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Zero-crossing rate
Rate which a signal changes from positive to negative or negative to positive. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The zero-crossing rate (ZCR) is the rate at which a signal changes from positive to zero to negative or from negative to zero to positive.[1] Its value has been widely used in both speech recognition and music information retrieval, being a key feature to classify percussive sounds.[2]
ZCR is defined formally as
where is a signal of length and is a sign function defined as:
In some cases only the "positive-going" or "negative-going" crossings are counted, rather than all the crossings, since between a pair of adjacent positive zero-crossings there must be a single negative zero-crossing.
For monophonic tonal signals, the zero-crossing rate can be used as a primitive pitch detection algorithm. Zero crossing rates are also used for Voice activity detection (VAD), which determines whether human speech is present in an audio segment or not.
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