• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.74-82
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• 2016

In this paper, a new automatic speech recognition (ASR) was proposed where ultrasonic doppler signals were used, instead of conventional speech signals. The proposed method has the advantages over the conventional speech/non-speech-based ASR including robustness against acoustic noises and user comfortability associated with usage of the non-contact sensor. In the method proposed herein, 40 kHz ultrasonic signal was radiated toward to the mouth and the reflected ultrasonic signals were then received. Frequency shift caused by the doppler effects was used to implement ASR. The proposed method employed multi-channel ultrasonic signals acquired from the various locations, which is different from the previous method where single channel ultrasonic signal was employed. The PCA(Principal Component Analysis) coefficients were used as the features of ASR in which hidden markov model (HMM) with left-right model was adopted. To verify the feasibility of the proposed ASR, the speech recognition experiment was carried out the 60 Korean isolated words obtained from the six speakers. Moreover, the experiment results showed that the overall word recognition rates were comparable with the conventional speech-based ASR methods and the performance of the proposed method was superior to the conventional signal channel ASR method. Especially, the average recognition rate of 90 % was maintained under the noise environments.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.27 no.12
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• pp.1174-1182
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• 2000

본 논문은 주행중인 자동차 환경에서 운전자의 안전성 및 편의성의 동시 확보를 위하여, 보조적인 스위치 조작 없이 상시 음성의 입, 출력이 가능한 시스템을 제안하였다. 이대 잡음에 강인한 threshold 값을 구하기 위하여, 1.5초마다 기준 에너지와 영 교차율을 변경하였으며 대역 통과 여과기를 이용하여 1차, 2차로 나누어 실시간 상태에서 자동으로, 정확하게 끝점 검출을 처리하였다. 또한 남성, 여성을 피치검출로 구분하여 모델을 선택하게 하였고, 주행중인 자동차 속도에 따라 가장 적합한 모델을 사용하기 위하여 Idle-40km, 40-80km, 80-100km로 구분하여 남성, 여성 모델을 각각 구분하여 인식할 수 있게 하였다. 그리고, 음성의 특징 벡터와 인식 알고리즘은 PLP 13차와 OSDP(one-Stage Dynamic Programming)을 사용하였다. 본 실험은 서울시내 도로 및 내부 순환도로에서 각각 속도별로 구분하여 화자독립 인식 실험을 한 결과 40-80km 상태에서 남자는 96.8%, 여자는 95.1%, 80-100km 상태에서는 남자 91.6%, 여자는 90.6%의 인식결과를 얻을 수 있었고, 화자종속 인식실험 결과 40-80km 상태에서 남자는 98%, 여자는 96%, 80-100km 상태에서는 남자는 96%, 여자는 94%의 높은 인식률을 얻었으므로, system의 유효성을 입증하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.348-354
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• 2003

This proposes a new algorithm for advanced personal identification system using iris pattern and speech signal. Since the proposed algorithm adopts a fusion scheme to take advantage of iris recognition and speaker identification, it shows robustness for noisy environments. For evaluating the performance of the proposed scheme, we compare it with the iris pattern recognition and speaker identification respectively. In the experiments, the proposed method showed more 56.7% improvements than the iris recognition method and more 10% improvements than the speaker identification method for high quality security level. Also, in noisy environments, the proposed method showed more 30% improvements than the iris recognition method and more 60% improvements than the speaker identification method for high quality security level.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.181-186
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose the Noise Cancel DTW that to use a kind of feature compensation. This method is not to use estimated noise but we use real life environment noise data for Voice Recognition. And we applied this contaminated data for recognition reference model that suitable for noise environment. NCDTW is combined with surround noise when generating reference patten. We improved voice recognition rate at mobile environment to use NCDTW.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.991-998
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• 2010

In realization of wireless home network system using speech recognition in indoor voice recognition environment, background noise and reverberation are two main causes of digression in voice recognition system. In this study, the home network system resistant to reverberation and background noise using voice section detection method based on spectral entropy in indoor recognition environment is to be realized. Spectral subtraction can reduce the effect of reverberation and remove noise independent from voice signal by eliminating signal distorted by reverberation in spectrum. For effective spectral subtraction, the correct separation of voice section and silent section should be accompanied and for this, improvement of performance needs to be done, applying to voice section detection method based on entropy. In this study, experimental and indoor environment testing is carried out to figure out command recognition rate in indoor recognition environment. The test result shows that command recognition rate improved in static environment and reverberant room condition, using voice section detection method based on spectral entropy.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.252-261
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• 2013

