• MALSORI
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• no.62
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• pp.33-49
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is 1) to investigate the phoneme inventories and phonological processes of cochlear implant(CI) children and 2) to describe their utterances using narrow phonetic transcription method. All ten subjects had more than 2 year-experience with CI and showed more than 85 % open-set sentence perception abilities. Average consonant accuracy was 81.36 % and it was improved up to 87.41% when distortion errors were not counted. They showed similar phonological processing patterns to HA or normal hearing children in some way as well as different phonological processing patterns from HA or normal hearing children. The prominent distortion error pattern was weakening of consonants. Every subject had his/her idiosyncratic error pattern that demanded his/her own individualized therapy program.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.49-55
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• 2018

This paper aims to describe a knowledge-based pronunciation generation system for French. It has been reported that a rule-based pronunciation generation system outperforms most of the data-driven ones for French; however, only a few related studies are available due to existing language barriers. We provide basic information about the French language from the point of view of the relationship between orthography and pronunciation, and then describe our knowledge-based pronunciation generation system, which consists of morphological analysis, Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging, grapheme-to-phoneme generation, and phone-to-phone generation. The evaluation results show that the word error rate of POS tagging, based on a sample of 1,000 sentences, is 10.70% and that of phoneme generation, using 130,883 entries, is 2.70%. This study is expected to contribute to the development and evaluation of speech synthesis or speech recognition systems for French.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.197-200
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a phoneme duration modeling in a speech recognition system based on disicion tree state tying. We assume that phone duration has a Gamma distribution. In a training mode, we model mean and variance of each state duration in context-independent phone model based on decision tree state tying. In a recognition mode, we get mean and variance of each context-dependent phone duration form state duration information obtaind during training mode. We make a comparative study of the proposed meth with conventinal methods. Our method results in good performance compared with conventional methods.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.86-94
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• 1989

In this paper the method using a sign pattern( +,- ) of Mel-cepstrum coefficients as a new speech representation is proposed. Relatively stable patterns can be obtained for speech signals which has strong stationarity like vowels and nasals, and the phonemic difference according to the individuality of speakers can be absorbed without affecting characteristics of the phoneme. In this paper we show that the reduction of recognition procedure of phonemes and training procedure of phoneme models can be achieved through the representation of Korean phonemes using such a sign pattern.

• MALSORI
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• no.57
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• pp.99-112
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• 2006

In this paper, we introduce two retrieval methods for photos with speech documents. We compare the pattern of speech query with those of speech documents recorded in digital cameras, and measure the similarities, and retrieve photos corresponding to the speech documents which have high similarity scores. As the first approach, a phoneme recognition scheme is used as the pre-processor for the pattern matching, and in the second one, the vector quantization (VQ) and the dynamic time warping (DTW) are applied to match the speech query with the documents in signal domain itself. Experimental results show that the performance of the first approach is highly dependent on that of phoneme recognition while the processing time is short. The second method provides a great improvement of performance. While the processing time is longer than that of the first method due to DTW, but we can reduce it by taking approximated methods.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.195-202
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• 2001

In this paper, we show a study on how to model a phoneme of which acoustic feature is changed according to both left-hand and right-hand phonemes. For this purpose, we make a comparative study on two kinds of algorithms; a unit reduction algorithm and decision tree modeling. The unit reduction algorithm uses only statistical information while the decision tree modeling uses statistical information and Korean acoustical information simultaneously. Especially, we focus on how to model context-dependent phonemes based on decision tree modeling. Finally, we show the recognition rate when context-dependent phonemes are obtained by the decision tree modeling.

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1997 no.05
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• pp.257-260
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• 1997

In this paper, we studied about the EMG of sternohyoid muscle(SH) during articulation. we selected /ki/ as the word that use subaxial a little, and /pa/, /pan/ as the word that use subaxial very much. The subjects were 4 persons with normal larynx. We indicated them to unify the amplitude of SH EMG during /ki/, /pa/, /pan/ phonation, and measured the amplitude of SH EMG between a phoneme and a phoneme.3 At the results, we found that the subjects can not control to unify the amplitude of EMG during articulation.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.175-179
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• 2003

In order to produce a high quality (intelligibility and naturalness) synthesized speech, it is very important to get an accurate grapheme-to-phoneme conversion and prosody model. In this paper, we analyzed Chinese texts using a segmentation, POS tagging and unknown word recognition. We present a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion using a dictionary-based and rule-based method. We constructed a prosody model using a probabilistic method and a decision tree-based error correction method. According to the result from the above analysis, we can successfully select and concatenate exact synthesis unit of syllables from the Chinese Synthesis DB.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.70-73
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 한국어에 대한 실시간 음소 인식을 통한 Lip Synch 구현에 필수요소인 Viseme(Visual Phoneme)을 한국어의 음운학적 접근 방법을 통해 제시하고, Lip Synch에서 입술의 모양에 결정적인 영향을 미치는 모음에 대한 모음 인식 실험 및 결과 분석을 한다.모음인식 실험에서는 한국어 음소 51개 각각에 대해 3개의 State로 이루어진 CHMM (Continilous Hidden Makov Model)으로 모델링하고, 각각의 음소가 병렬로 연결되어진 음소네트워크를 사용한다. 입력된 음성은 12차 MFCC로 특징을 추출하고, Viterbi 알고리즘을 인식 알고리즘으로 사용했으며, 인식과정에서 Bigrim 문법과 유사한 구조의 음소배열 규칙을 사용해서 인식률과 인식 속도를 향상시켰다.

• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.3-10
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• 1991

The teach pendant and keyboard have been used as an input device of control command in human-robot sustem. But, many problems occur in case that the usef is a novice. So, speech recognition system is required to communicate between a human and the robot. In this study, Korean voice commands, eitht robot commands, and ten digits based on the broad phonetic analysis are described. Applying broad phonetic analysis, phonemes of voice commands are divided into phoneme groups, such as plosive, fricative, affricative, nasal, and glide sound, having similar features. And then, the feature parameters and their ranges to detect phoneme groups are found by minimax method. Classification rules are consisted of combination of the feature parameters, such as zero corssing rate(ZCR), log engery(LE), up and down(UD), formant frequency, and their ranges. Voice commands were recognized by the classification rules. The recognition rate was over 90 percent in this experiment. Also, this experiment showed that the recognition rate about digits was better than that about robot commands.