• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.887-890
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 켑스트럼 계수의 변화에 따른 남성화자와 여성화자의 음향학적인 특징벡터를 비교하여 분석하는 기초적인 연구를 수행한다. 특히 FFT 켑스트럼 및 LPC 켑스트럼에 대한 남녀의 음향학적인 특징벡터의 차이점을 나타낸다. 향후 이러한 차이점을 기초로 하여 신경회로망 등에 의한 성별 인식에 대한 연구를 수행함으로써 남성화자 및 여성화자를 분리할 수 있는 근거를 마련하는 기초연구이다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.78-82
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• 1999

This paper is a study on weighted cepstrum used broadly for robust speech recognition. Especially, we propose the weighted function of asymmetric glottal pulse shape. which is used for weighted cepstrum extracted by PLP(Perceptual Linear Predictive) based on auditory model. Also, we analyze this glottal weighted cepstrum from the glottal pulse of glottal model in connection with the cepstrum. And we obtain speech features analyzed by both the glottal model and the auditory model. The isolated-word recognition rate is adopted for the test of proposed method in the car moise and street environment. And the performance of glottal weighted cepstrum is compared with both that of weighted cepstrum extracted by LP(Linear Prediction) and that of weighted cepstrum extracted by PLP. The result of computer simulation shows that recognition rate of the proposed glottal weighted cepstrum is better than those of other weighted cepstrums.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.2521-2526
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• 2011

This paper proposes a speaker recognition algorithm using a perceptron neural network and LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) cepstrum coefficients. The proposed algorithm first detects the voiced sections at each frame. Then, the LPC cepstrum coefficients which have speaker characteristics are obtained by the linear predictive analysis for the detected voiced sections. To classify the obtained LPC cepstrum coefficients, a neural network is trained using the LPC cepstrum coefficients. In this experiment, the performance of the proposed algorithm was evaluated using the speech recognition rates based on the LPC cepstrum coefficients and the neural network.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.61-74
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• 2004

In this paper, a contort- and speaker-dependent cepstrum extraction method and a channel normalization method for minimizing the loss of speaker characteristics in the cepstrum were proposed for a robust speaker recognition system over the channel. The proposed extraction method creates a cepstrum based on the pitch synchronous analysis using the inherent pitch of the speaker. Therefore, the cepstrum called the 〃pitch synchronous cepstrum〃 (PSC) represents the impulse response of the vocal tract more accurately in voiced speech. And the PSC can compensate for channel distortion because the pitch is more robust in a channel environment than the spectrum of speech. And the proposed channel normalization method, the 〃formant-broadened pitch synchronous CMS〃 (FBPSCMS), applies the Formant-Broadened CMS to the PSC and improves the accuracy of the intraframe processing. We compared the text-independent closed-set speaker identification on 56 females and 112 males using TIMIT and NTIMIT database, respectively. The results show that pitch synchronous km improves the error reduction rate by up to 7.7% in comparison with conventional short-time cepstrum and the error rates of the FBPSCMS are more stable and lower than those of pole-filtered CMS.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.63-65
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 입력된 음성이 남성화자인지 여성화자인지를 구분하는 FFT 스펙트럼 및 LPC 켑스트럼 입력에 의한 성별인식 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 특히 남성화자와 여성화자의 특징벡터를 비교 분석하여, 이러한 남녀의 음향학적인 특징벡터의 차이점을 이용하여 신경회로망에 의한 성별 인식에 대한 실험을 수행한다. 특히 12차의 LPC 켑스트럼 및 8차의 저역 FFT 스펙트럼의 특징벡터를 사용한 경우에, 남성화자 및 여성화자에 대해서 양호한 남녀 성별인식률이 구해졌다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.681-686
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• 2012

This paper studied the speech parameters less affected by the human emotion for the development of the robust emotional speech recognition system. For this purpose, the effect of emotion on the speech recognition system and robust speech parameters of speech recognition system were studied using speech database containing various emotions. In this study, mel-cepstral coefficient, delta-cepstral coefficient, RASTA mel-cepstral coefficient, root-cepstral coefficient, PLP coefficient and frequency warped mel-cepstral coefficient in the vocal tract length normalization method were used as feature parameters. And CMS (Cepstral Mean Subtraction) and SBR(Signal Bias Removal) method were used as a signal bias removal technique. Experimental results showed that the HMM based speaker independent word recognizer using frequency warped RASTA mel-cepstral coefficient in the vocal tract length normalized method, its derivatives and CMS as a signal bias removal showed the best performance.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1992.06a
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• pp.54-57
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• 1992

