Formant-based robust voice activity detection

IC Yoo, H Lim, D Yook - IEEE/ACM Transactions on audio …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Voice activity detection (VAD) can be used to distinguish human speech from other sounds,
and various applications can benefit from VAD-including speech coding and speech …

A novel voice activity detection for multi-channel noise reduction

R Çolak, R Akdenіz - Ieee Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, a voice activity detection technique is designed using features such as short-
term energy, periodicity and spectral flatness. The desired results are obtained by using …

VADLite: an open-source lightweight system for real-time voice activity detection on smartwatches

G Boateng, P Santhanam, J Lüscher, U Scholz… - Adjunct Proceedings of …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Smartwatches provide a unique opportunity to collect more speech data because they are
always with the user and also have a more exposed microphone compared to smartphones …

[PDF][PDF] Speech emotion recognition based on voiced emotion unit

R Elbarougy - International Journal of Computer Applications, 2019 - researchgate.net
Speech emotion recognition (SER) system is becoming a very important tool for human-
computer interaction. Previous studies in SER have been focused on utterance as one unit …

Multidomain voice activity detection during human-robot interaction

F Alonso-Martin, Á Castro-González… - Social Robotics: 5th …, 2013 - Springer
The continuous increase of social robots is leading quickly to the cohabitation of humans
and social robots at homes. The main way of interaction in these robots is based on verbal …

Analysis and detection of mimicked speech based on prosodic features

L Mary, KK Anish Babu, A Joseph - International Journal of Speech …, 2012 - Springer
This paper describes a work aimed towards understanding the art of mimicking by
professional mimicry artists while imitating the speech characteristics of known persons, and …

Voice activity detection for ultrasound-based silent speech interfaces using convolutional neural networks

A Honarmandi Shandiz, L Tóth - … , Czech Republic, September 6–9, 2021 …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Voice Activity Detection (VAD) is not easy task when the input audio signal is noisy,
and it is even more complicated when the input is not even an audio recording. This is the …

A smartphone-based zero-effort method for mitigating epidemic propagation

Q Wang, M Fu, J Wang, L Sun, R Huang, X Li… - EURASIP Journal on …, 2023 - Springer
A large number of epidemics, including COVID-19 and SARS, quickly swept the world and
claimed the precious lives of large numbers of people. Due to the concealment and rapid …

Real-time implementation of voice activity detector on ARM embedded processor of smartphones

A Sehgal, F Saki, N Kehtarnavaz - 2017 IEEE 26th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the real-time implementation of a previously developed voice activity
detector (VAD) on ARM embedded processor of smartphones as an app. The …

Efficient harmonic peak detection of vowel sounds for enhanced voice activity detection

JT Kim, SH Jung, KH Cho - IET Signal Processing, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Voice activity detection (VAD) involves discriminating speech segments from background
noise and is a critical step in numerous speech‐related applications. However …