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Research Publications in journals:
Combining pulse-based features for rejecting far-field speech in aHMM-based Voice Activity Detector
Year:2011

Research Areas
  • Electronic technology and of the communications,
  • Electric engineers, electronic and automatic (eil)

Information
Abstract
Nowadays, several computational techniques for speech recognition have been proposed. These techniques suppose an important improvement in real time applications where speaker interacts with speech recognition systems. Although researchers proposed many methods, none of them solve the high false alarm problem when far-field speakers interfere in a human-machine conversation. This paper presents a two-class (speech and non-speech classes) decision-tree based approach for combining new speech pulse features in a VAD (Voice Activity Detector) for rejecting far-field speech in speech recognition systems. This decision tree is applied over the speech pulses obtained by a baseline VAD composed of a frame feature extractor, a HMM-based (Hidden Markov Model) segmentation module and a pulse detector. The paper also presents a detailed analysis of a great amount of features for discriminating between close and far-field speech. The detection error obtained with the proposed VAD is the lowest compared to other well-known VADs.
International
Si
JCR
Si
Title
Computers & Electrical Engineering
ISBN
0045-7906
Impact factor JCR
0,484
Impact info
Volume
37
10.1016/j.compeleceng.2011.04.005
Journal number
4
From page
589
To page
600
Month
SIN MES
Ranking
Q4
Participants

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Grupo de Tecnología del Habla
  • Departamento: Señales, Sistemas y Radiocomunicaciones
  • Departamento: Ingeniería Electrónica