Scientific Research and Essays

  • Abbreviation: Sci. Res. Essays
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1992-2248
  • DOI: 10.5897/SRE
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 2768

Full Length Research Paper

Real time noise-speech discrimination in time domain for speech recognition application

N. Mokhtar*, H. Arof, F. R. Mahamd Adikan and M. Mubin
Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 16 December 2010
  •  Published: 04 January 2011

Abstract

A simple noise-speech discrimination method in time domain is presented. The random signal noise characteristics were studied in time domain. Using the characteristics information, in real time processing, a simple algorithm to detect starting and ending point of speech samples in time domain is being demonstrated. Out of 100 attempts, about 94% of successful attempts of noise-speech discrimination have been obtained with white noise background by choosing the critical thresholds values.

 

Key words: Noise-speech discrimination, noisy signal, local mean.