4 General

3GPP46.082Release 17TSVoice Activity Detector (VAD) for Enhanced Full Rate (EFR) speech traffic channels

The function of the VAD is to indicate whether each 20 ms frame produced by the speech encoder contains speech or not. The output is a Boolean flag (vadflag) which is used by the Transmit (TX) DTX handler defined in GSM 06.81 [5].

The present document is organized as follows.

Clause 5 describes the principles of operation of the VAD. Clause 6 provides an overview of the computational description of the VAD. The computational details necessary for the fixed point implementation of the VAD algorithm are given in the form of ANSI C program contained in GSM 06.53 [2].

The verification of the VAD is based on the use of digital test sequences which are described in GSM 06.54 [3].