음성합성에 있어서 음의 자연성을 합성시키는 문제는 크게 두가지로 나누어진다. 첫째는 합성음을 원음에 가깝게 구현하려는 합성방법 자체의 문제로, 언어 합성이 가지고 있는 일반적인 문제이다. 또 다른 문제는 운율에 관한 것으로 낱말 또는 문장 내에서의 운율에 따라 합성음의 자연성이 좌우된다. 이러한 운율에 따라 합성음의 자연성이 좌우된다. 이러한 운율의 조절에는 지속시간, 피치, 그리고 음의 세기 등이 이용된다. 켑스트럼을 이용하여 분석합성을 하는 경우, pole-zero 모델로 스펙트럼 포락을 근사하므로 원음에 충실하고, 필터계수와 구동정보를 분리하여 분석, 합성하므로 인위적인 운율의 조절이 용이하여 음성합성이 가지는 위의 두가지 문제를 해결하는데 적합하다고 판단된다. 본 연구에서는 켑스트럼을 이용하여 분석합성 시스템을 구성하였다. 음성 합성 과정에서, 운율 조절 파라미터중의 하나인 피치 주기의 변경에 따라 스펙트럼 포락의 왜곡에 대해 살펴보고, 왜곡을 최소화하는 방안을 제안한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.42-49
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 전화망 환경에서 음성 인식 성능을 개선하기 위한 특징 벡터 추출 단계에서의 처리 방법들을 연구하였다. 먼저, 고립 단어 인식 시스템에서 채널 왜곡 보상 방 법들을 단어 모델과 문맥 독립 음소 모델에 대하여 인식 실험을 하였다. 켑스트럼 평균 차 감법, RASTA 처리, 켑스트럼-시간 행렬을 실험하였으며, 인식 모델에 따른 각 알고리즘의 성능을 비교하였다. 둘째로, 문맥 독립 음소 모델을 이용한 인식 시스템의 성능 향상을 위하 여 정적 특징 벡터에 대하여 주성분 분석 방법(principal component analysis)과 선형 판별 분석(linear discriminant analysis)과 같은 선형 변환 방법을 적용하여 분별력이 높은 벡터 공간으로 변환함으로써 인식 성능을 향상시켰다. 또한 선형 변환 방법을 켑스트럼 평균 차 감법과 결합하여 더욱 뛰어난 성능을 보여주었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.1370-1376
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• 2012

This paper proposes a gender recognition algorithm which classifies a male or female speaker. In this paper, characteristic vectors for the male and female speaker are analyzed, and recognition experiments for the proposed gender recognition by a neural network are performed using these characteristic vectors for the male and female. Input characteristic vectors of the proposed neural network are 10 LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) cepstrum coefficients, 12 LPC cepstrum coefficients, 12 FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) cepstrum coefficients and 1 RMS (Root Mean Square), and 12 LPC cepstrum coefficients and 8 FFT spectrum. The proposed neural network trained by 20-20-2 network are especially used in this experiment, using 12 LPC cepstrum coefficients and 8 FFT spectrum. From the experiment results, the average recognition rates obtained by the gender recognition algorithm is 99.8% for the male speaker and 96.5% for the female speaker.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.48-53
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• 2001

In speaker verification based on LPC analysis the prediction residues are ignored and LPCC(LPC cepstrum) are only used to compose feature vectors. In this study, LPCC and RCEP (residual cepstrum) extracted from residues are used as feature parameters in the various environmental speaker verification. We propose the weighting function which can enlarge inter-speaker variation by weighting pitch, speaker inherent vector, included in residual cepstrum. Simulation results show that the average speaker verification rate is improved in the rate of 6％ with RCEP and LPCC at the same time and is improved in the rate of 2.45% with the proposed weighted RCEP and LPCC at the same time compared with no weighting.