• 대한전기학회논문지
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• 제40권8호
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• pp.782-791
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• 1991

In the fields of pattern recognition such as speech recognition, several new techniques using Artifical Neural network Models have been proposed and implemented. In particular, the Multilayer Perception Model has been shown to be effective in static speech pattern recognition. But speech has dynamic or temporal characteristics and the most important point in implementing speech recognition systems using Artificial Neural Network Models for continuous speech is the learning of dynamic characteristics and the distributed cues and contextual effects that result from temporal characteristics. But Recurrent Multilayer Perceptron Model is known to be able to learn sequence of pattern. In this paper, the results of applying the Recurrent Model which has possibilities of learning tedmporal characteristics of speech to phoneme recognition is presented. The test data consist of 144 Vowel+ Consonant + Vowel speech chains made up of 4 Korean monothongs and 9 Korean plosive consonants. The input parameters of Artificial Neural Network model used are the FFT coefficients, residual error and zero crossing rates. The Baseline model showed a recognition rate of 91% for volwels and 71% for plosive consonants of one male speaker. We obtained better recognition rates from various other experiments compared to the existing multilayer perceptron model, thus showed the recurrent model to be better suited to speech recognition. And the possibility of using Recurrent Models for speech recognition was experimented by changing the configuration of this baseline model.

• 음성과학
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.115-126
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• 2007

There have been many research efforts to improve the performance of the speech recognizer in noisy conditions. Among them, the model compensation method and the speech enhancement approach have been used widely. In this paper, we propose to combine the two different approaches to further enhance the recognition rates in the noisy speech recognition. For the speech enhancement, the minimum mean square error-short time spectral amplitude (MMSE-STSA) has been adopted and the parallel model combination (PMC) and Jacobian adaptation (JA) have been used as the model compensation approaches. From the experimental results, we could find that the hybrid approach that applies the model compensation methods to the enhanced speech produce better results than just using only one of the two approaches.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.335-340
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• 2018

정확한 인식률을 보이고 있는 상업적인 음성인식 시스템은 화자종속 고립데이터로부터 학습 모델을 사용한다. 그러나 잡음 환경에서 데이터양에 따라 음성인식의 성능이 저하되는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 가우시안 분포에서 Maximum Log Likelihood를 이용한 벡터 양자화 기반 음성 인식 성능 향상을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 음성에 대한 특징을 가지고 벡터 양자화와 Maximum Log Likelihood 음성 특징 추출 방법을 이용하여 유사 음성에 대한 음성 인식의 정확성을 높이는 최적 학습 모델 구성 방법이다. 이를 위해 HMM을 기반으로 음성 특징을 추출하는 방법을 사용한다. 제안하는 방법을 사용하여 기존 시스템에서 생성되어 사용되는 음성 모델에 대한 부정확한 음성 모델에 대한 정확성을 향상시킬 수 있으므로 음성 인식에 강인한 모델을 구성할 수 있다. 제안하는 방법은 음성 인식 시스템에서 향상된 인식의 정확도를 보인다.

• 음성과학
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.247-257
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• 2004

There has been many research efforts to overcome the problems of speech recognition in the noisy conditions. Among them, the model-based compensation methods such as the parallel model combination (PMC) and vector Taylor series (VTS) have been found to perform efficiently compared with the previous speech enhancement methods or the feature-based approaches. In this paper, a data-driven model compensation approach that adapts the HMM(hidden Markv model) parameters for the noisy speech recognition is proposed. Instead of assuming some statistical approximations as in the conventional model-based methods such as the PMC, the statistics necessary for the HMM parameter adaptation is directly estimated by using the Baum-Welch algorithm. The proposed method has shown improved results compared with the PMC for the noisy speech recognition.

• 음성과학
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.75-84
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• 2006

Various methods have been proposed to overcome the problem of speech recognition in the noisy conditions. Among them, the model compensation methods like the parallel model combination (PMC) and Jacobian adaptation (JA) have been found to perform efficiently. The JA is quite effective when we have hidden Markov models (HMMs) already trained in a similar condition as the target environment. In a previous work, we have proposed an improved method for the JA to make it more robust against the changing environments in recognition. In this paper, we further improved its performance by compensating the delta-mean vectors and covariance matrices of the HMM and investigated its feasibility in the multi-model structure for the noisy speech recognition. From the experimental results, we could find that the proposed improved the robustness of the JA and the multi-model approach could be a viable solution in the noisy speech recognition.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제26권10호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2021

