From: barons@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Barry Arons)
Subject: Re: Speech detection/processing in presence of noise
Organization: M.I.T. Media Laboratory
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 01:29:38 GMT

I have been doing some work in the area of detecting speech vs. background
noise, but not in separating them.  I have a draft of a review paper on the
topic, but it is not yet available for general release.  Enclosed is my
current (long) bibliography.

Barry.

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B. S. Atal and L. R. Rabiner.
A pattern recognition approach to voiced-unvoiced- silence
  classification with applications to speech recognition.
 IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,
  ASSP-24(3):201--212, June 1976.

B. Arons.
Techniques, perception, and applications of time-compressed speech,
  1992.
To appear in Proceedings of the American Voice I/O Society
  Conference.

P. T. Brady.
A technique for investigating on-off patterns of speech.
 The Bell System Technical Journal, 44(1):1--22, January 1965.

P. T. Brady.
A statistical analysis of on-off patterns in 16 conversations.
 The Bell System Technical Journal, 47(1):73--91, January 1968.

P. T. Brady.
A model for generating on-off speech patterns in two-way
  conversation.
 The Bell System Technical Journal, 48:2445--2472, September
  1969.

S. J. Campanella.
Digital speech interpolation.
 COMSAT Technical Review, 6(1):127--158, Spring 1976.

P. De Souza.
A statistical approach to the design of an adaptive self-normalizing
  silence detector.
 IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,
  ASSP-31(3):678--684, June 1983.

P. G. Drago, A. M. Molinari, and F. C. Vagliani.
Digital dynamic speech detectors.
 IEEE Transactions on Communications, COM-26(1):140--145,
  January 1978.

C. K. Gan and R. W. Donaldson.
Adaptive silence deletion for speech storage and voice mail
  applications.
 IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,
  36(6):924--927, June 1988.
J. G. Gruber and N. H. Le.
Performance requirements for integrated voice/data networks.
 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications,
  SAC-1(6):981--1005, December 1983.

J. G. Gruber.
A comparison of measured and calculated speech temporal parameters
  relevant to speech activity detection.
 IEEE Transactions on Communications, COM-30(4):728--738, April
  1982.

W. J. Hess.
A pitch-synchronous digital feature extraction system for phonemic
  recognition of speech.
 IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,
  ASSP-24(1):14--25, February 1976.

J. A. Jankowski.
A new digital voice-activated switch.
 COMSAT Technical Review, 6(1):159--178, Spring 1976.

H. Kobatake, K. Tawa, and A. Ishida.
Speech/nonspeech discrimination for speech recognition system, under
  real life noise environments.
In  Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics,
  Speech, and Signal Processing, pages 365--368. IEEE, 1989.

J. F. Lynch Jr., J. G. Josenhans, and R. E. Crochiere.
Speech/silence segmentation for real-time coding via rule based
  adaptive endpoint detection.
In  Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics,
  Speech, and Signal Processing, pages 1348--1351. IEEE, 1987.

L. F. Lamel, L. R. Rabiner, A. E. Rosenberg, and J. G. Wilpon.
An improved endpoint detector for isolated word recognition.
 IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,
  ASSP-29(4):777--785, August 1981.

H. H. Lee and C. K. Un.
A study of on-off characteristics of conversational speech.
 IEEE Transactions on Communications, COM-34(6):630--637, June
  1986.

H. Miedema and M. G. Schachtman.
TASI quality---effect of speech detectors and interpolators.
 The Bell System Technical Journal, pages 1455--1473, 1962.

Natural MicroSystems Corporation.
 ME/2 Device Driver Reference Manual, 1988.

D. O'Shaughnessy.
 Speech Communication: Human and Machine.
Addison-Wesley, 1987.

L. R. Rabiner and M. R. Sambur.
An algorithm for determining the endpoints of isolated utterances.
 The Bell System Technical Journal, 54(2):297--315, February
  1975.

L.R. Rabiner and R.W. Schafer.
 Digital Processing of Speech Signals.
Signal Processing Series. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New
  Jersey, 1978.

C. Schmandt and B. Arons.
A conversational telephone messaging system.
 IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, CE-30(3):xxi--xxiv,
  August 1984.

M. H. Savoji.
A robust algorithm for accurate endpointing of speech signals.
 Speech Communication, 8:45--60, 1989.

T. Watanabe.
The adaptation of machine conversational speed to speaker utterance
  speed in human-machine communication.
 IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,
  20(1):502--507, 1990.

J. G. Wilpon, L. R. Rabiner, and T. Martin.
An improved word-detection algorithm for telephone-quality speech
  incorporating both syntactic and semantic constraints.
 AT\&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal, 63(3):479--497,
  March 1984.

Y. Yatsuzuka.
Highly sensitive speech detector and high-speed voiceband data
  discriminator in DSI-ADPCM systems.
 IEEE Transactions on Communications, COM-30(4):739--750, April
  1982.
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