• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.665-670
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a new method of speech detection and phoneme segmentation. We investigate the effect of applying preemphasis FIR filtering on the speech signal before the usual speech detection that utilizes the energy profile for discriminating signals from background noise. By this procedure, only the speech section of low energy and frequency becomes distinct in energy profile. It is verified experimentally that the silence/speech boundary becomes sharper by applying the filtering compared to the conventional method. By applications of this procedure, phoneme segmentation is also found to be much facilitated.