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Noise reduction and increased VAD accuracy using spectral subtraction

Faneuff et al., 2003

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3365487947916717433
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Faneuff J
Brown D
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Processing of the Global Signal Processing Exposition and International Signal Processing Conference (ISPC’03). Dallas, Texas

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This paper shows that performing voice activity detection (VAD) on the output of a spectral subtraction noised reduced signal increases the accuracy of the VAD and reduces the VAD sensitivity to fixed thresholds. An initial VAD decision is used to control the noise estimate …
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