Methods for detecting impulsive noise in speech and audio signals

Computationally efficient methods for detecting non-Gaussian impulsive noise in digital speech and audio signals are presented. The aim of the detection is to find the errors without false detections in the case of e.g. percussive sounds in music signal or stop-consonants in speech signal. Various methods for computing a detection signal and a threshold curve are studied and tested. The detection can be applied in real time to a digital data stream.