Adaptively Reserved Likelihood Ratio-based Robust Voice Activity Detection with Sub-band Double Features

HE Weijun; HE Qianhua; WU Junfeng; YANG Jichen

doi:10.11999/JEIT160157

Volume 38 Issue 11

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HE Weijun, HE Qianhua, WU Junfeng, YANG Jichen. Adaptively Reserved Likelihood Ratio-based Robust Voice Activity Detection with Sub-band Double Features[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2016, 38(11): 2879-2886. doi: 10.11999/JEIT160157

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HE Weijun, HE Qianhua, WU Junfeng, YANG Jichen. Adaptively Reserved Likelihood Ratio-based Robust Voice Activity Detection with Sub-band Double Features[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2016, 38(11): 2879-2886. doi: 10.11999/JEIT160157

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Adaptively Reserved Likelihood Ratio-based Robust Voice Activity Detection with Sub-band Double Features

doi: 10.11999/JEIT160157

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The National Natural Science Foundation of China (61571192), The Science and Technology Foundation of Guangdong Province (2015A010103003), The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, SCUT (2015ZM143)

Received Date: 2016-02-04
Rev Recd Date: 2016-06-27
Publish Date: 2016-11-19

Abstract

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In order to improve the correct rate of Voice Activity Detection (VAD) in low Signal Noise Ratio (SNR) environment, the paper presents an adaptive reserved likelihood ratio VAD method, which is based on sub-band double features. The method employs sub-band auto correlate function and sub-band zero crossing rate in the process of setting reserved weight. Reserved threshold is estimated adaptively according to the passed VAD results and their sub-band feature parameters. The experiment shows its promising performance in comparison with similar algorithms, the VAD correct rate is improved by 1.2%, 7.2%, and 8.1% respectively in 10 dB, 0 dB, and -10 dB stationary white noisy environment, 1.6% and 3.4% respectively in 10 dB and 0 dB non-stationary Babble noisy environment. The method is also applied to 2.4 kbps low bit rate vocoder and the Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ) is improved by 0.098~0.153 in white noisy environment, 0.157~0.186 in Babble noisy environment.
- Voice Activity Detection (VAD),
- Likelihood ratio,
- Low signal noise ratio,
- Sub-band zero crossing rate

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