• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.173-179
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• 2004

Due to the insufficiency of training data in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition, similar context dependent phones can be clustered by decision trees to share the data. When the decision trees are built and used to predict unseen triphones, a phonetic question set is required. The phonetic question set, which contains categories of the phones with similar co-articulation effects, is usually generated by phonetic or linguistic experts. This knowledge-based approach for generating phonetic question set, however, may reduce the homogeneity of the clusters. Moreover, the experts must adjust the question sets whenever the language or the PLU (phone-like unit) of a recognition system is changed. Therefore, we propose a data-driven method to automatically generate phonetic question set. Since the proposed method generates the phone categories using speech data distribution, it is not dependent on the language or the PLU, and may enhance the homogeneity of the clusters. In large vocabulary speech recognition experiments, the proposed algorithm has been found to reduce the error rate by 14.3%.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.277-280
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• 2001

본 연구에서는 연속음성인식 시스템의 성능개선을 위한 기초 연구로서 음소결정트리 상태분할과 한국어 음성학적 지식을 이용하여 문맥의존 음향모델의 작성방법을 검토하고. 한국어 연속음성인식에 적용을 소개한다. 음소결정트리 상태분할 알고리즘은 각 노드에서 한국어 음성학적 지식으로 구성된 음소 질의어 집합에 따라 2진 트리로 SSS(Successive State Splitting) 알고리즘에 의해 상태분할 하는 방법으로서 상태분할 후 각 상태를 네트워크로 연결한 구조를 HM-Net(Hidden Markow Network)이라 하며 문맥의존 음향모델로 표현된다. 작성한 문맥의존 음향모델의 유효성을 확인하기 위해 본 연구실의 항공편 예약 문장(YNU200)에 대해 연속음성인식 실험을 수행하였다. 인식실험 결과, 문맥의존 음향모델에 대한 화자독립 연속음성인식률이 기존의 단일 HMM 모델보다 평균적으로 1-pass의 경우 9.9%, 2-pass의 경우 4.1% 향상된 인식률을 보였다. 따라서 문맥의존 음향모델을 작성하는데 음소결정트리 상태분할과 한국어 음성학적 지식이 유효함을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.199-210
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• 2002

In this paper, we carried out the study on speech recognition using the KM-Net topology design algorithm based on decision tree state-clustering to improve the performance of acoustic models in speech recognition. The Korean has many allophonic and grammatical rules compared to other languages, so we investigate the allophonic variations, which defined the Korean phonetics, and construct the phoneme question set for phonetic decision tree. The basic idea of the HM-Net topology design algorithm is that it has the basic structure of SSS (Successive State Splitting) algorithm and split again the states of the context-dependent acoustic models pre-constructed. That is, it have generated. the phonetic decision tree using the phoneme question sets each the state of models, and have iteratively trained the state sequence of the context-dependent acoustic models using the PDT-SSS (Phonetic Decision Tree-based SSS) algorithm. To verify the effectiveness of the above algorithm we carried out the speech recognition experiments for 452 words of center for Korean language Engineering (KLE452) and 200 sentences of air flight reservation task (YNU200). Experimental results show that the recognition accuracy has progressively improved according to the number of states variations after perform the splitting of states in the phoneme, word and continuous speech recognition experiments respectively. Through the experiments, we have got the average 71.5%, 99.2% of the phoneme, word recognition accuracy when the state number is 2,000, respectively and the average 91.6% of the continuous speech recognition accuracy when the state number is 800. Also we haute carried out the word recognition experiments using the HTK (HMM Too1kit) which is performed the state tying, compared to share the parameters of the HM-Net topology design algorithm. In word recognition experiments, the HM-Net topology design algorithm has an average of 4.0% higher recognition accuracy than the context-dependent acoustic models generated by the HTK implying the effectiveness of it.