Voice activity detection under the highly fluctuant recording conditions of call centres

European Conference of Systems, ECS'10, European Conference of Circuits Technology and Devices, ECCTD'10, European Conference of Communications, ECCOM'10, ECCS'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 334-336

  Mica, Ivan ^a   Atassi, Hicham ^a   Prinosil, Jiri ^a   Novak, Petr ^b  

^a BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b RETIA as   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Noise estimation; Soft decision; Voice activity detection

Indexed keywords

CALL CENTRES; DETECTION RATES; NOISE ESTIMATION; PRACTICAL ISSUES; SOFT DECISION; SPEECH RECORDING; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79959912954     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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