A voice activity detector employing soft decision based noise spectrum adaptation
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In this paper, a voice activity detector (VAD) for variable rate speech coding is decomposed into two parts, a decision rule and a background noise statistic estimator, which are analysed separately by applying a statistical model. A robust decision rule is derived from the generalized likelihood ratio test by assuming that the noise statistics are known a priori. To estimate the time-varying noise statistics, allowing for the occasional presence of the speech signal, a novel noise spectrum adaptation algorithm using the soft decision information of the proposed decision rule is developed. The algorithm is robust, especially for the time-varying noise such as babble noise.
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