Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology

The Korean Society of Marine Engineering (한국마린엔지니어링학회)
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Voice Activity Detection Based on Signal Energy and Entropy-difference in Noisy Environments

엔트로피 차와 신호의 에너지에 기반한 잡음환경에서의 음성검출

  • 하동경 (한양대학교 컴퓨터.제어.전자통신공학부) ;
  • 조석제 (한양대학교) ;
  • 진강규 (한양대학교 컴퓨터.제어.전자통신공학부) ;
  • 신옥근 (한양대학교 컴퓨터.제어.전자통신공학부)
  • Published : 2008.07.31
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Abstract

In many areas of speech signal processing such as automatic speech recognition and packet based voice communication technique, VAD (voice activity detection) plays an important role in the performance of the overall system. In this paper, we present a new feature parameter for VAD which is the product of energy of the signal and the difference of two types of entropies. For this end, we first define a Mel filter-bank based entropy and calculate its difference from the conventional entropy in frequency domain. The difference is then multiplied by the spectral energy of the signal to yield the final feature parameter which we call PEED (product of energy and entropy difference). Through experiments. we could verify that the proposed VAD parameter is more efficient than the conventional spectral entropy based parameter in various SNRs and noisy environments.

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