Noise robust voice activity detection based on switching Kalman filter

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E91-D, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 467-477

  Fujimoto, Masakiyo ^a   Ishizuka, Kentaro ^a  

^a Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

CENSREC 1 C; Noisy environment; Statistical model; Switching kalman filter; Voice activity detection

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; KALMAN FILTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CONVENTIONAL METHODS; EVALUATION FRAMEWORK; EVALUATION RESULTS; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; STATE TRANSITION MODELS; STATISTICAL MODELING; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 68149100521     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e91-d.3.467     Document Type: Article

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