Hi all

I am trying to implement the energy threshold algorithm for voice activity detection and not getting meaningful values for energy for frames of size wL.

wL = 1784 // about 40 ms (
const double decay_constant = 0.90 // some optimal value between 0 and 1
double prevrms = 1.0 // avoid DivideByZero
double threshold = some optimal value after some experimentation

for (int i = 0; i < noSamples ; i += wL)
{
for (int j = 0; j < wL; j++)
{
// Exponential decay
total = total * decay_constant;
total += (audioSample[j] * audioSample[j]); // sum of squares
}

double mean = total / wL;
double rms = Math.Round(Math.Sqrt(mean),2); // root mean sqare
double prevrms = 1.0;

if(rms/prevrms > threshold)
{
// voice detected
}

prevrms = rms;
rms = 0.0;
}

Please advise what is wrong with the above implementation as rms computed for every frame is calculated as 0.19.

The other issue is speed as it took about 30 minutes to execute the above. Currently implemented as O(n2). Working with offline data so not a big deal as achieving a accuracy is the main objective ut any suggestions to improve efficiency would be highly appreciated.

Also, would you recommend using other factors like auto-correlation, zero-crossing rate or energy alone be sufficient.

Following is the summary of the WAV file (only considering clean conversational speech) i am using:

// WAV file information
Sampling Frequency: 44100 Bits Per Sample: 16
Channels: 2 nBlockAlign: 4 wavdata size: 557941248 bytes
Duration: 3162.932 sec Samples: 139485312 Time between samples: 0.0227 ms
Byte position at start of samples: 44 bytes (0x2C)

Chosen first sample to display: 1 (0.000 ms)
Chosen end sample to display: 1784 (40.431 ms)

16 bit max possible value is: 32767 (0x7FFF)
16 bit min possible value is: -32768 (0x8000)

Regards,

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