Voice Activity Detection Based on Nonlinear Processing Techniques

Abstract

Hilbert-Huang transform is developed in recent years dealing with nonlinear, non-stationary signal analysis of the complete local time-frequency method, recurrence plot method is a recursive nonlinear dynamic behavior of time series method of reconstruction. In this paper, Hilbert-Huang Transform empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and the recurrence plot (RP) method, a new voice activity detection algorithm. Firstly, through the speech and noise based on the empirical mode decomposition and multi-scale features of the different intrinsic mode function (IMF) on a time scale filtering and nonlinear dynamic behavior of the recurrence plot method, quantitative Recursive analysis of statistical uncertainty for endpoint detection. Simulation results show that the method has a strong non-steady-state dynamic analysis capabilities, in low SNR environment more accurately than the traditional method to extract the start and end point of the speech signal, robustness.