A Comparative Study of Noise Effects, VAD, and ASR Methods in

Sapeha, Anastasiia; Kovan, Ibrahim; Rajanayagam, Subashkumar; Karpov, Kirill; Gering,, Maksim

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Proceedings of International Conference on Applied Innovation in IT · 2026/04/22 · Vol. 14 · Issue 2 · pp. 103–110

A Comparative Study of Noise Effects, VAD, and ASR Methods in

Anastasiia Sapeha, Ibrahim Kovan, Subashkumar Rajanayagam, Kirill Karpov, Maksim Gering,

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Abstract

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) deployed in real environments is strongly affected by background noise

Keywords

Speech Recognition Noise-Robust Speech Processing Voice Activity Detection Automatic Speech Recog-

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