Speech-Codebook Based Soft Voice Activity Detection

Authors:

Heese, F. ,  Niermann, M. ,  Vary, P.

Book Title:

Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

Organization:

IEEE

Pages:

p.p. 4335-4339

Date:

Apr. 2015

DOI:

10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178789

Language:

English

Abstract

A novel noise-robust soft Voice Activity Detector (VAD) operating in the short-time Fourier domain is presented. A speech energy gain is obtained by frame-wise processing of a noisy speech signal with a speech codebook algorithm. This gain can be used for robust voice detection. A speaker-independent speech codebook, consisting of spectral envelopes, is created in the training process. While applying the algorithm, the codebook is adapted in every frame to the current speaker by combining the harmonic pitch structure of the actual noisy speech frame with the codebook entries. Soft VAD values ranging from zero to one are calculated by post-processing of the speech gain which is obtained using gain shape vector quantization. A binary VAD is carried out by applying a threshold. The proposed method does not rely on noise a-priori knowledge and is robust w.r.t. highly non-stationary noise and adverse SNR conditions. In addition, it is possible to compromise between the detection-rate and the false-alarm-rate by varying a threshold without increasing the total number of mis-detections. Compared to state-of-the-art VAD systems, the proposed method is characterized by better detection-rates at significant lower false-alarm-rates.

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