• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.23-28
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• 1978

This paper describes a speech recognition system for ten isolated spoken digits. In this system, acoustic parameters such as zero crossing rate, log energy and three formant frequencies estimated by linear prediction method were extracted for classification and/or recognition purpose(s). The former two parameters were used for the classification of unvoiced consonants and the latter one for the recognition of vowels and voiced consonants. Promising recognition results were obtained in this experiment for ten digit utterances spoken by a male speaker.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.55-58
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 화자 확인 시스템의 등록과 확인 과정의 채널 환경 불일치로 성능이 저하되는 문제를 해결하기 위한 새로운 정규화 방법에 대해 설명한다. 제안된 방법은 첫째, 입력 음성으로부터 효과적으로 채널을 추정$\cdot$보상하고 둘째, 스코어 정규화 과정에서 사칭자 모델로서 사용되는 world모델과의 차이를 채널 추정 및 화자 모델 생성에 효과적으로 사용하는 것을 목표로 한다. 이를 위해 입력 음성의 켑스트럼과 HMM world 모델의 파라메터인 평균 켑스트럼과의 차이를 통해 음소열에 종속적인 채널 켑스트럼인 Phone-Dependent Difference Cepstrum을 추정한다. 한편 입력 음성의 음소열은 world모델의 스코어를 얻는 과정에서 함께 얻어질 수 있다. 채널 추정 실험 결과를 통해서 가장 일반적인 채널 정규화방법인 CMS에 의해 추정된 채널에 비해 실제 채널과 유사하며 화자 고유의 특성을 왜곡시키지 않는 채널 추정이 가능함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.87-95
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• 2010

In this paper, we address issues associated with mixed-lingual text-to-speech based on context-dependent HMMs, where there are multiple sets of HMMs corresponding to each individual language. In particular, we propose smoothing techniques of synthesis parameters at the boundaries between different languages to obtain more natural quality of speech. In other words, mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) at the language boundaries are smoothed by applying several linear and nonlinear approximation techniques. It is shown from an informal listening test that synthesized speech smoothed by a modified version of linear least square approximation (MLLSA) and a quadratic interpolation (QI) method is preferred than that without using any smoothing technique.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.70-75
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• 2001

This paper proposes a syllabic segmentation method for the korean continuous speech. This method are formed three major steps as follows. (1) labeling the vowel, consonants, silence units and forming the Token the sequence of speech data using the segmental parameter in the time domain, pitch, energy, ZCR and PVR. (2) scanning the Token in the structure of korean syllable using the parser designed by the finite state automata, and (3) re-segmenting the syllable parts witch have two or more syllables using the pseudo-syllable nucleus information. Experimental results for the capability evaluation toward the proposed method regarding to the continuous words and sentence units are 73.5％, 85.9％, respectively.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.512-520
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• 2010

As the applications based on Mobile and Ubiquitous becoming more extensive, the communication security issues of those applications are appearing to be the most important concern. Therefore, every part of the system should be thoroughly designed and mutually coordinated in order to support overall security of the system. In this paper. we propose new technique which uses the voice features in order to generate Mobile One Time Passwords(OTPs). Voice is considered to be one of the powerful personal authentication factors of biometrics and it can be used for generating variable passwords for one time use. Also we performed a simulation of homomorphic variability of voice feature points using dendrogram and distribution of voice feature points for proposed password generation method.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.293-296
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 다양한 멀티미디어 서비스를 위해 가변율 half rate 음성 부호화기를 설계하였다. 유, 무성음과 묵음의 구분을 위해 본 논문에서는 프레임 에너지와 음성 파라메터들을 이용한 효과적인 voicing 결정 알고리즘을 사용하였다. 유성음을 위한 half rate 음성 부호화기는 저속에서 좋은 특성을 보이는 generalized AbS구조를 이용하였다. LPC 계수는 LSP 계수로 변환한 후 predictive 2-stage VQ를 통해서 양자화하며, 여기 신호는 음질저하를 최소화하며 복잡도를 감소시킨 shift 방식의 대수적 고정 코드북 구조를 사용하고, 적응코드북과 여기코드북의 이득은 VQ로 양자화 하였다. 무성음을 위한 부호화기는 대부분이 유성음을 위한 부호화기와 동일하지만, 무성음에서는 피치간 상관도가 매우 낮으므로 피치 보간 방법을 사용하지 않고 개루프로 피치 lag를 찾은 후 전체 프레임에 사용한다. 1 kb/s 부호화기는 묵음 구간과 주변소음 구간에 사용되며 이 구간의 신호를 피치 성분이 미약한 주변소음들로 제한하고 이에 최적인 부음성 부호화기를 설계하였다. 최종적으로 완성된 가변율 half rate 부호화기는 voice activity factor(VAF)가 0.47인 시험음성에서 약 2.6 kb/s의 평균 전송률을 보였다. 주관적 음질 평가의 일환으로 IS-96 표준 코덱인 가변율 8 kb/s QCELP와 A-B preference 시험을 실시하였다. 시험 결과 평균전송률이 약 2배인 가변율 8 kb/s QCELP 보다 우수한 음질 성능을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.470-473
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• 2004

