Long-term spectro-temporal and static harmonic features for voice activity detection

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 834-844

  Fukuda, Takashi ^a   Ichikawa, Osamu ^a   Nishimura, Masafumi ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Average phoneme duration; harmonic structure; long term temporal information; voice activity detection (VAD)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INFORMATION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; AVERAGE PHONEME DURATION; CEPSTRAL DOMAIN; ERROR REDUCTION; HARMONIC STRUCTURE; HARMONIC STRUCTURES; HUMAN VOICE; LOW SNR; MODEL-BASED; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; STATISTICAL MODELS; STRUCTURE-BASED; TEMPORAL FEATURES; TEMPORAL INFORMATION; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION; WORD ERROR RATE;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77956739501     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2010.2069750     Document Type: Article

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