Comparison of voice activity detection algorithms for VoIP

R. Venkatesha Prasad1, A. Sangwan2, H.S. Jamadagni1, M.C. Chiranth2, R. Sah2, V. Gaurav2
1C. E. D. T. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
2Department of E&C, PESIT, Bangalore, India

Tóm tắt

We discuss techniques for voice activity detection (VAD) for voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). VAD aids in saving the bandwidth requirement of a voice session, thereby increasing the bandwidth efficiently. We compare the quality of speech, level of compression and computational complexity for three time-domain and three frequency-domain VAD algorithms. Implementation of time-domain algorithms is computationally simple. However, better speech quality is obtained with the frequency-domain algorithms. A comparison of the merits and demerits along with the subjective quality of speech after removal of silence periods is presented for all the algorithms. A quantitative measurement of speech quality for different algorithms is also presented.

Từ khóa

#Detection algorithms #Internet telephony #Speech #Payloads #Bandwidth #Throughput #Communication switching #Resource management #Costs #Circuits

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