Copyright © 2006 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Regular Section -- Letters -- Fundamental Theories for Communications |
Applying Elliptical Basis Function Neural Networks to VAD for Wireless Communication Systems
The authors are with the Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. E-mail: sp2996{at}hanyang.ac.kr
Voice activity detection (VAD) determines whether a slice of waveform is voice or silence. The proposed VAD algorithm applying Elliptical Basis Function (EBF) neural networks uses k-means clustering and least mean square for the update algorithm. The error rates achieved by the EBF network have superior performance to those of G.729 Annex B and RBF.
Key Words: voice activity detection, neural network, elliptical basis function, linear prediction coefficients
Manuscript received July 30, 2005. Manuscript revised October 12, 2005.