A Voice Activity Detection Algorithm for Wireless Communication Systems with Dynamically Varying Background Noise
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چکیده
Speech can be modeled as short bursts of vocal energy separated by silence gaps. During typical conversation, talkspurts comprise only 40% of each party’s speech and remaining 60% is silence. Communication systems can achieve spectral gain by disconnecting the users from the spectral resource during silence periods. This letter develops a simple and efficient Voice Activity Detection (VAD) algorithm to work in a mobile environment exhibiting dynamically varying background noise. The VAD uses a classification method involving the full-band energy, ratio of low-band energy to full-band energy, zero-crossing rate, and peakiness measure. key words: voice activity detection, wireless communications
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