Jointly gaussian pdf-based likelihood ratio test for voice activity detection

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1565-1578

  Górriz, Juan Manuel ^a   Ramírez, Javier ^a   Lang, Elmar W ^b   Puntonet, Carlos G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Generalized complex gaussian (gcg) probability distribution function; Robust speech recognition; Voice activity detection (vad)

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ERRORS; COMPLEX GAUSSIAN; CORRELATED OBSERVATIONS; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; GAUSSIAN PDF; GAUSSIAN PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; GENERALIZED COMPLEX GAUSSIAN (GCG) PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; LOW DIMENSIONAL; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; OBSERVATION MODEL; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH DETECTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH/NONSPEECH DETECTION; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION (VAD); VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTORS;

DETECTORS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ERROR DETECTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70350433096     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2004293     Document Type: Article

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