SG-VAD: Stochastic Gates Based Speech Activity Detection

10/28/2022
by   Jonathan Svirsky, et al.
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We propose a novel voice activity detection (VAD) model in a low-resource environment. Our key idea is to model VAD as a denoising task, and construct a network that is designed to identify nuisance features for a speech classification task. We train the model to simultaneously identify irrelevant features while predicting the type of speech event. Our model contains only 7.8K parameters, outperforms the previously proposed methods on the AVA-Speech evaluation set, and provides comparative results on the HAVIC dataset. We present its architecture, experimental results, and ablation study on the model's components. We publish the code and the models here https://www.github.com/jsvir/vad.

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