The QUT-NOISE-TIMIT corpus for the evaluation of voice activity detection algorithms

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3110-3113

  Dean, David ^a   Sridharan, Sridha ^a   Vogt, Robert ^a   Mason, Michael ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evaluation protocols; Speech databases; Voice activity detection

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BACKGROUND NOISE; COMMON NOISE; EVALUATION PROTOCOL; NOISY SPEECH; SPEECH DATABASE; SPEECH EVENTS; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION ALGORITHMS; DETECTION SYSTEM; SPEECH SEQUENCES; VOICE-ACTIVITY DETECTIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 79959814199     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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