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Recent Developments, Challenges, and Future Scope of Voice Activity Detection Schemes—A Review

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Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies (ICTCS 2020)

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Voice Activity Detection (VAD) is a technique to classify speech signal into two parts as speech signal and background noises, and widely used in emerging speech recognition technologies such as mobile communication, high-quality multimedia transmission, forensic science, and voice recognition applications. As this technique is integral part of speech communication system, selection of precise VAD is the most challenging part in terms of complexity, feature extractions, threshold selection, and percentage of correctness. The researchers have generally classified VAD into supervised and unsupervised system and introduced various characteristics-based algorithm to reflect the occurrence of speech signal. However, a pervasive study is desired for the selection of appropriate techniques from predefined VAD along with the challenges and solutions to set the future research directions in the emerging area of voice recognition. Therefore, an extensive study is presented in this manuscript especially to set a tradeoff between obstacles and performance of earlier developed VAD. The authors believe that this review will be helpful to researchers working in the challenging speech processing and recognition domain.

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  1. Department of CSE, CT University, Ludhiana, India

    Shilpa Sharma

  2. Department of Computer Application, CT University, Ludhiana, India

    Punam Rattan

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, GNA University, Phagwara, India

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  2. Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China

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  3. IIS Deemed to be University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

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Sharma, S., Rattan, P., Sharma, A. (2021). Recent Developments, Challenges, and Future Scope of Voice Activity Detection Schemes—A Review. In: Kaiser, M.S., Xie, J., Rathore, V.S. (eds) Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies (ICTCS 2020). Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 190. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0882-7_39

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