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A modified MAP criterion based on hidden Markov model for voice activity detecion

  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Harbin Normal University

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Abstract

The maximum a posteriori (MAP) criterion is broadly used in the statistical model-based voice activity detection (VAD) approaches. In the conventional MAP criterion, however, the inter-frame correlation of the voice activity is not taken into consideration. In this paper, we proposes a novel modified MAP criterion based on a two-state hidden Markov model (HMM) to improve the performance of the VAD, and the the inter-frame correlation of the voice activity is modeled. With the proposed MAP criterion, the decision rule is derived by explicitly incorporating the a priori, a posteriori, and inter-frame correlation information into the likelihood ratio test (LRT). In the LRT, a compensation factor for the hypothesis of speech presence is used to regulate the trade-off between the probability of detection and the false alarm probability. Experimental results show the superiority of the VAD algorithm based on the proposed MAP criterion in comparison with that based on the recent conditional MAP criterion (CMAP) under various noise conditions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Proceedings
Pages5220-5223
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: 22 May 201127 May 2011

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period22/05/1127/05/11

Keywords

  • MAP criterion
  • Voice activity detection
  • hidden Markov model
  • likelihood ratio test

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