A support vector machine-based voice activity detection employing effective feature vectors

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E91-B, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2090-2093

  Jo, Q Haing ^a   Park, Yun Sik ^a   Lee, Kye Hwan ^a   Chang, Joon Hyuk ^a  

^a Inha University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

A posteriori SNR; A priori SNR; Predicted SNR; Support vector machine; Voice activity detection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VECTORS;

DIFFERENT CLASS; FEATURE VECTORS; POSTERIORI SNR; PREDICTED SNR; PRIORI SNR; STATISTICAL MODELING; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 67651040596     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e91-b.6.2090     Document Type: Conference Paper

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