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"text": "The with other VADs specified in the ITU standard G.729B, we introduce three criteria: 1) the probability of correctly detecting speech frames cS P is the ratio of the correct speech decision to the total number of hand-labeled speech frames. 2) the probability of correctly detecting noise frames cN P is the ratio of the correct noise decision to the total number of hand-labeled noise frames. 3) the false-alarm f P is the ratio of the false speech decision or false noise decision to the total hand-labeled frames. Under a variety of SNR's, the cS P , cN P and f P of the proposed algorithm are compared with those of the VAD specified in the ITU standard G.729B [8] and other entropy-based VAD [11] . The experimental results are summarized in Table I . It is shown that. In high SNR, the result of Shen's VAD is comparable to proposed VAD. But, the proposed VAD has superior performance to the Shen's VAD and G.729B particularly in low SNR. ",
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"text": "For the th m frame, the spectral energy of the th \u03be subband is evaluated by the sum of squares: boundaries and the upper boundaries of the th \u03be subband, respectively. The th \u03be frequency subbands energy of pure speech signal of the th m noise power of the th \u03be frequency subband."
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"text": "adaptively estimated by smoothing filtering and be discussed later. It is found that the more the frequency subband covered by noise would result in the smaller the ( , ) E m \u03be \u0276 . Since the frequency subband with higher ( , ) E m \u03be \u0276 contains more pure speech"
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"text": "The Results of Correct Detection Accuracy with Number of Different Frequency Subband at -5dB, 10 dB and 30 dB under Three Types of Noise.information, we should sort the frequency subband according to their ( , ) is the index of the frequency subband with the th i max energy.It means that the index of the frequency subband with higher energy is the more useful index of one. Moreover, we should only select the useful frequency subbands for VAD results output. That is, the first N frequency subbands 1 denoted as the useful number of frequency subband, ub N , for the succeeding calculation of spectral entropy.According to the relation between the number of useful frequency subbands ub N and SNR (shown asFig. 3), we can see that the number of useful frequency subband increases with the increase of SNR under three types noises including white noise, factory noise and vehicle noise.denote the boundary of ub N among the range from -5dB to 30dB, respectively.Based on the above finds, a linear function can be used to simulate the relationship between ub N and SNR , and shown asFig. 4. m is depended on the all summation of subbnad-based posterior SNR"
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"text": "speech database contained 60 speech phrases (in Mandarin and in English) spoken by 35 native speakers (20 males and 15 females), sampled at 4 KHz with 16-bit resolution. To set up the noisy signal for test, we add the prepared noise signals to the recorded speech signal with different SNRs range from -5dB to 30 dB. The noise signals are all taken from the noise database NOISEX-92 [15]. Of the various noises available on the NOISEX database, white noise, factory noise and vehicle noise are selected as speech containment. Fig. 5 shows the VAD result of the proposed algorithm on the noisy speech signal \"May-I-Help-you\" under variable-level of noise. It is founded that the VAS of the proposed algorithm can correctly extract speech segments especially for unvoiced segment /H/ occurred at /Help/ sentence in Fig. 5(b). Conversely, in Fig. 5(c) the VAS of standard G729B performs fail during high variable-level of noise segment and unvoiced segment. In order to compare"
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