Low-complexity variable frame rate analysis for speech recognition and voice activity detection

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 798-807

  Tan, Zheng Hua ^a   Lindberg, Børge ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Distributed speech recognition; frame selection; noise robust speech recognition; variable frame rate; voice activity detection (VAD)

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SPEECH RECOGNITION; FRAME SELECTION; NOISE ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; VARIABLE FRAME RATE; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION;

LINGUISTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77956733652     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2010.2057192     Document Type: Article

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