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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

Personalization of on-device speech recognition (ASR) has seen explosive growth in recent years, largely due to the increasing popularity of personal assistant features on mobile devices and smart home speakers. In this work, we present…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Shaojin Ding , Rajeev Rikhye , Qiao Liang , Yanzhang He , Quan Wang , Arun Narayanan , Tom O'Malley , Ian McGraw

Personal voice activity detection has received increased attention due to the growing popularity of personal mobile devices and smart speakers. PVAD is often an integral element to speech enhancement and recognition for these applications…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-19 Yicheng Hsu , Mingsian R. Bai

Robust Voice Activity Detection (VAD) remains a challenging task, especially under noisy, diverse, and unseen acoustic conditions. Beyond algorithmic development, a key limitation in advancing VAD research is the lack of large-scale,…

Voice activity detection (VAD) is essential in speech-based systems, but traditional methods detect only speech presence without identifying speakers. Target-speaker VAD (TS-VAD) extends this by detecting the speech of a known speaker using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Wen-Yung Wu , Pei-Chin Hsieh , Tai-Shih Chi

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) aims at detecting speech segments on an audio signal, which is a necessary first step for many today's speech based applications. Current state-of-the-art methods focus on training a neural network exploiting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Sina Alisamir , Fabien Ringeval , Francois Portet

This paper addresses the issue of active speaker detection (ASD) in noisy environments and formulates a robust active speaker detection (rASD) problem. Existing ASD approaches leverage both audio and visual modalities, but non-speech sounds…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Siva Sai Nagender Vasireddy , Chenxu Zhang , Xiaohu Guo , Yapeng Tian

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

Video anomaly detection (VAD) with weak supervision has achieved remarkable performance in utilizing video-level labels to discriminate whether a video frame is normal or abnormal. However, current approaches are inherently limited to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Peng Wu , Xuerong Zhou , Guansong Pang , Yujia Sun , Jing Liu , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

This paper integrates a voice activity detection (VAD) function with end-to-end automatic speech recognition toward an online speech interface and transcribing very long audio recordings. We focus on connectionist temporal classification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-16 Takenori Yoshimura , Tomoki Hayashi , Kazuya Takeda , Shinji Watanabe

Speech Activity Detection (SAD) systems often misclassify singing as speech, leading to degraded performance in applications such as dialogue enhancement and automatic speech recognition. We introduce Singing-Robust Speech Activity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Philipp Grundhuber , Mhd Modar Halimeh , Martin Strauß , Emanuël A. P. Habets

We present a novel personalized voice activity detection (PVAD) learning method that does not require enrollment data during training. PVAD is a task to detect the speech segments of a specific target speaker at the frame level using…

Target-speaker voice activity detection (TS-VAD) has recently shown promising results for speaker diarization on highly overlapped speech. However, the original model requires a fixed (and known) number of speakers, which limits its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-10 Maokui He , Desh Raj , Zili Huang , Jun Du , Zhuo Chen , Shinji Watanabe

In this paper, we show how to use audio to supervise the learning of active speaker detection in video. Voice Activity Detection (VAD) guides the learning of the vision-based classifier in a weakly supervised manner. The classifier uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Punarjay Chakravarty , Tinne Tuytelaars

Target-speaker voice activity detection is currently a promising approach for speaker diarization in complex acoustic environments. This paper presents a novel Sequence-to-Sequence Target-Speaker Voice Activity Detection (Seq2Seq-TSVAD)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Ming Cheng , Weiqing Wang , Yucong Zhang , Xiaoyi Qin , Ming Li

Keyword spotting (KWS) and speaker verification (SV) have been studied independently although it is known that acoustic and speaker domains are complementary. In this paper, we propose a multi-task network that performs KWS and SV…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Myunghun Jung , Youngmoon Jung , Jahyun Goo , Hoirin Kim

Voice activity and overlapped speech detection (respectively VAD and OSD) are key pre-processing tasks for speaker diarization. The final segmentation performance highly relies on the robustness of these sub-tasks. Recent studies have shown…

Robots are becoming everyday devices, increasing their interaction with humans. To make human-machine interaction more natural, cognitive features like Visual Voice Activity Detection (VVAD), which can detect whether a person is speaking or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Adrian Lubitz , Matias Valdenegro-Toro , Frank Kirchner

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

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