Robust voice activity detection for interview speech in NIST speaker recognition evaluation

APSIPA ASC 2010 - Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 64-71

  Mak, Man Wai ^a   Yu, Hon Bill ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Far field microphone; NIST speaker recognition evaluations; Noise reduction; Speaker verification; Spectral subtraction; Voice activity detection

Indexed keywords

FAR-FIELD MICROPHONE; NOISE REDUCTIONS; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTIONS; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; DATA PROCESSING; DETECTORS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH CODING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79958108816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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