Bispectrum estimators for voice activity detection and speech recognition

Authors:
J. M. Górriz;C. G. Puntonet;J. Ramírez;J. C. Segura
Affiliations:
E.T.S.I.I., Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain;E.T.S.I.I., Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain;E.T.S.I.I., Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain;E.T.S.I.I., Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Venue:
NOLISP'05 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Non-Linear Analyses and Algorithms for Speech Processing
Year:
2005

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Abstract

A new Bispectra Analysis application is presented is this paper. A set of bispectrum estimators for robust and effective voice activity detection (VAD) algorithm are proposed for improving speech recognition performance in noisy environments. The approach is based on filtering the input channel to avoid high energy noisy components and then the determination of the speech/non-speech bispectra by means of third order auto-cumulants. This algorithm differs from many others in the way the decision rule is formulated (detection tests) and the domain used in this approach. Clear improvements in speech/non-speech discrimination accuracy demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed VAD. It is shown that application of statistical detection test leads to a better separation of the speech and noise distributions, thus allowing a more effective discrimination and a tradeoff between complexity and performance. The algorithm also incorporates a previous noise reduction block improving the accuracy in detecting speech and non-speech. The experimental analysis carried out on the AURORA databases and tasks provides an extensive performance evaluation together with an exhaustive comparison to the standard VADs such as ITU G.729, GSM AMR and ETSI AFE for distributed speech recognition (DSR), and other recently reported VADs.