Detection of Clipped Fragments in Speech Signals

Authors: Sergei Aleinik, Yuri Matveev

Abstract:

In this paper a novel method for the detection of  clipping in speech signals is described. It is shown that the new  method has better performance than known clipping detection  methods, is easy to implement, and is robust to changes in signal  amplitude, size of data, etc. Statistical simulation results are  presented.

 

Keywords: Clipping, clipped signal, speech signal processing.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1090920

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