EUROSPEECH 2003 - INTERSPEECH 2003
8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Geneva, Switzerland
September 1-4, 2003

         

Modulation Spectrum for Pitch and Speech Pause Detection

Olaf Schreiner

DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany

This paper describes a new approach to the speech pause detection problem. The goal is to safely decide for a given signal frame whether speech is present or not in order to switch an automatic speech recognizer on or off. The modulation spectrum is introduced as a method to determine the amount of voicing in a signal frame. This method is tested against two standard methods in pitch detection.

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Bibliographic reference.  Schreiner, Olaf (2003): "Modulation spectrum for pitch and speech pause detection", In EUROSPEECH-2003, 2849-2852.