• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.08a
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• pp.465-469
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• 1998

가변 전송율 음성 부호화기를 위한 음성 검출기를 통계적 모델을 적용하여 설계한다. 제안된 음성 검출기는 음성 파라미터를 decision-directed 방식으로 추정함으로써 LRT를 이용하여 동작 특성이 우수한 판정 규칙을 유도한다. 또한 음성 발생 사건들을 1차의 Markov process 로 모델링 함으로써 과거의 관찰들을 현재 프레임의 음성 검출 과정에서 고려할 수 있는 행오버 알고리즘을 개발한다. 개발된 음성 검출기는 고려된 실험환경에서 ITU-T 표준인 G.729 Annex B 음성 검출기보다 맹 우수한 성능을 나타내었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.76-81
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to improve the performance of a statistical model-based voice activity detection (VAD) which is based on the second-order conditional maximum a posteriori (CMAP). In our approach, the VAD decision rule is expressed as the geometric mean of likelihood ratios (LRs) based on adapted threshold according to the speech presence probability conditioned on both the current observation and the speech activity decisions in the pervious two frames. Experimental results show that the proposed approach yields better results compared to the statistical model-based and the CMAP-based VAD using the LR test.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.12C
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• pp.1660-1668
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• 2004

This paper proposes a Voice Activity Detection (VAD) algorithm based on Radial Basis Function (RBF) network using dual threshold. The k-means clustering and Least Mean Square (LMS) algorithm are used to upade the RBF network to the underlying speech condition. The inputs for RBF are the three parameters in a Code Exited Linear Prediction (CELP) coder, which works stably under various background noise levels. Dual hangover threshold applies in BRF-VAD for reducing error, because threshold value has trade off effect in VAD decision. The experimental result show that the proposed VAD algorithm achieves better performance than G.729 Annex B at any noise level.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.26 no.8
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• pp.397-402
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• 2007

In this paper, we apply a support vector machine(SVM) that incorporates an optimized nonlinear decision rule over different sets of feature vectors to improve the performance of statistical model-based voice activity detection(VAD). Conventional method performs VAD through setting up statistical models for each case of speech absence and presence assumption and comparing the geometric mean of the likelihood ratio (LR) for the individual frequency band extracted from input signal with the given threshold. We propose a novel VAD technique based on SVM by treating the LRs computed in each frequency bin as the elements of feature vector to minimize classification error probability instead of the conventional decision rule using geometric mean. As a result of experiments, the performance of SVM-based VAD using the proposed feature has shown better results compared with those of reported VADs in various noise environments.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.145-150
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a novel scheme to improve the performance of a voice activity detection(VAD) which is based on the deep belief networks(DBN) with the likelihood ratio(LR). The proposed algorithm applies the DBN learning method which is trained in order to minimize the probability of detection error instead of the conventional decision rule using geometric mean. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm yields better results compared to the conventional VAD algorithm in various noise environments.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.08a
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• pp.375-379
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• 1998

음성 언어 자료의 확보 및 활용을 위해서는 다양한 소프트웨어의 도움이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 본 연구실에서 설계 및 개발한 PC용 Workbench에 대하여 기술한다. Workbench는 음성 언어 자료의 확보를 위한 텍스트 처리 모듈들과 음성 데이터의 처리를 위한 신호처리 모듈들로 구성되어 있다. Workbench에 포함된 모듈로는 텍스트를 자동 읽기 변환하는 철자 음운 변환기, 발성 목록 선정 모듈, 끝점 검출기를 이용한 음성 데이터 편집 모듈, 끝점 검출기를 이용한 음성 데이터 편집 모듈, 다단계 레이블링 시스템, 텍스트에서 원하는 음운 환경을 포함하고 있는 문자열을 다양한 조건으로 검색할 수 있는 음운 환경 검색기를 포함하고 있다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.100-106
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• 2008

In this paper we apply a discriminative weight training employing power spectral flatness measure (PSFM) to a statistical model-based voice activity detection (VAD) in various noise environments. In our approach, the VAD decision rule is expressed as the geometric mean of optimally weighted likelihood ratio test (LRT) based on a minimum classification error (MCE) method which is different from the previous works in th at different weights are assigned to each frequency bin and noise environments depending on PSFM. According to the experimental results, the proposed approach is found to be effective for the statistical model-based VAD using the LRT.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.324-329
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to improve the performance of a statistical model-based voice activity detection (VAD) which is based on the conditional maximum a posteriori (CMAP) with deviation. In our approach, the VAD decision rule is expressed as the geometric mean of likelihood ratios (LRs) based on adapted threshold according to the speech presence probability conditioned on both the speech activity decisions and spectral deviation in the pervious frame. Experimental results show that the proposed approach yields better results compared to the CMAP-based VAD using the LR test.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.7
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• pp.372-378
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• 2008

Voice activity detectors (VAD) are important in wireless communication and speech signal processing, In the conventional VAD methods, an expression for the likelihood ratio test (LRT) based on statistical models is derived in discrete Fourier transform (DFT) domain, Then, speech or noise is decided by comparing the value of the expression with a threshold, This paper presents a new statistical VAD method based on a signal subspace approach, The probabilistic principal component analysis (PPCA) is employed to obtain a signal subspace model that incorporates probabilistic model of noisy signal to the signal subspace method, The proposed approach provides a novel decision rule based on LRT in the signal subspace domain, Experimental results show that the proposed signal subspace model based VAD method outperforms those based on the widely used Gaussian distribution in DFT domain.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.294-299
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm to improve the performance of a voice activity detection(VAD) which is based on the generalized normal-Laplace(GNL) distribution. In our algorithm, the probability density function(PDF) of the noisy speech signal is represented by the GNL distribution and the variance of the speech and noise of GNL distribution are estimated using higher order moments. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm yields better results compared to the conventional VAD algorithms.