• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.614-620
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a method to effectively determine the representative style embedding of each emotion class to improve the global style token-based end-to-end speech synthesis system. The emotion expressiveness of conventional approach was limited because it utilized only one style representative per each emotion. We overcome the problem by extracting multiple number of representatives per each emotion using a k-means clustering algorithm. Through the results of listening tests, it is proved that the proposed method clearly express each emotion while distinguishing one emotion from others.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.07a
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• pp.11-13
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 시계열 데이터 분류를 통한 음성 감정 인식을 제안한다. mel-spectrogram을 사용하여 음성파일에서 특징을 뽑아내 다변수 시계열 데이터로 변환한다. 이를 Conv1D, GRU, Transformer를 결합한 딥러닝 모델에 학습시킨다. 위의 딥러닝 모델에 음성 감정 인식 데이터 세트인 TESS, SAVEE, RAVDESS, EmoDB에 적용하여 각각의 데이터 세트에서 기존의 모델 보다 높은 정확도의 음성 감정 분류 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 정확도는 99.60%, 99.32%, 97.28%, 99.86%를 얻었다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.159-166
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• 2014

In this paper, we examine the role of emotional acoustic cues including both prosody and voice quality parameters for the modification of a word sense. For the extraction of prosody parameters and voice quality parameters, we used 60 pieces of speech data spoken by six speakers with five different emotional states. We analyzed eight different emotional acoustic cues, and used a discriminant analysis technique in order to find the dominant sequence of acoustic cues. As a result, we found that anger has a close relation with intensity level and 2nd formant bandwidth range; joy has a relative relation with the position of 2nd and 3rd formant values and intensity level; sadness has a strong relation only with prosody cues such as intensity level and pitch level; and fear has a relation with pitch level and 2nd formant value with its bandwidth range. These findings can be used as the guideline for find-tuning an emotional spoken language generation system, because these distinct sequences of acoustic cues reveal the subtle characteristics of each emotional state.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.81-88
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• 2023

Recently, communication through online is increasing due to the spread of non-face-to-face services due to COVID-19. In non-face-to-face situations, the other person's opinions and emotions are recognized through modalities such as text, speech, and images. Currently, research on multimodal emotion recognition that combines various modalities is actively underway. Among them, emotion recognition using speech data is attracting attention as a means of understanding emotions through sound and language information, but most of the time, emotions are recognized using a single speech feature value. However, because a variety of emotions exist in a complex manner in a conversation, a method for recognizing multiple emotions is needed. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a multi-emotion regression model that extracts feature vectors after preprocessing speech data to recognize complex, inherent emotions and takes into account the passage of time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.333-336
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 감정인식 분야에서 가장 많이 사용되어지는 음성신호와 얼굴영상을 가지고 4개의(기쁨, 슬픔, 화남, 놀람) 감정으로 인식하고 각각 얻어진 감정인식 결과를 Multi modal 기법을 이용해서 이들의 감정을 융합한다. 이를 위해 얼굴영상을 이용한 감정인식에서는 주성분 분석(Principal Component Analysis)법을 이용해 특징벡터를 추출하고, 음성신호는 언어적 특성을 배재한 acoustic feature를 사용하였으며 이와 같이 추출된 특징들을 각각 신경망에 적용시켜 감정별로 패턴을 분류하였고, 인식된 결과는 감정표현 시스템에 작용하여 감정을 표현하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.655-660
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• 2005

This paper studied the feature parameters less affected by the emotional variation for the development of the robust speech recognition technologies. For this purpose, the effect of emotional variation on the speech recognition system and robust feature parameters of speech recognition system were studied using speech database containing various emotions. In this study, LPC cepstral coefficient, met-cepstral coefficient, root-cepstral coefficient, PLP coefficient, RASTA met-cepstral coefficient were used as a feature parameters. And CMS and SBR method were used as a signal bias removal techniques. Experimental results showed that the HMM based speaker independent word recognizer using RASTA met-cepstral coefficient :md its derivatives and CMS as a signal bias removal showed the best performance of $7.05\%$ word error rate. This corresponds to about a $52\%$ word error reduction as compare to the performance of baseline system using met - cepstral coefficient.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.284-290
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• 2024

