• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.2 no.6
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• pp.867-874
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• 2001

In this paper, considering the pronunciation characteristic of Korean, recognition units which can shorten the recognition time and reflect the coarticulation effect simultaneously are suggested. These units are composed of monophone and hipbone ones. Monophone units are applied to the vowels which represent stable characteristic. Biphones are used to the consonant which vary according to adjacent vowel. In the experiment of word recognition of PBW445 database, the compound units result in comparable recognition accuracy with 57％ speed up compared with triphone units and better recognition accuracy with similar speed. In addition, we can reduce the memory size because of fewer units.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.373-377
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• 2010

Numerous quantitative and qualitative studies have already been published related to English vowels. However, only minimal amounts of studies based on the acoustic analysis of Korean vowels have been accomplished. The purpose of this study is to obtain sufficient quantitative data based on the acoustic aspects of Korean vowels produced by males between the ages of 20s and 30s. A total of 31 males in their 20s and 30s produced the five fundamental vowels /a, e, i, o, u/ by repeating each of them three times in the standard Korean dialect. Such speech productions were recorded with 'Cool edit' and F1, F2, F3, F4 were extracted through the MATLAB acoustic analysis program. Results indicated that the overall patterns of formants were similar to previous studies, except that the formant levels of F1 and F2 of the vowels produced in this study were generally lower than that in previous studies. Future studies need to focus on obtaining vowel data by considering other factors such as age and other speech materials.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.56-62
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• 2001

In this paper, we adopt a missing data theory to speech recognition. It can be used in order to maintain high performance of speech recognizer when the missing data occurs. In general, hidden Markov model (HMM) is used as a stochastic classifier for speech recognition task. Acoustic events are represented by continuous probability density function in continuous density HMM(CDHMM). The missing data theory has an advantage that can be easily applicable to this CDHMM. A marginalization method is used for processing missing data because it has small complexity and is easy to apply to automatic speech recognition (ASR). Also, a spectral subtraction is used for detecting missing data. If the difference between the energy of speech and that of background noise is below given threshold value, we determine that missing has occurred. We propose a new method that examines the reliability of detected missing data using voicing probability. The voicing probability is used to find voiced frames. It is used to process the missing data in voiced region that has more redundant information than consonants. The experimental results showed that our method improves performance than baseline system that uses spectral subtraction method only. In 452 words isolated word recognition experiment, the proposed method using the voicing probability reduced the average word error rate by 12％ in a typical noise situation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.768-770
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• 2016

현재 NUI(Natural User Interface)는 차세대 입력 방식으로 주목을 받고 있다. 이미 한글 입력에 관한 NUI가 다양하게 연구 및 개발되고 있지만, 한글 입력 NUI는 직관성과 정확도의 부족과 불완전한 인식률 등의 한계점이 존재한다. 본 연구에서는 사용자의 핸드 제스처를 인식하기 위해 Leap Motion 장치를 사용하고, 한글의 글자 조합 원리를 바탕으로 자음과 모음 입력의 제스처를 분리하여 인식의 정확도를 높인다. 그리고 모음의 방향성을 참고하여 한글 입력에 직관성을 향상할 수 있는 핸드 제스처를 연구한다. 이를 통해 사용자가 NUI 환경의 디바이스를 좀 더 정확하고 빠르게 조작할 수 있도록 돕는다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics T
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• v.35T no.3
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• pp.9-14
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• 1998

The speech recognition on long vowels are carried out by electric circuits. A level compressor is able to transform the wave of voice to serial pulses. The obtained pulses have informations to distinguish the vowels. The sampling of the pulses is carried out by the register which picks up a series of serial signals in a pitch of a vowel as an unit. The timing control pulses such as sampling pulses are generated by using peak pulses in the speech wave. The parallel data in the register assign the phonetic symbol by means of the decision making circuit which carries out the IF-THEN rule.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.167-170
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• 2000

일반적인 한국어 대용량 어휘인식에 사용되는 triphone 모델은 한국어의 특성을 잘 표현한다는 장점이 있으나 인식시간이 길어지게 된다. 이러한 triphone 모델의 단점을 극복하기 위해 음절단위 HMM 모델을 사용하는 방법이 있는데 이 모델은 인식시간을 줄일 수 있으나 triphone 모델에 비해서 인식률이 낮다. 본 논문에서는 음성 인식시간을 단축시키고 조음현상을 고려하기 위하여 초성과 종성 자음은 각각의 biphones으로 나타내고 중성 모음은 1개의 monophone으로 나타내는 모델을 제안하였다. PBW445 음성 데이터베이스에 대한 실험결과, 제안한 인식모델이 triphone 모델에 가까운 인식률을 나타내었으며, 인식시간을 크게 단축하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.49-57
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• 2010

In this thesis, We studied on hand-written character recognition, that characters entered into a digital input device and remove noise and separating character elements using preprocessing. And processed character images has done thinning and 3-level wavelet transform for making normalized image and reducing image data. The structural method among the numerical Hangul recognition methods are suitable for recognition of printed or hand-written characters because it is usefull method deal with distortion. so that method are applied to separating elements and analysing texture. The results show that recognition by analysing texture is easily distinguished with respect to consonants. But hand-written characters are tend to decreasing successful recognition rate for the difficulty of extraction process of the starting point, of interconnection of each elements, of mis-recognition from vanishing at the thinning process, and complexity of character combinations. Some characters associated with the separation process is more complicated and sometime impossible to separating elements. However, analysis texture of the proposed character recognition with the exception of the complex handwritten is aware of the character.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.247-252
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to suggest the visual teaching method for the English vowel pronunciation, especially for the hearing-impaired who mostly rely on the visual aids, based on the SVM technique. By extracting phonetic features using the SVM technique from the sounds that are hard to hear by ear, the lip shapes for each vowel were refined. The lip shape refinement for vowels is advantageous in that language learners can easily see the movement of articulators by eye, and it is helpful for learning and teaching English vowels for the hearing-impaired.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.40-45
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• 2003

This is the study on recognition units and segmentation of phonemes. In the case of making large vocabulary speech recognition system, it is better to use the segment than the syllable or the word as the recognition unit. In this paper, we study on the proper recognition units and segmentation of phonemes for Korean speech recognition. For experiments, we use the speech toolkit of OGI in U.S.A. The result shows that the recognition rate of the case in which the diphthong is established as a single unit is superior to that of the case in which the diphthong is established as two units, i.e. a glide plus a vowel. And recognizer using manually-aligned training data is a little superior to that using automatically-aligned training data. Also, the recognition rate of the case in which the bipbone is used as the recognition unit is better than that of the case in which the mono-Phoneme is used.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.47-52
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• 2000

In the case of making large vocabulary speech recognition system, it is better to use the segment than the syllable or the word as the recognition mit. In this paper, we study on the proper recognition units for Korean speech recognition. For experiments, we use the speech toolkit of OGI in U.S.A. The result shows that the recognition rate of the case in which the diphthong is established as a single unit is superior to that of the case in which the diphthong is established as two units, i.e. a glide plus a vowel. And also, the recognition rate of the case in which the biphone is used as the recognition unit is better than that of the case in which the mono-phoneme is used.