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This paper shows a fuzzy logic speech/non-speech discrimination method for improving the performance of speech processing systems working in noise environments. The fuzzy system is based on a Sugeno inference engine with membership functions defined as combination of two Gaussian functions. The rule base consists of ten fuzzy if then statements defined in terms of the denoised subband signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) and the zero crossing rates (ZCRs). Its operation is optimized by means of a hybrid training algorithm combining the least-squares method and the backpropagation gradient descent method for training membership function parameters. The experiments conducted on the Spanish SpeechDat-Car database shows that the proposed method yields clear improvements over a set of standardized VADs for discontinuous transmission (DTX) and distributed speech recognition (DSR) and also over recently published VAD methods.
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Culebras, R., Ramírez, J., Górriz, J.M., Segura, J.C. (2006). Fuzzy Logic Speech/Non-speech Discrimination for Noise Robust Speech Processing. In: Alexandrov, V.N., van Albada, G.D., Sloot, P.M.A., Dongarra, J. (eds) Computational Science – ICCS 2006. ICCS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3991. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11758501_55
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