A new approach for robust realtime voice activity detection using spectral pattern

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4478-4481

  Moattar, M H ^a   Homayounpour, M M ^a   Kalantari, Nima Khademi ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Spectral flatness; Spectral peaks pattern; Voice activity detection

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DETECTION APPROACH; NEW APPROACHES; REAL-TIME VOICE; SPECTRAL FLATNESS; SPECTRAL PATTERNS; SPECTRAL PEAK; SPECTRAL PEAK PATTERN; SPEECH SIGNALS; VOICE-ACTIVITY DETECTIONS; VOTING ALGORITHM;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 78049395803     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495597     Document Type: Conference Paper

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