A method for detecting music in a speech signal having a plurality of frames. The method comprises defining a music threshold value for a first parameter extracted from a frame of the speech signal, defining a background noise threshold value for the first parameter, and defining an unsure threshold value for the first parameter. The unsure threshold value falls between the music threshold value and the background noise threshold value. If the first parameter falls between the music threshold value and the background noise threshold value, the speech signal is classified as music or background noise based on analyzing a plurality of first parameters extracted from the plurality of frames.