• 음성과학
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.55-68
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• 1998

In this paper, a novel method of noise reduction of speech based on a complex adaptive noise canceler and method of optimal feature extraction are proposed. This complex adaptive noise canceler needs simply the noise detection, and LMS algorithm used to calculate the adaptive filter coefficient. The method of optimal feature extraction requires the variance of noise. The experimental results have shown that the proposed method effectively reduced noise in noisy speech. Optimal feature extraction has shown similar characteristics in noise-free speech.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2011년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회논문집 Vol.38 No.1(A)
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• pp.255-258
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• 2011

An application of Gammatone auditory filterbank for emotion recognition from speech is described in this paper. Gammatone filterbank is a bank of Gammatone filters which are used as a preprocessing stage before applying feature extraction methods to get the most relevant features for emotion recognition from speech. In the feature extraction step, the energy value of output signal of each filter is computed and combined with other of all filters to produce a feature vector for the learning step. A feature vector is estimated in a short time period of input speech signal to take the advantage of dependence on time domain. Finally, in the learning step, Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is used to create a model for each emotion class and recognize a particular input emotional speech. In the experiment, feature extraction based on Gammatone filterbank (GTF) shows the better outcomes in comparison with features based on Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) which is a well-known feature extraction for speech recognition as well as emotion recognition from speech.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.209-212
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• 2003

In this paper, we proposed new speech feature parameter through parts-based feature extraction of speech spectrum using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF). NMF can effectively reduce dimension for multi-dimensional data through matrix factorization under the non-negativity constraints, and dimensionally reduced data should be presented parts-based features of input data. For speech feature extraction, we applied Mel-scaled filter bank outputs to inputs of NMF, than used outputs of NMF for inputs of speech recognizer. From recognition experiment result, we could confirm that proposed feature parameter is superior in recognition performance than mel frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) that is used generally.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.11-16
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• 2013

This paper proposes robust feature extraction for accurate voice activity detection (VAD). VAD is one of the principal modules for speech signal processing such as speech codec, speech enhancement, and speech recognition. Noisy environments contain nonstationary noises causing the accuracy of the VAD to drastically decline because the fluctuation of features in the noise intervals results in increased false alarm rates. In this paper, in order to improve the VAD performance, harmonic-weighted energy is proposed. This feature extraction method focuses on voiced speech intervals and weighted harmonic-to-noise ratios to determine the amount of the harmonicity to frame energy. For performance evaluation, the receiver operating characteristic curves and equal error rate are measured.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.100-108
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• 2013

In this paper, a feature extraction (FE) method is proposed that is comparable to the traditional FE methods used in automatic speech recognition systems. Unlike the conventional spectral-based FE methods, the proposed method evaluates the similarities between an embedded speech signal and a set of predefined speech attractor models in the reconstructed phase space (RPS) domain. In the first step, a set of Gaussian mixture models is trained to represent the speech attractors in the RPS. Next, for a new input speech frame, a posterior-probability-based feature vector is evaluated, which represents the similarity between the embedded frame and the learned speech attractors. We conduct experiments for a speech recognition task utilizing a toolkit based on hidden Markov models, over FARSDAT, a well-known Persian speech corpus. Through the proposed FE method, we gain 3.11% absolute phoneme error rate improvement in comparison to the baseline system, which exploits the mel-frequency cepstral coefficient FE method.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.598-603
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 주파수 부대역마다 최적의 특징추출을 위해서, 음성인식률을 기준으로 최적의 방법을 선택한다. 다중대역 음성인식 접근을 사용하여 각기 다른 주파수 영역에서 특징벡터를 독립적으로 추출함으로써 부대역별로 다른 특징추출 방법을 적용할 수 있었다. 저주파 대역의 음성은 비교적 스펙트럼의 구조가 명확하므로 전극모델을 사용하는 것이 효과적이었고, 고주파 대역에서는 비모수적인 변환방법인 이산 코사인 변환을 사용한 켑스트럼이 효과적이었다. 부대역별로 효과적인 특징추출 방법을 사용함으로써, 각 주파수 부대역에 포함된 음성인식을 위한 언어정보를 보다 효과적으로 추출할 수 있었다. 음성인식 실험결과, 제안한 방법은 전대역 특징추출보다 우수한 성능을 나타내었다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.79-85
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• 2013