The common speech recognition system displays higher recognition performance in a quiet environment, while its performance declines sharply in a real environment where there are noises. To implement a speech recognizer that is robust in different speech settings, this study suggests the method of Parallel Model Combination adaptation using frequency-variant based on environment-awareness (FV-PMC), which uses variants in frequency; acquires the environmental data for speech recognition; applies it to upgrading the speech recognition model; and promotes its performance enhancement. This FV-PMC performs the speech recognition with the recognition model which is generated as followings: i) calculating the average frequency variant in advance among the readily-classified noise groups and setting it as a threshold value; ii) recalculating the frequency variant among noise groups when speech with unknown noises are input; iii) regarding the speech higher than the threshold value of the relevant group as the speech including the noise of its group; and iv) using the speech that includes this noise group. When noises were classified with the proposed FV-PMC, the average accuracy of classification was 56%, and the results from the speech recognition experiments showed the average recognition rate of Set A was 79.05%, the rate of Set B 79.43%m, and the rate of Set C 83.37% respectively. The grand mean of recognition rate was 80.62%, which demonstrates 5.69% more improved effects than the recognition rate of 74.93% of the existing Parallel Model Combination with a clear model, meaning that the proposed method is effective.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.195-200
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• 2004

In this paper we propose effective speech recognizer through two recognition experiments. In general, SVM is classification method which classify two class set by finding voluntary nonlinear boundary in vector space and possesses high classification performance under few training data number. In this paper we compare recognition performance of HMM and SVM at training data number and investigate recognition performance of each feature parameter while changing feature space of MFCC using Independent Component Analysis(ICA) and Principal Component Analysis(PCA). As a result of experiment, recognition performance of SVM is better than 1:.um under few training data number, and feature parameter by ICA showed the highest recognition performance because of superior linear classification.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.1-8
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• 2004

In this paper, we implement the Digital Signal Processing System based on Human Machine Interface technology for the telematics with embedded noise-robust speech recognition engine and develop the communication system which can be applied to the automobile information center through the human-machine interface technology. Through the embedded speech recognition engine, we can develop the total DSP system based on Human Machine Interface for the telematics in order to test the total system and also the total telematics services.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.613-620
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• 2010

Additive noise and channel distortion strongly degrade the performance of speaker verification systems, as it introduces distortion of the features of speech. This distortion causes a mismatch between the training and recognition conditions such that acoustic models trained with clean speech do not model noisy and channel distorted speech accurately. This paper presents a phase-related feature extraction method in order to improve the robustness of the speaker verification systems. The instantaneous frequency is computed from the phase of speech signals and features from the histogram of the instantaneous frequency are obtained. Experimental results show that the proposed technique offers significant improvements over the standard techniques in both clean and adverse testing environments.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.4-8
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 다양한 전화선 채널을 통하여 수집된 음성 데이터에 포함된 잡음 및 채널 왜곡을 제거하여 음성인식 시스템의 성능을 향상시키는 방법에 관하여 연구하였다. 전 화선을 통과한 음성에 포함된 채널 잡음 및 왜곡을 제거하는 방법으로는 음성신호를 보상하 는 방법으로 CMS(Cepstral Mean Subtraction), SBR(Signal Bias Removal)과 SM(Stochastic Matching)의 성능을 비교 평가하였다. 잡음제거 방식의 성능을 평가를 위하 여 음소 단위의 반연속 HMM을 이용한 화자독립 단독음 인식을 수행하였다. 인식 실험 결 과, 멜 켑스트럼을 사용한 경우에 CMS가 가장 우수한 성능을 내었고 다음으로 SM과 SBR 순으로 나타났다. 또한 특징벡터를 주변 잡음에 강인하게 하는 가중함수(RPS, BPL)를 사용 한 켑스트럼 계수와 잡음제거 방식을 함께 사용한 경우에 인식 성능이 더욱 향상되었다.