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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

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

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

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

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) is a fundamental module in many audio applications. Recent state-of-the-art VAD systems are often based on neural networks, but they require a computational budget that usually exceeds the capabilities of a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-07 Niccolo' Polvani , Damien Ronssin , Milos Cernak

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

The development of unsupervised Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) relies on technologies in the field of signal processing. Since the anomaly is quite ambiguous and unbounded, different detection demands may often be raised even in one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Kai Cheng , Xinzhe Li , Lijuan Che

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

Active speaker detection (ASD) is a multi-modal task that aims to identify who, if anyone, is speaking from a set of candidates. Current audio-visual approaches for ASD typically rely on visually pre-extracted face tracks (sequences of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Davide Berghi , Adrian Hilton , Philip J. B. Jackson

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

State-of-the-art deep-learning-based voice activity detectors (VADs) are often trained with anechoic data. However, real acoustic environments are generally reverberant, which causes the performance to significantly deteriorate. To mitigate…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Amir Ivry , Israel Cohen , Baruch Berdugo

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) is a fundamental preprocessing step in automatic speech recognition. This is especially true within the broadcast industry where a wide variety of audio materials and recording conditions are encountered.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-10 Misa Ogura , Matt Haynes

In this paper, we propose the use of self-supervised pretraining on a large unlabelled data set to improve the performance of a personalized voice activity detection (VAD) model in adverse conditions. We pretrain a long short-term memory…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Holger Severin Bovbjerg , Jesper Jensen , Jan Østergaard , 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

Audiovisual active speaker detection (ASD) in egocentric recordings is challenged by frequent occlusions, motion blur, and audio interference, which undermine the discernability of temporal synchrony between lip movement and speech.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Jason Clarke , Yoshihiko Gotoh , Stefan Goetze

Voice activity detection (VAD) is an important pre-processing step for speech technology applications. The task consists of deriving segment boundaries of audio signals which contain voicing information. In recent years, it has been shown…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Eklavya Sarkar , RaviShankar Prasad , Mathew Magimai. -Doss

Voice activity detection is the task of detecting speech regions in a given audio stream or recording. First, we design a neural network combining trainable filters and recurrent layers to tackle voice activity detection directly from the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Marvin Lavechin , Marie-Philippe Gill , Ruben Bousbib , Hervé Bredin , Leibny Paola Garcia-Perera

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

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

Voice activity detection (VAD), used as the front end of speech enhancement, speech and speaker recognition algorithms, determines the overall accuracy and efficiency of the algorithms. Therefore, a VAD with low complexity and high accuracy…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Jayanta Dey , Md Sanzid Bin Hossain , Mohammad Ariful Haque