Multi-sensor Voice Activity Detection based on multiple observation hypothesis testing

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2633-2636

  Petsatodis, Theodoros ^a,b   Talantzis, Fotios ^b,c   Boukis, Christos ^d   Tan, Zheng Hua ^a   Prasad, Ramjee ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b ATHENS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ACCENTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypothesis testing; Likelihood ratio; Speech processing; Voice Activity Detection

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; FAR-FIELD; FREQUENCY CONTENTS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; HYPOTHESIS TESTS; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; MULTI SENSOR; PROCESSING SIGNAL; SINGLE CHANNEL RECORDING; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION;

SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SENSORS;

EID: 84865764408     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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