Improvements to the IBM speech activity detection system for the DARPA RATS program

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

Volumn 2015-August, Issue , 2015, Pages 4500-4504

  Thomas, Samuel ^a   Saon, George ^a   Van Segbroeck, Maarten ^b   Narayanan, Shrikanth S ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic features; deep neural networks; robust speech recognition; Speech activity detection

Indexed keywords

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; RATS; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; EQUAL ERROR RATE; PHASE 2; PROGRAM EVALUATION; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH ACTIVITY DETECTIONS; THIRD PHASE; TIME-FREQUENCY REPRESENTATIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84946073523     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178822     Document Type: Conference Paper

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