말소리와 음성과학 (Phonetics and Speech Sciences)

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  • Pages.11-16
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  • 2013
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  • 2005-8063(pISSN)
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  • 2586-5854(eISSN)
한국음성학회 (Korean Society of Speech Sciences)
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음성구간검출을 위한 비정상성 잡음에 강인한 특징 추출

Robust Feature Extraction for Voice Activity Detection in Nonstationary Noisy Environments

  • 홍정표 (한국과학기술원, 전기 및 전자공학과) ;
  • 박상준 (한국과학기술원, 전기 및 전자공학과) ;
  • 정상배 (경상대학교, 전자공학과(공학연구원)) ;
  • 한민수 (한국과학기술원, 전기 및 전자공학과)
  • 투고 : 2012.11.06
  • 심사 : 2012.03.13
  • 발행 : 2013.03.31
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This paper proposes robust feature extraction for accurate voice activity detection (VAD). VAD is one of the principal modules for speech signal processing such as speech codec, speech enhancement, and speech recognition. Noisy environments contain nonstationary noises causing the accuracy of the VAD to drastically decline because the fluctuation of features in the noise intervals results in increased false alarm rates. In this paper, in order to improve the VAD performance, harmonic-weighted energy is proposed. This feature extraction method focuses on voiced speech intervals and weighted harmonic-to-noise ratios to determine the amount of the harmonicity to frame energy. For performance evaluation, the receiver operating characteristic curves and equal error rate are measured.

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