• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.649-655
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• 2006

This paper proposes a HMM-based recognition method using DMSVQ(Dynamic Multi-Section Vector Quantization) codebook by DMS model and double spectral feature, as a method on the speech recognition of speaker-independent. LPC cepstrum parameter is used as a instantaneous spectral feature and LPC cepstrum's regression coefficient is used as a dynamic spectral feature These two spectral features are quantized as each VQ codebook. HMM using DMS model is modeled by receiving instantaneous spectral feature and dynamic spectral feature by input. Other experiments to compare with the results of recognition experiments using proposed method are implemented by the various conventional recognition methods under the equivalent environment of data and conditions. Through the experiment results, it is proved that the proposed method in this paper is superior to the conventional recognition methods.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.52-60
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• 1991

This paper describes the study on isolated word recognition by using DHMM(Dynamic Hidden Markov Model) which has dynamic feature of spectrum as a parameter. This paper discusses speech recognition experiment basedon HMM which can evaluate not only instantaneous spectral features but also dynamic spectral features. LPC cepstrum parameters is used as a static feature and LPC cepstrum's regression coefficient is used as a dynamic feature. These two features are quantized by each VQ codebook. DHMM is modeled by receiving static vector and dynamic vector by input. In the whole experiment, as recognition experiment using DHMM shows 92.7% of recognition rate while the experiment using conventional HMM shows 88.8% of recognition rate, DHMM proved to be a useful model.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.94-99
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• 1997

This paper describes a technique of probabilistic spectral subtraction which uses the knowledge of both noise and speech so as to reduce automatic speech recognition errors in noisy environments. Spectral subtraction method estimates a noise prototype in non-speech intervals and the spectrum of clean speech is obtained from the spectrum of noisy speech by subtracting this noise prototype. Thus noise can not be suppressed effectively using a single noise prototype in case the characteristics of the noise prototype are different from those of the noise contained in input noisy speech. To modify such a drawback, multiple noise prototypes are used in probabilistic subtraction method. In this paper, the probabilistic characteristics of noise and the knowledge of speech which is embedded in hidden Markov models trained in clean environments are used to suppress noise. Futhermore, dynamic feature parameters are considered as well as static feature parameters for effective noise suppression. The proposed method reduced error rates in the recognition of 50 Korean words. The recognition rate was 86.25% with the probabilistic subtraction, 72.75% without any noise suppression method and 80.25% with spectral subtraction at SNR(Signal-to-Noise Ratio) 10 dB.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.115-118
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• 2002

Parameters used in a speaker recognition system are desirable expressing speaker's characteristics filly and have in a speech. That is to say, if inter-speaker than intra-speaker variance a big characteristic, it is useful to distinguish between speakers. Also, to make minimum error between speakers, it is required the improved recognition technology as well as the distinguishing characteristics. When we see the result of recent simulation performance, we obtain more exact performance by using dynamic characteristics and constant characteristics by a speaking habit. Therefore we suggest it to solve this problem as followings. The prosodic information is used by a characteristic vector of speech. Characteristics vector generally using in speaker recognition system is a modeling spectrum information and is working for a high performance in non-noise circumstance. However, it is found a problem that characteristic vector is distorted in noise circumstance and it makes a reduction of recognition rate. In this paper, we change pitch line divided by segment which can estimate a dynamic characteristic and it is used as a recognition characteristic. we confirmed that the dynamic characteristic is very robust in noise circumstance with a simulation. We make a decision of acceptance or rejection by comparing test pattern and recognition rate using the proposed algorithm has more improvement than using spectrum and prosodic information. Especially stational recognition rate can be obtained in noise circumstance through the simulation.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.211-214
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• 2003

일반적으로 음성 인식에서의 성능은 잡음의 영향으로 인하여 저하된다. 전화망을 통한 한국어 연속 숫자음 인식은 음성인식 분야에 있어서 어려운 영역에 속하는데, 이는 조음 현상으로 인한 인식률 저하되는 점과 전화망 채널의 영향으로 인하여 스펙트럼 포락이 왜곡되며 음성신호의 대역폭이 제한되기 때문이다. 본 논문에서는 잡음의 영향을 줄이기 위하여, 2WF(2-stage Wiener Filter) 와 SWP (SNR-dependent Waveform Processing) 그리고 CMN(Cepstrum Mean Normalization)을 사용하였다. 2WF는 음성 신호의 포만트 구조를 적게 왜곡시키면서 전체적인 가산잡음 뿐만 아니라 동적 가산잡음도 줄여준다. SWP는 음성파형에서 SNR값이 상대적으로 큰 부분을 강조하여 전체적인 SNR을 향상시킬 수 있다. 또한, CMN은 특징벡터로부터 채널잡음의 영향을 정규화하여 음성 인식 성능을 향상시킨다. 이러한 방법들을 전화망 한국어 연속 숫자음 DB를 이용하여 실험한 결과, 음성신호의 왜곡을 최소화하면서 잡음의 영향을 줄여 전화망에서의 숫자음 인식 성능을 향상시킬 수 있었다.