发明名称 Voice Activity Detection for Noise-Canceling Bioacoustic Sensor
摘要 A low overhead voice activity detection technique for a noise-canceling bioacoustic sensor consumes, as inputs, signals generated by a body microphone and an environment microphone and produces, as an output based on these inputs, an indication of whether voice activity is present. The technique applies a novel dual ANC configuration that produces, in addition to the normal noise reduction function, a signal composed of environmental sounds with body sounds attenuated and a signal composed of body sounds projected into the acoustic environment, primarily speech sounds. The technique then applies to these derived signals an algorithm based on the scientific observation that speech intensity, within limits, rises and falls to match environmental sound intensity to provide voice activity detection.
申请公布号 US2015262591(A1) 申请公布日期 2015.09.17
申请号 US201414215678 申请日期 2014.03.17
申请人 Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. 发明人 Hill Fredrick Norman
分类号 G10L25/78;G10L21/0208 主分类号 G10L25/78
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主权项 1. A voice activity detection method, comprising: acquiring a body channel signal and an environment channel signal; deriving from the body channel signal and the environment channel signal a filtered environment signal comprising environmental sounds with body sounds attenuated and a body acoustic signal comprising body sounds projected into an acoustic environment; setting a voice activity detection threshold based on the filtered environment signal; detecting whether voice activity is present based on a comparison of the body acoustic signal with the voice activity detection threshold; and outputting an indication of whether voice activity is present.
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