Method and apparatus to detect and delimit foreground speech
CA 2250649 A1 · Owner: Peters, Stephen Douglas · Inventors: Boies, Daniel; Peters, Stephen Douglas
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The present invention provides improved foreground-speech signal endpointing by computing a spectral stationarity statistic. This statistic is used by a finite state machine to endpoint speech. Endpointing using the spectral stationarity statistic is less susceptible to background noise than endpointing using conventional measures. The present invention uses frame-synchronous quantile estimation to generate a mask signal for signal to Noise Ratio Normalization.
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- Filed October 20, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 20, 2018.
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