• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2009

Speech enhancement methods can be generally classified into a few categories and they have been usually compared with each other in terms of speech quality. For the successful use of speech enhancement methods in speech recognition systems, performance comparisons in terms of speech recognition accuracy are necessary. In this paper, we compared the speech recognition performance of some of the representative speech enhancement algorithms which are popularly cited in the literature and used widely. We also compared the performance of speech enhancement methods with other noise robust speech recognition methods like PMC to verify the usefulness of speech enhancement approaches in noise robust speech recognition systems.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2017

These days voice models of speech recognition software are sophisticated enough to process the natural speech of people without any previous training. However, not much research has reported on the use of speech recognition tools in the field of pronunciation education. This paper examined Google speech recognition of a short English paragraph produced by Korean college students in clear and casual speech styles in order to diagnose and resolve students' pronunciation problems. Thirty three Korean college students participated in the recording of the English paragraph. The Google soundwriter was employed to collect data on the word recognition rates of the paragraph. Results showed that the total word recognition rate was 73% with a standard deviation of 11.5%. The word recognition rate of clear speech was around 77.3% while that of casual speech amounted to 68.7%. The reasons for the low recognition rate of casual speech were attributed to both individual pronunciation errors and the software itself as shown in its fricative recognition. Various distributions of unrecognized words were observed depending on each participant and proficiency groups. From the results, the author concludes that the speech recognition software is useful to diagnose each individual or group's pronunciation problems. Further studies on progressive improvements of learners' erroneous pronunciations would be desirable.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제23권3E호
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• pp.85-90
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• 2004

This paper presents two kinds of new approaches, one of which is concerned with recognition of emotional speech such as anger, happiness, normal, sadness, or surprise. The other is concerned with emotion recognition in speech. For the proposed speech recognition system handling human speech with emotional states, total nine kinds of prosodic features were first extracted and then given to prosodic identifier. In evaluation, the recognition results on emotional speech showed that the rates using proposed method increased more greatly than the existing speech recognizer. For recognition of emotion, on the other hands, four kinds of prosodic parameters such as pitch, energy, and their derivatives were proposed, that were then trained by discrete duration continuous hidden Markov models(DDCHMM) for recognition. In this approach, the emotional models were adapted by specific speaker's speech, using maximum a posteriori(MAP) estimation. In evaluation, the recognition results on emotional states showed that the rates on the vocal emotions gradually increased with an increase of adaptation sample number.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.83-88
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• 2002

대부분 음성 인식 시스템에서는 음성 신호에서 추출한 특징 파라미터를 입력 정보로 하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 숫자음 인식률을 높이기 위하여 음성 인식 시스템에 음성과 영상 정보를 동시에 이용할 수 있는 방법을 제안하였다. 실험을 통하여 음성정보만을 사용한 인식결과와 음성과 영상정보를 동시에 사용한 인식결과를 비교한 결과, 음성과 영상 정보를 동시에 입력했을 때 약 6%정도의 인식률의 증가를 가져옴을 알 수 있었다. 이를 통해 숫자음 인식을 위해 음성정보만을 사용하는 것보다 영상정보를 같이 사용하는 것이 더욱 효과적임을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Web Engineering
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.265-284
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• 2021

In this study, an automatic end-to-end speech recognition system based on hybrid CTC-attention network for Korean language is proposed. Deep neural network/hidden Markov model (DNN/HMM)-based speech recognition system has driven dramatic improvement in this area. However, it is difficult for non-experts to develop speech recognition for new applications. End-to-end approaches have simplified speech recognition system into a single-network architecture. These approaches can develop speech recognition system that does not require expert knowledge. In this paper, we propose hybrid CTC-attention network as end-to-end speech recognition model for Korean language. This model effectively utilizes a CTC objective function during attention model training. This approach improves the performance in terms of speech recognition accuracy as well as training speed. In most languages, end-to-end speech recognition uses characters as output labels. However, for Korean, character-based end-to-end speech recognition is not an efficient approach because Korean language has 11,172 possible numbers of characters. The number is relatively large compared to other languages. For example, English has 26 characters, and Japanese has 50 characters. To address this problem, we utilize Korean 49 graphemes as output labels. Experimental result shows 10.02% character error rate (CER) when 740 hours of Korean training data are used.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.101-107
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• 2011

