• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.515-517
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 잡음 환경 하에서 남녀 성별인식이 가능한 신경회로망에 의한 화자종속 음성인식 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 음성인식 알고리즘은 남성화자 및 여성화자를 인식하기 위하여 LPC 켑스트럼 계수를 사용하여 신경회로망에 의하여 학습된다. 본 실험에서는 백색잡음 및 자동차잡음에 대하여 신경회로망의 네크워크에 대한 인식결과를 나타낸다. 인식실험의 결과로부터 백색잡음에 대해서는 최대 96% 이상의 인식률, 자동차잡음에 대해서는 최대 88% 이상의 인식률을 구하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.619-620
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 음성인식 알고리즘에 매우 중요한 정보를 제공하는 화자의 성별인식을 위하여 신경회로망을 사용하여 잡음 환경 하에서 남성음성 및 여성음성의 화자를 식별하는 성별인식 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 신경회로망은 MFCC의 계수를 사용하여 음성의 각 구간에서 남성음성 및 여성음성의 화자를 인식할 수 있는 알고리즘이다. 실험결과로부터 백색잡음이 중첩된 잡음환경 하에서 음성신호의 MFCC의 특징벡터를 사용함으로써 남성음성 및 여성음성의 화자에 대해서 양호한 성별인식 결과가 구해졌다.

• 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 Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.568-574
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• 2010

In an effort to improve the speech recognition rate, we investigated performance comparison between speaker-independent and gender-specific speech recognitions. For this purpose, 20 male and 20 female speakers each pronounced 300 isolated Korean words and the speeches were divided into 4 groups: female, male, and two mixed genders. To examine the validity for the gender-specific speech recognition, Fourier spectrum and MFCC feature vectors averaged over male and female speakers separately were examined. The result showed distinction between the two genders, which supports the motivation for the gender-specific speech recognition. In experiments of speech recognition rate, the error rate for the gender-specific case was shown to be less than50% compared to that of the speaker-independent case. From the obtained results, it might be suggested that hierarchical recognition of gender and speech recognition might yield better performance over the current method of speech recognition.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.775-780
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• 2013

This paper proposes a speaker-dependent speech recognition algorithm which can classify the gender for male and female speakers in white noise and car noise, using a neural network. The proposed speech recognition algorithm is trained by the neural network to recognize the gender for male and female speakers, using LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) cepstrum coefficients. In the experiment results, the maximal improvement of total speech recognition rate is 96% for white noise and 88% for car noise, respectively, after trained a total of six neural networks. Finally, the proposed speech recognition algorithm is compared with the results of a conventional speech recognition algorithm in the background noisy environment.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.10
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• pp.59-66
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• 2022

This research conducted a study classifying gender of speakers by analyzing feature vectors extracted from the voice data. The study provides convenience in automatically recognizing gender of customers without manual classification process when they request any service via voice such as phone call. Furthermore, it is significant that this study can analyze frequently requested services for each gender after gender classification using a learning model and offer customized recommendation services according to the analysis. Based on the voice data of males and females excluding blank spaces, the study extracts feature vectors from each data using MFCC(Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient) and utilizes SVM(Support Vector Machine) models to conduct machine learning. As a result of gender classification of voice data using a learning model, the gender recognition rate was 94%.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.755-759
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• 2009

The ability to recognize human emotion is one of the hallmarks of human-robot interaction. Especially, speaker-independent emotion recognition is a challenging issue for commercial use of speech emotion recognition systems. In general, speaker-independent systems show a lower accuracy rate compared with speaker-dependent systems, as emotional feature values depend on the speaker and his/her gender. Hence, this paper describes the realization of speaker-independent emotion recognition by rejection using confidence measure to make the emotion recognition system be homogeneous and accurate. From comparison of the proposed methods with conventional method, the improvement and effectiveness of proposed methods were clearly confirmed.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.43-51
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• 2023

In this paper, we propose an approach for dialect classification based on the speed and pause of speech utterances as well as the age and gender of the speakers. Dialect classification is one of the important techniques for speech analysis. For example, an accurate dialect classification model can potentially improve the performance of speaker or speech recognition. According to previous studies, research based on deep learning using Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) features has been the dominant approach. We focus on the acoustic differences between regions and conduct dialect classification based on the extracted features derived from the differences. In this paper, we propose an approach of extracting underexplored additional features, namely the speed and the pauses of speech utterances along with the metadata including the age and the gender of the speakers. Experimental results show that our proposed approach results in higher accuracy, especially with the speech rate feature, compared to the method only using the MFCC features. The accuracy improved from 91.02% to 97.02% compared to the previous method that only used MFCC features, by incorporating all the proposed features in this paper.