Comparison of voice activity detectors for interview speech in NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2353-2356

  Yu, Hon Bill ^a   Mak, Man Wai ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Likelihood ratio tests; NIST SRE; Speaker verification; Spectral subtraction; Voice activity detection

Indexed keywords

LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; NIST SRE; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTIONS; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION;

SPEECH CODING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84865791238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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