It is estimated that 936 million adults aged 30–69 years suffer from mild to severe obstructive
sleep apnea that can result in poor sleep quality and even endanger their lives. To facilitate …

In this research, a novel snoring sound classification (SSC) method is presented by
proposing a new feature generation function to yield a high classification rate. The proposed …

For patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea and sleep-related breathing disorders,
snoring is quite common, and it greatly interferes with the quality of life for them and for the …

Abstract Speech Activity Detection (SAD) aims to correctly distinguish audio segments
containing human speech. Several solutions have been successfully applied to the SAD …

Snoring is a common disorder that affects people's social and marital lives. The annoyance
caused by snoring can be partially solved with active noise control systems. In this context …

Snoring noise can be extremely annoying and troublesome, thus influencing people's social
lives. Active noise control (ANC) systems can be implemented to reduce unwanted snoring …

In this paper an analysis on the recognition of words from speech database Whi-Spe in
normal and whispered phonation, based on the conventional HMM/GMM framework, is …

This paper proposes an automatic method for detecting snore sound, one of the important
symptoms of sleep apnea patients. In the proposed method, sound signals generated during …