현재 대부분의 음성인식 오류 교정에 관한 연구는 영어를 기준으로 연구되어 한국어 음성인식에 대한 연구는 미비한 실정이다. 하지만 영어 음성인식에 비해 한국어 음성인식은 한국어의 언어적인 특성으로 인해 된소리, 연음 등의 발음이 있어, 비교적 많은 오류를 보이므로 한국어 음성인식에 대한 연구가 필요하다. 또한, 기존의 한국어 음성인식 연구는 주로 편집 거리 알고리즘과 음절 복원 규칙을 사용하기 때문에, 된소리와 연음의 오류 유형을 교정하기 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 된소리, 연음 등 발음으로 인한 한국어 음성인식 오류를 교정하기 위하여 LSTM을 기반으로 한 인공 신경망 모델 Sequence-to-Sequence와 Bahdanau Attention을 결합하는 문맥 기반 음성인식 후처리 모델을 제안한다. 실험 결과, 해당 모델을 사용함으로써 음성인식 성능은 된소리의 경우 64%에서 77%, 연음의 경우 74%에서 90%, 평균 69%에서 84%로 인식률이 향상되었다. 이를 바탕으로 음성인식을 기반으로 한 실제 응용 프로그램에도 본 연구에서 제안한 모델을 적용할 수 있다고 사료된다.

• 음성과학
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.55-65
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• 2008

Recently, the multi-model based speech recognizer has been used quite successfully for noisy speech recognition. For the selection of the reference HMM (hidden Markov model) which best matches the noise type and SNR (signal to noise ratio) of the input testing speech, the estimation of the SNR value using the VAD (voice activity detection) algorithm and the classification of the noise type based on the GMM (Gaussian mixture model) have been done separately in the multi-model framework. As the SNR estimation process is vulnerable to errors, we propose an efficient method which can classify simultaneously the SNR values and noise types. The KL (Kullback-Leibler) distance between the single Gaussian distributions for the noise signal during the training and testing is utilized for the classification. The recognition experiments have been done on the Aurora 2 database showing the usefulness of the model compensation method in the multi-model based speech recognizer. We could also see that further performance improvement was achievable by combining the probability density function of the MCT (multi-condition training) with that of the reference HMM compensated by the D-JA (data-driven Jacobian adaptation) in the multi-model based speech recognizer.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제51호
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• pp.151-165
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• 2004

For educational and research purposes, a Korean speech recognition platform is designed. It is based on an object-oriented architecture and can be easily modified so that researchers can readily evaluate the performance of a recognition algorithm of interest. This platform will save development time for many who are interested in speech recognition. The platform includes the following modules: Noise reduction, end-point detection, met-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) and perceptually linear prediction (PLP)-based feature extraction, hidden Markov model (HMM)-based acoustic modeling, n-gram language modeling, n-best search, and Korean language processing. The decoder of the platform can handle both lexical search trees for large vocabulary speech recognition and finite-state networks for small-to-medium vocabulary speech recognition. It performs word-dependent n-best search algorithm with a bigram language model in the first forward search stage and then extracts a word lattice and restores each lattice path with a trigram language model in the second stage.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.191-199
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 잡음 환경하의 음성 인식을 위해 전처리 단계에서 Mel-warped Wiener Filtering (MWF) 기법을 이용하여 입력 음성을 개선하고 후처리 단계에서 PMC (Parallel Model Combination) 기법을 이용하여 인식 모델을 보상하는 MWF-PMC잡음 처리 기법을 제안한다. PMC 기법은 전처리 단계에서 개선된 음성의 묵음 구간으로부터 잔류 잡음을 취하여 깨끗한 음성을 이용하여 작성한 인식 모델을 보상함으로써 잡음 환경하의 음성 인식 성능을 향상시킬 수 있다. 인식 실험을 위한 음성 데이터는 국어공학연구소 (KLE)에서 작성한 PBW (Phoneme Balanced Words) 452 단어 음성 데이터를 8 kHz로 다운 샘플링한 후 Subway, Car 및 Exhibition 잡음을 5단계의 신호 대 잡음비 (SNR)를 0, 5, 10, 15, 2003로 부가하여 구성하였다. 인식 실험 결과, 본 논문에서 제안한 MWF-PMC 기법이 기존의 결합된 기법보다 전반적으로 향상된 인식 성능을 얻어 그 유효성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.141-148
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• 2010

In this paper, voice activity detection (VAD) for dual-channel noisy speech recognition is proposed in which spatial cues are employed. In the proposed method, a probability model for speech presence/absence is constructed using spatial cues obtained from dual-channel input signal, and a speech activity interval is detected through this probability model. In particular, spatial cues are composed of interaural time differences and interaural level differences of dual-channel speech signals, and the probability model for speech presence/absence is based on a Gaussian kernel density. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed VAD method, speech recognition is performed for speech segments that only include speech intervals detected by the proposed VAD method. The performance of the proposed method is compared with those of several methods such as an SNR-based method, a direction of arrival (DOA) based method, and a phase vector based method. It is shown from the speech recognition experiments that the proposed method outperforms conventional methods by providing relative word error rates reductions of 11.68%, 41.92%, and 10.15% compared with SNR-based, DOA-based, and phase vector based method, respectively.