• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.36-39
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 기존의 반연속 HMM과 신경망 알고리즘인 RBF(Radial Basis Function)를 혼합한 형태를 음성인식에 적용한다. 기존의 반연속 HMM은 학습 과정에서 모든 모델과 상태에서 공유되는 L개의 가우시안 확률 밀도들과 각가우시안 확률 밀도들의 가중치를 결정하는 흔합 밀도계수 의해 입력 음성의 특징을 확률적으로 모델링하는 혼합 확률을 얻고 또 Maximum likelihood와 Baum-Welch 알고리즘을 이용해 초기확률, 전이확률, 관측확률, 평균벡터 $\mu$, 공분산 행렬 $\Sigma$을 학습해 나간다. 그러나 제안한 RBF/반연속 HMM 혼합형태는 RBF의 변형된 방식을 첨가해 반연속 HMM 관측 파라미터를 RBF에 의해 결정함으로써 보단 분별릭 있는 화자독립 인식 시스템이 된다. 그래서 인식 실험결과 인식률에 있어서 기존의 반연속 HMM보다 향상된 인식률을 얻는다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.94-99
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• 1999

It is the hybrid structure of HMM and neural network(NN) that shows high recognition rate in speech recognition algorithms. And it is a method which has majorities of statistical model and neural network model respectively. In this study, we propose a new style of the hybrid structure of semi-continuous HMM(SCHMM) and radial basis function(RBF), which re-estimates weighting coefficients probability affecting observation probability after Baum-Welch estimation. The proposed method takes account of the similarity of basis Auction of RBF's hidden layer and SCHMM's probability density functions so as to discriminate speech signals sensibly through the learned and estimated weighting coefficients of RBF. As simulation results show that the recognition rates of the hybrid structure SCHMM/RBF are higher than those of SCHMM in unlearned speakers' recognition experiment, the proposed method has been proved to be one which has more sensible property in recognition than SCHMM.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.49-54
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 잡음이 존재하는 환경에 강인한 것으로 알려져 있는 투영 방법을 우 도 측정에 가중 함수와 결합하여 사용하는 방법을 제안하였다. 반연속 HMM을 이용한 고립 단어의 인식 실험 결과, 제안한 방법이 실험에 사용된 잡음의 환경들에서 모두 좋은 성능을 나타내었다. 아울러 병렬 모델 결합 방법을 반연속 HMM에 적용하였는데 이는 코드북의 변 환반으로 쉽게 잡음의 특성을 반영할 수 있다. 가중 투영 우도 측정 방법을 병렬 모델 결합 방법에 적용한 경우에도 우수한 성능을 거둘 수 있었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.7
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• pp.312-318
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• 2006

The conventional lip-synch system has a two-step process, speech segmentation and recognition. However, the difficulty of speech segmentation procedure and the inaccuracy of training data set due to the segmentation lead to a significant Performance degradation in the system. To cope with that, the connected vowel recognition method using Head-Body-Tail (HBT) model is proposed. The HBT model which is appropriate for handling relatively small sized vocabulary tasks reflects co-articulation effect efficiently. Moreover the 7 vowels are merged into 3 classes having similar lip shape while the system is optimized by employing a class dependent SCHMM structure. Additionally in both end sides of each word which has large variations, 8 components Gaussian mixture model is directly used to improve the ability of representation. Though the proposed method reveals similar performance with respect to the CHMM based on the HBT structure. the number of parameters is reduced by 33.92%. This reduction makes it a computationally efficient method enabling real time operation.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.85-89
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• 1996

In this paper, transition constrained Hidden Markov Model(HMM) in which the transition between states occur only within prescribed time slot is proposed and the performance is evaluated in the noisy environment. The transition constrained HMM can explicitly limit the state durations and accurately de scribe the temporal structure of speech signal simply and efficiently. The transition constrained HMM is not only superior to the conventional HMM but also require much less computation time. In order to evaluate the performance of the transition constrained HMM, speaker independent isolated word recognition experiments were conducted using semi-continuous HMM with the noisy speech for 20, 10, 0 dB SNR. Experiment results show that the proposed method is robust to the environmental noise. The 81.08% and 75.36% word recognition rates for conventional HMM was increased by 7.31% and 10.35%, respectively, by using transition constrained HMM when two kinds of noises are added with 10dB SNR.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1995.06a
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• pp.228-231
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• 1995