In this paper, the comparison of speech feature parameters for emotion recognition is studied for emotion recognition using speech signal. For this purpose, a corpus of emotional speech data recorded and classified according to the emotion using the subjective evaluation were used to make statical feature vectors such as average, standard deviation and maximum value of pitch and energy. MFCC parameters and their derivatives with or without cepstral mean subfraction are also used to evaluate the performance of the conventional pattern matching algorithms. Pitch and energy Parameters were used as a Prosodic information and MFCC Parameters were used as phonetic information. In this paper, In the Experiments, the vector quantization based emotion recognition system is used for speaker and context independent emotion recognition. Experimental results showed that vector quantization based emotion recognizer using MFCC parameters showed better performance than that using the Pitch and energy parameters. The vector quantization based emotion recognizer achieved recognition rates of 73.3％ for the speaker and context independent classification.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.13-16
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• 1999

이산 HMM을 이용한 음성인식을 할 때, 관측심볼은 훈련 데이터의 양자화과정을 수행하여 얻게 된다. 훈련 데이터는 선정된 몇몇 화자에 의해서 얻어지게 되는데, 이러한 이유로 인하여 충분하지 못한 훈련 데이터가 얻어지므로, 관측 심볼에 따라 출력확률분포값이 영(zero)이나, 거의 영에 가까운 값을 가지게 된다. 이러한 요인은 인식률의 저하를 초래하므로, 본 논문에서는 fuzzy smoothing 기법을 채택하여, 출력확률분포값이 영(zero)의 값을 가지는 것을 방지하여, 새로 구해진 파라메터로 인식실험을 하였다. Smoothing과정을 수행한 후의 인식률이 smoothing을 하진 않은 인식율에 비해 평균 $1.46\%$ 향상되었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.82-90
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• 2010

This paper proposes an efficient method to enhance the quality of synthesized speech in HMM based speech synthesis system. The proposed method trains spectral parameters and excitation signals using Gaussian mixture model, and estimates appropriate excitation signals from spectral parameters during the synthesis stage. Both WB-PESQ and MUSHRA results show that the proposed method provides better speech quality than conventional HMM based speech synthesis system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.4A
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• pp.451-463
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• 2000

In this paper, we design the radio data link protocols with QoS provisioning for mobile multimedia such as voice, data, and video in CDMA-based ATM networks, and analyze the performance of the data link protocols. To support mobile multimedia traffic, the required QoS parameters and the characteristics are analyzed, and wireless protocol stacks are proposed for integrating the wireless access network and ATM transport networks, and radio data link protocols are designed for provisioning QoS Control. The data link protocols are analyzed assuming that the system is supporting voice and data traffic simultaneously. In case of data traffic, the delay and throughput of SREJ ARQ and Type-1 Hybrid ARQ scheme are compared, and in case of voice traffic, the packet loss rate of BCH coding is analyzed according to the varying data traffic loads. The results indicate that the adaptive radio link protocols are efficient to support QoS requirements while the complexities are increased.