IMPROVING VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION VIA WEIGHTING LIKELIHOOD AND DIMENSION REDUCTION

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2008-03-13
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TheperformanceofthetraditionalVoiceActivityDetection(VAD)algorithmsdeclinessharplyinlowerSignal-to-NoiseRatio(SNR)environments.Inthispaper,afeatureweightinglikeli-hoodmethodisproposedfornoise-robustVAD.Thecontributionofdynamicfeaturestolikelihoodscorecanbeincreasedviathemethod,whichimprovesconsequentlythenoiserobustnessofVAD.pergencebaseddimensionreductionmethodisproposedforsavingcomputation,whichreducesthesefeaturedimensionswithsmallerpergencevalueatthecostofdegradingtheperformancealittle.ExperimentalresultsonAuroraIIdatabaseshowthatthedetectionperformanceinnoiseenvironmentscanremarkablybeimprovedbytheproposedmethodwhenthemodeltrainedincleandataisusedtodetectspeechendpoints.Usingweightinglikelihoodonthedimension-reducedfeaturesobtainscom-parable,evenbetter,performancecomparedtooriginalfull-dimensionalfeature.