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a technique that is used to analyze the speaker's voice patterns, including vibration, intensity, and tone, to determine their emotional state. There has been an increase in interest in artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, which are now widely used in medicine, education, industry, and the military. Nevertheless, existing researchers have attained impressive results by utilizing acted-out speech from skilled actors in a controlled environment for various scenarios. In particular, there is a mismatch between acted and spontaneous speech since acted speech includes more explicit emotional expressions than spontaneous speech. For this reason, spontaneous speech-emotion recognition remains a challenging task. This paper aims to conduct emotion recognition and improve performance using spontaneous speech data. To this end, we implement deep learning-based speech emotion recognition using the VGG (Visual Geometry Group) after converting 1-dimensional audio signals into a 2-dimensional spectrogram image. The experimental evaluations are performed on the Korean spontaneous emotional speech database from AI-Hub, consisting of 7 emotions, i.e., joy, love, anger, fear, sadness, surprise, and neutral. As a result, we achieved an average accuracy of 83.5% and 73.0% for adults and young people using a time-frequency 2-dimension spectrogram, respectively. In conclusion, our findings demonstrated that the suggested framework outperformed current state-of-the-art techniques for spontaneous speech and showed a promising performance despite the difficulty in quantifying spontaneous speech emotional expression.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.11-18
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• 2023

Recently, in the field of Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), many studies have been conducted to improve accuracy using voice features and modeling. In addition to modeling studies to improve the accuracy of existing voice emotion recognition, various studies using voice features are being conducted. This paper, voice files are separated by time interval in a time series method, focusing on the fact that voice emotions are related to time flow. After voice file separation, we propose a model for classifying emotions of speech data by extracting speech features Mel, Chroma, zero-crossing rate (ZCR), root mean square (RMS), and mel-frequency cepstrum coefficients (MFCC) and applying them to a recurrent neural network model used for sequential data processing. As proposed method, voice features were extracted from all files using 'librosa' library and applied to neural network models. The experimental method compared and analyzed the performance of models of recurrent neural network (RNN), long short-term memory (LSTM) and gated recurrent unit (GRU) using the Interactive emotional dyadic motion capture Interactive Emotional Dyadic Motion Capture (IEMOCAP) english dataset.

• Proceedings of The KACE
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• 2018.08a
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• pp.71-73
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• 2018

사람의 음성이 가진 고유한 특성을 이용하여 그 안에 담긴 감정을 분석하여 파악할 수 있다면 효과적인 의사소통이 가능할 것이다. 본 연구에서는 음성이 가진 피치 값과, 속도의 변화와 같은 요소를 데이터화 하여 그 안에 담긴 감정을 기계학습을 통해 분류 및 예측하는 과정을 거친다. 감정 별 음성 데이터 분석을 위해 다양한 기계학습 알고리즘을 활용하며 선행 연구들보다 높은 정확도로 신뢰할 수 있는 측정 결과를 제공해 줄 수 있을 것이다. 이를 통해 음성만으로 사람의 감정을 파악하여 효과적인 의사소통 및 다양한 분야에 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.493-494
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• 2023

음성 기반의 감정 분석은 인간의 감정을 정확하게 파악하는 데 중요한 연구 분야로 자리잡고 있다. 최근에는 wav2vec2.0과 같은 트랜스포머 기반의 모델이 음성 인식 분야에서 뛰어난 성능을 보이며 주목받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 wav2vec2.0 모델을 활용하여 한국어 감성 발화 데이터에 대한 감정 분류를 위한 데이터 샘플링 전략을 제안한다. 실험을 통해 한국어 음성 감성분석을 위해 학습 데이터를 활용할 때 감정별로 샘플링하여 데이터의 개수를 유사하게 하는 것이 성능 향상에 도움이 되며, 긴 음성 데이터부터 이용하는 것이 성능 향상에 도움이 됨을 보인다.