Robust voice activity detector for real world applications using harmonicity and modulation frequency

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2645-2648

  Chuangsuwanich, Ekapol ^a   Glass, James ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Harmonicity; Human robot interaction; Modulation frequency; Voice activity detection

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; DYNAMIC NOISE; FALSE ALARM RATE; HARMONICITY; LOW-SNR ENVIRONMENT; MISS-RATE; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; NUMBER OF FALSE ALARMS; REAL-WORLD APPLICATION; SPECTRAL ENTROPY; SYSTEM LEVELS; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTORS;

ERRORS; FREQUENCY BANDS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

MODULATION;

EID: 84865802934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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