Online unsupervised classification with model comparison in the variational bayes framework for voice activity detection

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1071-1083

  Cournapeau, David ^a,b   Watanabe, Shinji ^b   Nakamura, Atsushi ^b   Kawahara, Tatsuya ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Sequential estimation; speech analysis; variational Bayes (VB); voice activity detection (VAD)

Indexed keywords

DECISION LEVELS; DECISION THRESHOLD; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; MODEL COMPARISON; NOISE TYPES; ON-LINE FASHION; REMOTE RECORDING; SEQUENTIAL ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL MODELS; TIME FRAME; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; UNSUPERVISED METHOD; VARIATIONAL BAYES; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION;

CLASSIFIERS; SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 78649271854     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2010.2080821     Document Type: Article

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