반연속 HMM 음성인식 시스템의 화자 적응 성능 향상을 위해 코드북 변환 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 기존의 화자 적응 알고리즘으로는 새로운 화자의 적응 데이터 특징의 분포와 HMM 모수의 사전밀도를 함께 고려하는 베이시안 화자적응 알고리즘이 있다. 그러나 새로운 화자의 특징분포와 코드북 사전 밀도의 차이가 큰 경우 적응 데이터와 코드북간의 잘못된 대응 관계를 얻을 수 있으며, 기준 코드북에 필요 이상으로 많은 코드워드가 존재하는 경우 적응된 코드북에도 불필요한 코드워드 들이 남아 인식 과정에 혼란을 줄 수 있다. 이 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 제안된 코드북 변환 알고리즘에서는 주파수 영역의 포만트 정보를 이용하였다. 화자 적응을 수행하기 앞서 코드북의 켑스트럼으로부터 포만트를 추출해 내고, 이들의 분포를 적응 화자의 포만트 분포와 일치되도록 변환시켜 주었다. 이 변환된 포만트들로부터 다시 켑스트럼을 구하여 변환된 코드북을 얻고 이를 화자 적응의 초기 코드북으로 사용하였다. 제안된 알고리즘을 이용하였을 경우 코드북과 적응 화자의 음성 간의 정확한 대응관계를 찾을 수 있었고, 불필요한 코드워드들이 인식 과정에서 사용되지 않도록 변환되어 인식률이 향상되는 것을 실험을 통해 확인하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.112-117
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• 1999

In case of spectral subtraction for noise robust speech recognition system, this method often makes loss of speech signal. In this study, we propose a method that variation and determination of Gaussian function at semi-continuous HMM(Hidden Markov Model) is made on the basis of SNR criteria function, in which SNR means signal to noise ratio between estimation noise and subtracted signal per frame. For proving effectiveness of this method, we show the estimation error to be related with the magnitude of estimated noise through signal waveform. For this reason, Gaussian function is varied and determined by SNR. When we test recognition rate by computer simulation under the noise environment of driving car over the speed of 80㎞/h, the proposed Gaussian decision method by SNR turns out to get more improved recognition rate compared with the frequency subtracted and non-subtracted cases.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.90-97
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• 2000

This paper describes an speaker-adaptive speech recognition system which make a reliable recognition of speech signal for new speakers. In the Proposed method, an speech spectrum of new speaker is adapted to the reference speech spectrum by using Parameters of a 1st linear transformation network at the front of phoneme classification neural network. And the recognition system is based on semicontinuous HMM(hidden markov model) which use the multilayer perceptron as a fuzzy vector quantizer. The experiments on the isolated word recognition are performed to show the recognition rate of the recognition system. In the case of speaker adaptation recognition, the recognition rate show significant improvement for the unadapted recognition system.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.61-66
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• 1999

In this paper, we proposed various speaker adaptation methods and studied the performance of these methods. Methods which were studied in this paper are MAPE(Maximum A Posteriori Probability Estimation), Linear Spectral Estimating, Multi-Layer Perceptron and ARTMAP. In order to evaluate the performance of these methods, we used Korean isolated digits as the experimental data, the hybrid speaker adaptation method, which unified MAPE, linear spectral estimating and output probability of SCHMM, showed the better recognition result than those which performed other methods. And the method using ARTMAP showed the similar result to above hybrid method.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.32-35
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• 1999

기존의 반연속 HMM의 파라미터들 중에서 평균 벡터와 분산 행렬은 Maximum Likelihood Estimation 방법을 사용하여 학습한다. 본 논문에서는 평균 벡터를 위하여 Fuzzy c-means(FCM) 알고리즘을 사용하였고 분산 행렬을 위하여 FCM 알고리즘의 평균 벡터를 적용, 변형한 새로운 함수를 사용하여 화자적응에 적용하였다. 이러한 평균 벡터와 분산 행렬의 추정 방법은 새로운 화자에 대한 적응 능력을 갖는다. 제안한 방법을 적용한 한국어 격리 단어에 대한 컴퓨터 모의 실험결과 새로운 화자에 대해 적응함을 확인하였다.