Reliable voice activity detection algorithms under adverse environments

HUT-ICCE 2008 - 2nd International Conference on Communications and Electronics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 218-223

  Stadtschnitzer, Michael ^a   Tuan, Van Pham ^a   Tang, Tan Chien ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF DANANG   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

MFCC; Neural network; Statistical percentile filtration; Time scale feature; Voice activity detection

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE NOISE; INFORMATION FILTERING; NEURAL NETWORKS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT ALGORITHM; MEL FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL CO-EFFICIENT; MFCC; SUPERVISED NEURAL NETWORKS; TIME-SCALE FEATURES; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION ALGORITHMS; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 51549095597     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cce.2008.4578961     Document Type: Conference Paper

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