Speech-Music Discrimination from MPEG-1 Bitstream

This paper describes a proposed algorithm for speech/music discrimination, which works on data directly taken from MPEG encoded bitstream thus avoiding the computationally difficult decoding-encoding process. The method is based on thresholding of features derived from the modulation envelope of the frequency-limited audio signal. The discriminator is tested on more than 2 hours of audio data, which contain clean and noisy speech from several speakers and a variety of music content. The discriminator is able to work in real time and despite its simplicity, results are very promising. Key-Words: audio, video, classification, speech, music, signal processing, MPEG