EP0874352A3 - Voice activity detection - Google Patents

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EP0874352A3
EP0874352A3 EP98102842A EP98102842A EP0874352A3 EP 0874352 A3 EP0874352 A3 EP 0874352A3 EP 98102842 A EP98102842 A EP 98102842A EP 98102842 A EP98102842 A EP 98102842A EP 0874352 A3 EP0874352 A3 EP 0874352A3
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activity identification
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Joachim Dipl.-Ing. Stegmann
Gerhard Dipl.-Ing. Schröder
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    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
    • G10L25/00—Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups G10L15/00 - G10L21/00
    • G10L25/78—Detection of presence or absence of voice signals
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    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
    • G10L25/00—Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups G10L15/00 - G10L21/00
    • G10L25/27—Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups G10L15/00 - G10L21/00 characterised by the analysis technique

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The speech activity identification method involves using segmentation of a speech signal with a wavelet transformation calculated for each frame, from which a set of parameters are extracted. A set of decision variables is provided for controlling a decision logic, providing a signal indicating whether or not speech is present. The speech activity identification method is employed by a speech activity identification module (5) controlling a speech coder (7) and a speech decoder (22) and a background noise coder (10) and background noise decoder (23).
EP98102842A 1997-04-22 1998-02-19 Voice activity detection Expired - Lifetime EP0874352B1 (en)

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