CASA 시스템의 특징 추출은 시간의 연속성과 채널 간 유사성을 이용하여 청각 요소의 상관지도를 구성하여 사용한다. 채널 간 유사성을 교차 상관 계수를 이용하여 특징 추출 할 경우 상관성을 정량적으로 나타내기 위해 계산량이 많은 단점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 특징 추출 시 계산 량을 줄이기 위한 방법으로 비모수적 상관 계수를 이용한 특징 추출 방법을 제안하고 이를 CASA 시스템을 통하여 목적 음성을 분리하는 실험을 수행하였다. 목적 음성의 분리 성능을 평가하기 위하여 신호 대 잡음비를 측정한 결과, 제안 방식이 기존 방식에 비해 평균 0.14 dB의 미세한 성능 개선을 보였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제17권2E호
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• pp.31-37
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• 1998

This paper proposes a feature extraction method using wavelet transform for speech recognition. Speech recognition system generally carries out the recognition task based on speech features which are usually obtained via time-frequency representations such as Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) and Linear Predictive Coding(LPC). In some respects these methods may not be suitable for representing highly complex speech characteristics. They map the speech features with same may not frequency resolutions at all frequencies. Wavelet transform overcomes some of these limitations. Wavelet transform captures signal with fine time resolutions at high frequencies and fine frequency resolutions at low frequencies, which may present a significant advantage when analyzing highly localized speech events. Based on this motivation, this paper investigates the effectiveness of wavelet transform for feature extraction of wavelet transform for feature extraction focused on enhancing speech recognition. The proposed method is implemented using Sampled Continuous Wavelet Transform (SCWT) and its performance is tested on a speaker-independent isolated word recognizer that discerns 50 Korean words. In particular, the effect of mother wavelet employed and number of voices per octave on the performance of proposed method is investigated. Also the influence on the size of mother wavelet on the performance of proposed method is discussed. Throughout the experiments, the performance of proposed method is discussed. Throughout the experiments, the performance of proposed method is compared with the most prevalent conventional method, MFCC (Mel0frequency Cepstral Coefficient). The experiments show that the recognition performance of the proposed method is better than that of MFCC. But the improvement is marginal while, due to the dimensionality increase, the computational loads of proposed method is substantially greater than that of MFCC.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.137-142
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• 2013

음성 인식 시스템은 부정확한 음성 신호의 입력으로 특징을 추출하여 인식할 경우 오인식의 결과가 나타나거나 유사한 음소로 인식된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 음소가 갖는 특징을 기반으로 음소 유사율과 신뢰도 측정을 이용한 음성 인식 오류 보정 방법을 제안하였다. 음소 유사율은 학습 모델의 음소에 MFCC와 LPC 특징 추출 방법을 이용하여 구하였으며 신뢰도로 측정하였다. 음소 유사율과 신뢰도를 측정하여 오인식되는 오류를 최소화하였으며 음성 인식 과정에서 오류로 판명된 음성에 대하여 오류 보정을 수행하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 시스템을 적용한 결과 98.3%의 인식률과 95.5%의 오류 보정율을 나타내었다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제10권7호
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• pp.1307-1311
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 행렬 분해 (Matrix Factorization)를 이용하여 음성 스펙트럼의 부분적 특정을 나타낼 수 있는 새로운 음성 파라마터를 제안한다. 제안된 파라미터는 행렬내의 모든 원소가 음수가 아니라는 조건에서 행렬분해 과정을 거치게 되고 고차원의 데이터가 효과적으로 축소되어 나타남을 알 수 있다. 차원 축소된 데이터는 입력 데이터의 부분적인 특성을 표현한다. 음성 특징 추출 과정에서 일반적으로 사용되는 멜 필터뱅크 (Mel-Filter Bank)의 출력 을 Non-Negative 행렬 분해(NMF:Non-Negative Matrix Factorization) 알고리즘의 입 력으로 사용하고, 알고리즘을 통해 차원 축소된 데이터를 음성인식기의 입력으로 사용하여 멜 주파수 캡스트럼 계수 (MFCC: Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient)의 인식결과와 비교해 보았다. 인식결과를 통하여 일반적으로 음성인식기의 성능평가를 위해 사용되는 MFCC에 비하여 제안된 특정 파라미터가 인식 성능이 뛰어남을 알 수 있었다.