• 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.15 no.5
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• pp.61-64
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• 1996

To improve the performance of a recognition system, namely the recognition rate, we propose a hew implementation of perceptual distance using LPC cepstrum(perceptual cepstrum, PLC). The PLC is caculated by convolution of a usual LPC cepstrum and a perceptual lifter(PL). To caculate PL, we define a new weighting function in the linear frequency domain considering the frequency scale(Bark-scale) characteristics. The PL is the inverse Fourier transform of the exponents of the weighting function. We verified our method through the speech recognition experiments. The performance of PLC was compared with that of the rasied sine liftering method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.1140-1148
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• 1994

In this paper, we carried out some experiments on the Korean vowel recognition using the fractal dimension of the speech signals. We chose the Minkowski-Bouligand dimension as the fractal dimension, and computed it using the morphological covering method. For our experiments, we used both the fractal dimension and the LPC cepstrum which is conventionally known to be one of the best parameters for speech recognition, and examined the usefulness of the fractal dimension. From the vowel recognition experiments under various consonant contexts, we achieved the vowel recognition error rates of 5.6% and 3.2% for the case with only LPC cepstrum and that with both LPC cepstrum and the fractal dimension, respectively. The results indicate that the incorporation of the fractal dimension with LPC cepstrum gives more than 40% reduction in recognition errors, and indicates that the fractal dimension is a useful feature parameter for speech recognition.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.2
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• pp.57-66
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• 1997

This paper studies the effects of the method, CMS(Cepstral Mean Subtraction), (which compensates for some of the speech distortion. caused by telephone channels), on the performance of the text-dependent speaker identification system. This system is based on the VQ(Vector Quantization) and HMM(Hidden Markov Model) method and chooses the LPC-Cepstrum and Mel-Cepstrum as the feature vectors extracted from the speech data transmitted through telephone channels. Accordingly, we can compare the correct recognition rates of the speaker identification system between the use of LPC-Cepstrum and Mel-Cepstrum. Finally, from the experiment results table, it is found that the Mel-Cepstrum parameter is proven to be superior to the LPC-Cepstrum and that recognition performance improves by about 10% when compensating for telephone channel using the CMS.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.06c
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• pp.364-367
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• 1994

In this paper, we carried out some experiments on the Korean vowel recognition using the fractal dimension of the speech signals. We chose the Mincowski-Bouligand dimensioni as the fractal dimension, and computed it using the morphological covering method. For our experiments, we used both the fractal dimension and the LPC cepstrum which is conventionally known to be one of the best parameters for speech recognition, and examined the usefulness of the fractal dimension. From the vowel recognition experiments under various consonant contexts, we achieved the vowel recognition error rats of 5.6% and 3.2% for the case with only LPC cepstrum and that with both LPC cepstrum and the fractal dimension, respectively. The results indicate that the incorporation of the fractal dimension with LPC cepstrum gies more than 40% reduction in recognition errors, and indicates that the fractal dimension is a useful feature parameter for speech recognition.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1987.11a
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• pp.70-74
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• 1987

본 논문은 화자독립 고립단어 인식에 있어서 LP 모델의 문제점과 그 해결 방안으로서 cepstrum 영역에 있어서 lifter를 이용한 해결에 대해서 고찰하였다. 한편, 각 인식 단어의 기준 패턴을 구하기 위한 방법으로서 집단화의 방법에 대해 논하였다. 집단화의 방법으로서는 UWA 방법과 K-iteration 방법을 변형시킨 KMA 방법을 제시 비교하였다. 인식 실험결과 정현파 lifter와 KMA의 집단화 방법을 사용하였을 때 95%의 최고 인식률을 보였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.52-60
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• 1991

This paper describes the study on isolated word recognition by using DHMM(Dynamic Hidden Markov Model) which has dynamic feature of spectrum as a parameter. This paper discusses speech recognition experiment basedon HMM which can evaluate not only instantaneous spectral features but also dynamic spectral features. LPC cepstrum parameters is used as a static feature and LPC cepstrum's regression coefficient is used as a dynamic feature. These two features are quantized by each VQ codebook. DHMM is modeled by receiving static vector and dynamic vector by input. In the whole experiment, as recognition experiment using DHMM shows 92.7% of recognition rate while the experiment using conventional HMM shows 88.8% of recognition rate, DHMM proved to be a useful model.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.833-836
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 한국어 음성인식 시스템의 성능 향상을 위해 청각 주파수 분해능을 가진 MEL-LPC Cepstrum을 음소단위의 HMM(Hidden Markov Model)을 기반으로 하는 인식 시스템에 적용하여 그 결과를 비교 검토하였다. 선형예측(LP) 분석 후에 후처리로서 주파수를 왜곡시킨 LPC-MEL 분석이 계산량이 적고 효과적이라 일반적으로 많이 사용되고 있으나 주파수 분해능은 많이 개선되지 않는다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 주파수 분해능을 개선하기 위해, 원 음성신호로부터 직접적으로 멜주파수로 왜곡시킨 후 선형 예측 분석을 수행하는 MEL-LPC 분석방법을 이용한 음소기반의 화자 독립 음성인식 시스템을 구성하여 기존의 LPC-MEL 분석방법과 비교실험을 통하여 MEL-LPC 분석방법의 유효성을 검토하였다. 실험에 사용한 음성 데이터베이스는 음소 및 단어 인식실험에서는 ETRI 445단어 DB, 연속 숫자음인식 실험에서는 KLE 4연속 숫자음 DB를 사용하였다. 화자 독립 음소인식 실험의 경우, 묵음을 제외한 47개의 유사 음소에 대하여 4상태 3출력의 Left-to-Right 모델을이용하였다. 단어 및 연속 숫자음 인식 실험의 경우, 유한상태 네트워크에 의한 OPDP법을 이용하였다. 화자 독립 음소, 단어 및 4연속 숫자음 인식 실험결과, 기존의 LPC-MEL Cepstrum을 사용한 경우보다 MEL-LPC Cepstum을 사용한 경우가 더 높은 인식률을 나타내어 한국어 음성인식 시스템에서 MEL-LPC 분석방법의 유효성을 확인할 수 있었다.