Voice activity detection in nonstationary noise

A new fusion method for voice activity detection in additive nonstationary noise is suggested. A performance study of the methods: fusion, the geometrically adaptive energy level, periodicity measure, and zero crossings rates, is presented. The new method is shown to operate reliably down to -5 dB SNR.

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