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Voice activity detection (VAD) is a critical component in various applications such as speech recognition, speech enhancement, and hands-free communication systems. With the increasing demand for personalized and context-aware technologies,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-17 Satyam Kumar , Sai Srujana Buddi , Utkarsh Oggy Sarawgi , Vineet Garg , Shivesh Ranjan , Ognjen , Rudovic , Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz , Saurabh Adya

When we use End-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E-ASR) system for real-world applications, a voice activity detection (VAD) system is usually needed to improve the performance and to reduce the computational cost by discarding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-03 Meng Li , Xia Yan , Feng Lin

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) refers to the problem of distinguishing speech segments from background noise. Numerous approaches have been proposed for this purpose. Some are based on features derived from the power spectral density,…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Thomas Drugman , Yannis Stylianou , Yusuke Kida , Masami Akamine

In a speech recognition system, voice activity detection (VAD) is a crucial frontend module. Addressing the issues of poor noise robustness in traditional binary VAD systems based on DFSMN, the paper further proposes semantic VAD based on…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Lingyun Zuo , Keyu An , Shiliang Zhang , Zhijie Yan

The deep learning-based speech enhancement (SE) methods always take the clean speech's waveform or time-frequency spectrum feature as the learning target, and train the deep neural network (DNN) by reducing the error loss between the DNN's…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-02 Yuewei Zhang , Huanbin Zou , Jie Zhu

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) often operates on speech segments detected by a Voice Activity Detection (VAD) model. However, VAD models may output flawed speech segments, especially in noisy environments, resulting in degraded…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Natsuo Yamashita , Masaaki Yamamoto , Yohei Kawaguchi

We propose a novel voice activity detection (VAD) model in a low-resource environment. Our key idea is to model VAD as a denoising task, and construct a network that is designed to identify nuisance features for a speech classification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Jonathan Svirsky , Ofir Lindenbaum

Voice activity detection (VAD) makes a distinction between speech and non-speech and its performance is of crucial importance for speech based services. Recently, deep neural network (DNN)-based VADs have achieved better performance than…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Zhenpeng Zheng , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jian Luo , Jing Xiao

In this study, we propose an encoder-decoder structured system with fully convolutional networks to implement voice activity detection (VAD) directly on the time-domain waveform. The proposed system processes the input waveform to identify…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-22 Cheng Yu , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , I-Fan Lin , Szu-Wei Fu , Yu Tsao , Jeih-weih Hung

Speech activity detection (SAD) plays an important role in current speech processing systems, including automatic speech recognition (ASR). SAD is particularly difficult in environments with acoustic noise. A practical solution is to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Fei Tao , Carlos Busso

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) is an important pre-processing step in a wide variety of speech processing systems. VAD should in a practical application be able to detect speech in both noisy and noise-free environments, while not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Claus Meyer Larsen , Peter Koch , Zheng-Hua Tan

Traditional supervised voice activity detection (VAD) methods work well in clean and controlled scenarios, with performance severely degrading in real-world applications. One possible bottleneck is that speech in the wild contains…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Heinrich Dinkel , Yefei Chen , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

In this paper, we focus on audio violence detection (AVD). AVD is necessary for several reasons, especially in the context of maintaining safety, preventing harm, and ensuring security in various environments. This calls for accurate AVD…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Sarthak Jain , Orchid Chetia Phukan , Arun Balaji Buduru , Rajesh Sharma

In the realm of digital audio processing, Voice Activity Detection (VAD) plays a pivotal role in distinguishing speech from non-speech elements, a task that becomes increasingly complex in noisy environments. This paper details the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Joshua Ball

Sociometric badges are an emerging technology for study how teams interact in physical places. Audio data recorded by sociometric badges is often downsampled to not record discussions of the sociometric badges holders. To gain more…

Voice activity detection (VAD) remains a challenge in noisy environments. With access to multiple microphones, prior studies have attempted to improve the noise robustness of VAD by creating multi-channel VAD (MVAD) methods. However, MVAD…

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) is the process of automatically determining whether a person is speaking and identifying the timing of their speech in an audiovisual data. Traditionally, this task has been tackled by processing either audio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Andrea Appiani , Cigdem Beyan

Personal Voice Activity Detection (PVAD) is crucial for identifying target speaker segments in the mixture, yet its performance heavily depends on the quality of speaker embeddings. A key practical limitation is the short enrollment…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Fuyuan Feng , Wenbin Zhang , Yu Gao , Longting Xu , Xiaofeng Mou , Yi Xu

In this article, we conduct a study on the performance of some supervised learning algorithms for vowel recognition. This study aims to compare the accuracy of each algorithm. Thus, we present an empirical comparison between five supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Rimah Amami , Dorra Ben Ayed , Noureddine Ellouze

This paper aims at improving the classification accuracy of a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier with Sequential Minimal Optimization (SMO) training algorithm in order to properly classify failure and normal instances from oil and gas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhiyuan Chen , Isa Dino , Nik Ahmad Akram