Robust detection of voiced segments in samples of everyday conversations using unsupervised HMMS

2012 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 438-442

  Asgari, Meysam ^a   Shafran, Izhak ^a   Bayestehtashk, Alireza ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

life log; speech detection; voice detection

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; HARMONIC COEFFICIENTS; HARMONIC MODEL; HARMONIC NOISE; HMM MODELS; LARGE CORPORA; LIFE LOG; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI CRITERIA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CRITERIA; MODEL PARAMETERS; NON-STATIONARY PROPERTIES; NORMALIZED CROSS-CORRELATION; ROBUST DETECTION; SPEECH DETECTION; VOICE DETECTION; VOICED SEGMENT; VOICED SPEECH;

AUDIO RECORDINGS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SPEECH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84874223263     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2012.6424264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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