Comparison of two methods of voice activity detection in field studies

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1658-1663

  Lindstrom, Fredric ^a   Ren, Keni ^b   Li, Haibo ^b   Waye, Kerstin Persson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Voice accumulation; Voice assessment; Voice dosimetry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BINAURAL HEARING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FIELD STUDY; HEARING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VOICE;

EAR; ELECTRONICS; ENVIRONMENT; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; NECK; NOISE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPEECH; VIBRATION; VOICE;

EID: 71649110349     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2009/08-0175)     Document Type: Article

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