTIMATION; MULTIPLIED ESTIMATORS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547508186     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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