CENSREC-1-C: An evaluation framework for voice activity detection under noisy environments

Acoustical Science and Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 363-371

  Kitaoka, Norihide ^a   Yamada, Takeshi ^b   Tsuge, Satoru ^c   Miyajima, Chiyomi ^a   Yamamoto, Kazumasa ^d   Nishiura, Takanobu ^e   Nakayama, Masato ^e   Denda, Yuki ^e   Fujimoto, Masakiyo ^f   Takiguchi, Tetsuya ^g   Tamura, Satoshi ^h   Matsuda, Shigeki ⁱ   Ogawa, Tetsuji ^j   Kuroiwa, Shingo ^k   Takeda, Kazuya ^a   Nakamura, Satoshi ^l  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^d TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation   (Japan)

^g KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^j WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^l NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Evaluation framework; Noisy speech processing; Voice activity detection

Indexed keywords

DETECTION PERFORMANCE; EVALUATION FRAMEWORK; EVALUATION MEASURES; EVALUATION RESULTS; EVALUATION TOOL; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; NOISY SPEECH PROCESSING; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION;

SPEECH CODING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70349094936     PISSN: 13463969     EISSN: 13475177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1250/ast.30.363     Document Type: Article

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