음성인식의 실용화에 가장 저해되는 요소는 배경잡음과 채널에 의한 왜곡이다. 일반적으로 잡음은 음성인식 시스템의 성능을 저하시키고 이로 인해 사용 장소의 제약을 많이 받고 있다. DSR(Distributed Speech Recognition) 기반의 음성인식 역시 이 같은 문제로 성능 향상에 어려움을 겪고 있다. 이 논문은 잡음환경에서 DSR기반의 음성인식률 향상을 위해 정확한 음성구간을 검출하고, 잡음을 제거하여 잡음에 강인한 특징추출을 하도록 설계하였다. 제안된 방법은 엔트로피와 음성의 하모닉을 이용해 음성구간을 검출하며 멀티밴드 스펙트럼 차감법을 이용하여 잡음을 제거한다. 음성의 스펙트럼 에너지에 대한 엔트로피를 사용하여 음성검출을 하게 되면 비교적 높은 SNR 환경 (SNR 15dB) 에서는 성능이 우수하나 잡음환경의 변화에 따라 음성과 비음성의 문턱 값이 변화하여 낮은 SNR환경(SNR 0dB)에시는 정확한 음성 검출이 어렵다. 이 논문은 낮은 SNR 환경(0dB)에서도 정확한 음성을 검출할 수 있도록 음성의 스펙트럴 엔트로피와 하모닉 성분을 이용하였으며 정확한 음성 구간 검출에 따라 잡음을 제거하여 잡음에 강인한 특정을 추출하도록 하였다. 실험결과 잡음환경에 따른 인식조건에서 개선된 인식성능을 보였다.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제54호
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• pp.27-43
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• 2005

Existing standard speech coders can provide speech communication of high quality while they degrade the performance of speech recognition systems that use the reconstructed speech by the coders. The main cause of the degradation is that the spectral envelope parameters in speech coding are optimized to speech quality rather than to the performance of speech recognition. For example, mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) is generally known to provide better speech recognition performance than linear prediction coefficient (LPC) that is a typical parameter set in speech coding. In this paper, we propose a speech coder using MFCC instead of LPC to improve the performance of a server-based speech recognition system in network environments. However, the main drawback of using MFCC is to develop the efficient MFCC quantization with a low-bit rate. First, we explore the interframe correlation of MFCCs, which results in the predictive quantization of MFCC. Second, a safety-net scheme is proposed to make the MFCC-based speech coder robust to channel error. As a result, we propose a 8.7 kbps MFCC-based CELP coder. It is shown from a PESQ test that the proposed speech coder has a comparable speech quality to 8 kbps G.729 while it is shown that the performance of speech recognition using the proposed speech coder is better than that using G.729.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.586-591
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• 2008

본 논문은 음성을 사용한 인간의 감정 인식 시스템의 성능을 향상시키기 위하여 감정 변화에 강인한 음성 인식 시스템과 결합된 감정 인식 시스템에 관하여 연구하였다. 이를 위하여 우선 다양한 감정이 포함된 음성 데이터베이스를 사용하여 감정 변화가 음성 인식 시스템의 성능에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구와 감정 변화의 영향을 적게 받는 음성 인식 시스템을 구현하였다. 감정 인식은 음성 인식의 결과에 따라 입력 문장에 대한 각각의 감정 모델을 비교하여 입력 음성에 대한 최종감정 인식을 수행한다. 실험 결과에서 강인한 음성 인식 시스템은 음성 파라메터로 RASTA 멜 켑스트럼과 델타 켑스트럼을 사용하고 신호편의 제거 방법으로 CMS를 사용한 HMM 기반의 화자독립 단어 인식기를 사용하였다. 이러한 음성 인식기와 결합된 감정 인식을 수행한 결과 감정 인식기만을 사용한 경우보다 좋은 성능을 나타내었다.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.207-213
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• 2011

In this paper, we present a study on the real-time implementation of mobile robot to which the interactive voice recognition technique is applied. The speech command utters the sentential connected word and asserted through the wireless remote control system. We implement an automatic distance speech command recognition system for voice-enabled services interactively. We construct a baseline automatic speech command recognition system, where acoustic models are trained from speech utterances spoken by a microphone. In order to improve the performance of the baseline automatic speech recognition system, the acoustic models are adapted to adjust the spectral characteristics of speech according to different microphones and the environmental mismatches between cross talking and distance speech. We illustrate the performance of the developed speech recognition system by experiments. As a result, it is illustrated that the average rates of proposed speech recognition system shows about 95% above.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.22-29
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 모바일 환경에 따른 속삭임의 사용이 증가하는 데 따른 속삭임 인식을 위하여 음성인식에 많이 사용되고 있는 특징벡터들을 은닉 마코프 모델을 이용, 정상어 모델, 속삭임 모델, 정상어, 속삭임 통합 모델들에 인식 시험하고 결과를 분석하여 가장 적합한 인식 시스템을 찾으려고 하였다. 인식 시험을 통하여 속삭임의 인식은 정상어 모델로 인식하는 시스템은 낮은 인식률로 실용성이 없으며 속삭임 모델을 별도로 사용하는 것이 85%이상의 가장 높은 인식률을 보였다. 또한 '정상어+속삭임' 모델도 인식률은 조금 벌어지나 가능성을 확인할 수 있었다. 특징벡터로는 속삭임 모델을 사용하는 경우 MFCC 혹은 PLCC를 사용하는 것이 거의 유사하게 높은 인식률을 얻을 수 있었으나 '정상어+속삭임' 모델을 사용하는 경우 PLCC를 특징벡터로 사용하는 것이 속삭임 인식에서 가장 좋은 결과를 보였다.