Using information theory to detect voice activity

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4613-4616

  Talantzis, Fotios ^a   Constantinides, Anthony G ^b  

^a ATHENS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Array signal processing; Information theory; Speech analysis; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SOURCES; ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIFFUSE NOISE; EXPERIMENTAL ENVIRONMENT; LOW-COHERENCE; NOISE LEVELS; VOICE ACTIVITY; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION;

INFORMATION THEORY; MICROPHONES; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 70349220074     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960658     Document Type: Conference Paper

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