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Voice activity detection (VAD) is the task of detecting speech in an audio stream, which is challenging due to numerous unseen noises and low signal-to-noise ratios in real environments. Recently, neural network-based VADs have alleviated…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jidong Jia , Pei Zhao , Di Wang

Voice activity detection (VAD), which classifies frames as speech or non-speech, is an important module in many speech applications including speaker verification. In this paper, we propose a novel method, called self-adaptive soft VAD, to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Youngmoon Jung , Yeunju Choi , Hoirin Kim

Recently, the deep-belief-networks (DBN) based voice activity detection (VAD) has been proposed. It is powerful in fusing the advantages of multiple features, and achieves the state-of-the-art performance. However, the deep layers of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Xiao-Lei Zhang , Ji Wu

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

Voice activity detection (VAD) is an essential pre-processing step for tasks such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speaker recognition. A basic goal is to remove silent segments within an audio, while a more general VAD system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Yefei Chen , Shuai Wang , Yanmin Qian , Kai Yu

The task of voice activity detection (VAD) is an often required module in various speech processing, analysis and classification tasks. While state-of-the-art neural network based VADs can achieve great results, they often exceed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Sebastian Braun , Ivan Tashev

Speech applications are expected to be low-power and robust under noisy conditions. An effective Voice Activity Detection (VAD) front-end lowers the computational need. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are known to be biologically plausible…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Qu Yang , Qianhui Liu , Nan Li , Meng Ge , Zeyang Song , Haizhou Li

We present MarbleNet, an end-to-end neural network for Voice Activity Detection (VAD). MarbleNet is a deep residual network composed from blocks of 1D time-channel separable convolution, batch-normalization, ReLU and dropout layers. When…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-15 Fei Jia , Somshubra Majumdar , Boris Ginsburg

In this work we present a novel single-channel Voice Activity Detector (VAD) approach. We utilize a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) which exploits the spatial information of the noisy input spectrum to extract frame-wise embedding…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Amit Sofer , Shlomo E. Chazan

Event classification is inherently sequential and multimodal. Therefore, deep neural models need to dynamically focus on the most relevant time window and/or modality of a video. In this study, we propose the Multi-level Attention Fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Mathilde Brousmiche , Jean Rouat , Stéphane Dupont

Visual voice activity detection (V-VAD) uses visual features to predict whether a person is speaking or not. V-VAD is useful whenever audio VAD (A-VAD) is inefficient either because the acoustic signal is difficult to analyze or because it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Sylvain Guy , Stéphane Lathuilière , Pablo Mesejo , Radu Horaud

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

Various neural network-based approaches have been proposed for more robust and accurate voice activity detection (VAD). Manual design of such neural architectures is an error-prone and time-consuming process, which prompted the development…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Daniel Rho , Jinhyeok Park , Jong Hwan Ko

Auditory attention decoding (AAD) is the process of identifying the attended speech in a multi-talker environment using brain signals, typically recorded through electroencephalography (EEG). Over the past decade, AAD has undergone…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Nhan Duc Thanh Nguyen , Huy Phan , Simon Geirnaert , Kaare Mikkelsen , Preben Kidmose

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

Due to the superior modeling ability of deep neural network (DNN), it is widely used in voice activity detection (VAD). However, the performance may degrade if no sufficient data especially for practical data could be used for training,…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Lu Ma , Xiaomeng Zhang , Pei Zhao , Tengrong Su

As wireless communication systems evolve, automatic modulation recognition (AMR) plays a key role in improving spectrum efficiency, especially in cognitive radio systems. Traditional AMR methods face challenges in complex, noisy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Wangye Jiang , Haoming Yang , Xinyu Lu , Mingyuan Wang , Huimei Sun , Jingya Zhang

Auditory attention detection (AAD) aims to detect the target speaker in a multi-talker environment from brain signals, such as electroencephalography (EEG), which has made great progress. However, most AAD methods solely utilize attention…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Lu Li , Cunhang Fan , Hongyu Zhang , Jingjing Zhang , Xiaoke Yang , Jian Zhou , Zhao Lv

This paper presents a new hybrid architecture for voice activity detection (VAD) incorporating both convolutional neural network (CNN) and bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) layers trained in an end-to-end manner. In addition, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 Nicholas Wilkinson , Thomas Niesler

For speech interaction, voice activity detection (VAD) is often used as a front-end. However, traditional VAD algorithms usually need to wait for a continuous tail silence to reach a preset maximum duration before segmentation, resulting in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Mohan Shi , Yuchun Shu , Lingyun Zuo , Qian Chen , Shiliang Zhang , Jie Zhang , Li-Rong Dai
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