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Word Boundary Detection of Voice Signal Using Recurrent Fuzzy Associative Memory

순환 퍼지연상기억장치를 이용한 음성경계 추출

  • Published : 2004.09.01
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Abstract

We describe word boundary detection that extracts the boundary between speech and non-speech. The proposed method uses two features. One is the normalized root mean square of speech signal, which is insensitive to white noises and represents temporal information. The other is the normalized met-frequency band energy of voice signal, which is frequency information of the signal. Our method detects word boundaries using a recurrent fuzzy associative memory(RFAM) that extends FAM by adding recurrent nodes. Hebbian learning method is employed to establish the degree of association between an input and output. An error back-propagation algorithm is used for teaming the weights between the consequent layer and the recurrent layer. To confirm the effectiveness, we applied the suggested system to voice data obtained from KAIST.

본 논문에서는 음성인식의 전처리 단계로서 음성 영역과 비음성 영역 사이의 경계를 검출하는 음성경계 추출에 대하여 기술한다. 본 논문에서는 음성경계 추출을 위해 두 가지의 특징벡터를 사용한다. 첫 번째는 백색잡음(white noise)에 강건한 시간 영역의 정보인 정규화된 RMS이고, 두 번째는 주파수 영역의 정보인 정규화된 멜주파수 대역 최대 에너지(met-frequency band maximum energy)이다. 본 논문에서 사용하는 음성경계 추출 알고리즘은 학습을 통해 규칙을 생성하고 음성의 시간 정보를 적용하기 위해 순환노드를 추가한 순환 퍼지연상기억장치이다. 퍼지부의 가중치 학습은 헤비안 학습 방법을 사용하고, 순환부의 가중치 학습을 위해서는 오류 역전파(error back-propagation) 알고리즘을 사용한다. 실험에서는 KAIST에서 제공한 연령과 성별로 구분된 음성 자료를 사용하였다.

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