The Concept of Task Specific Speech Database for VAD Systems

Author

Kacur, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Telecommun., FEI STU, Bratislava

fYear

2006

fDate

38869

Firstpage

155

Lastpage

158

Abstract

The aim of this article is to present a concept of small size, low cost, and stile flexible speech database especially designed for the pin-poses of construction and evaluation of voice activity detection systems. As an example of the concept the Slovak speech database for VAD systems is introduced. It covers wide range of SNR ratios that can be automatically adjusted, according to both general and particular applications. It consists of specially selected isolated words with time labeled occurrences which keeps its size small while enabling its automatic handling. The evaluation of the database was performed by 2 VAD algorithms and compared to the SPEECON database (Spanish version). Observed outcomes fully justify its design and encourage its use for the development and evaluation of high performance VAD systems

Keywords

audio databases; performance evaluation; signal detection; speech processing; Slovak speech database; VAD system; performance evaluation; voice activity detection system; Costs; Databases; Detection algorithms; Electronic mail; Signal processing algorithms; Speech analysis; Speech enhancement; Speech processing; Speech recognition; Testing; Speech database; VAD systems; speech recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications, 48th International Symposium ELMAR-2006 focused on

Conference_Location

Zadar

ISSN

1334-2630

Print_ISBN

953-7044-03-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ELMAR.2006.329539

Filename

4127511