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In this paper, we investigate the effect of temporal context for speech/non-speech detection (SND). It is shown that even a simple feature such as full-band energy, when employed with a large-enough context, shows promise for further investigation. Experimental evaluations on the test data set, with a state-of-the-art multi-layer perceptron based SND system and a simple energy threshold based SND method, using the F-measure, show an absolute performance gain of 4.4% and 5.4% respectively. The optimal contextual length was found to be 1000 ms. Further numerical optimizations yield an improvement (3.37% absolute), resulting in an absolute gain of 7.77% and 8.77% over the MLP based and energy based methods respectively. ROC based performance evaluation also reveals promising performance for the proposed method, particularly in low SNR conditions.
Daniel Kuhn, Soroosh Shafieezadeh Abadeh, Bahar Taskesen
Riccardo Rattazzi, Francesco Riva, Brando Bellazzini, Marc Riembau Saperas