An Improved Voice Activity Detection Algorithm Employing Speech Enhancement Preprocessing

Yoon-Chang LEE
Sang-Sik AHN

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E84-A    No.6    pp.1401-1405
Publication Date: 2001/06/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Papers Selected from 2000 International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC 2000))
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voice activity detection,  speech enhancement,  maximal ratio combining,  

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Summary: 
In this paper, we first propose a new speech enhancement preprocessing algorithm by combining power subtraction method and maximal ratio combining technique, then apply it to both energy-based and statistical model-based VAD algorithm to improve the performance even in low SNR conditions. We also perform extensive computer simulations to demonstrate the performance improvement of the proposed VAD algorithm employing the proposed speech enhancement preprocessing algorithm under various background noise environments.