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the b b biggest classification would be the speech and silence. So , by having an additional , uh , feature which says " this is speech and this is nonspeech " , I mean , it certainly helps in some unseen noise conditions for the neural net.
What  Do y do you have that feature available for the test data ?
Well , I mean , we have  we are transferring the VAD to the back - end  feature to the back - end. Because we are dropping it at the back - end after everything  all the features are computed.