A practical, self-adaptive voice activity detector for speaker verification with noisy telephone and microphone data

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 7229-7233

  Kinnunen, Tomi ^a   Rajan, Padmanabhan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

speaker verification; Voice activity detection

Indexed keywords

LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; NOISY CONDITIONS; OPEN SOURCE IMPLEMENTATION; ROBUST SPEAKER VERIFICATION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTORS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84890449972     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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