• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.735-742
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a method of extracting speech features for phoneme recognition based on spikegram. The Fourier-transform-based features are widely used in phoneme recognition, but they are not extracted in a biologically plausible way and cannot have high temporal resolution due to the frame-based operation. For better phoneme recognition, therefore, it is desirable to have a new method of extracting speech features, which analyzes speech signal in high temporal resolution following the model of human auditory system. In this paper, we analyze speech signal based on a spikegram that models feature extraction and transmission in auditory system, and then propose a method of feature extraction from the spikegram for phoneme recognition. We evaluate the performance of proposed features by using a DNN-based phoneme recognizer and confirm that the proposed features provide better performance than the Fourier-transform-based features for short-length phonemes. From this result, we can verify the feasibility of new speech features extracted based on auditory model for phoneme recognition.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.06c
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• pp.121-124
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• 1994

음소를 인식의 기본으로 하는 한국어 음성인식 시스템을 구현하기 위한 기초 연구의 일환으로서 각 음소의 특징 가장 잘 표현하는 기준프레임 추출을 위한 연구를 수행하였다. 이를 위하여 먼저 선행 실험과 분산비 분석을 통해서 인식에 필요로한 시간 패턴의 길이를 추출한 후 이를 바탕으로 통계적 인식방법인 베이즈 결정법칙을 이용하여 시단 프레임으로부터 3프레임씩 시점을 1프레임씩 옮기면서 인식 실험을 해？여, 각 음소별 특징이 가장 풍부한 기준 프레임을 추출하였다. 그리고 이 기준 프레임을 중심으로 각 음소군별 인식 실험을 수행하여 그 결과를 시단을 기준으로 한 경우와 비교 검토하고 한국어 전 음소별로 확장하여 인식 실험을 실시하였다. 이 실험 결과 모음의 경우 시단으로부터 5프레임, 파열음은 시단에서부터 5프레임사이, 마찰음은 3프레임에서부터 10프레임까지, 파찰음은 5프레임까지, 비음과 유음의 경우 초성은 시단 프레임에서 6프레임, 종성은 종단으로부터 전 4프레임 구간이 인식률이 높게 나타나 이 부분의 특징이 인식에 가장 유효함을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.137-142
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• 2013

Speech recognition system is input of inaccurate vocabulary by feature extraction case of recognition by appear result of unrecognized or similar phoneme recognized. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a speech recognition error correction method using phoneme similarity rate and reliability measures based on the characteristics of the phonemes. Phonemes similarity rate was phoneme of learning model obtained used MFCC and LPC feature extraction method, measured with reliability rate. Minimize the error to be unrecognized by measuring the rate of similar phonemes and reliability. Turned out to error speech in the process of speech recognition was error compensation performed. In this paper, the result of applying the proposed system showed a recognition rate of 98.3%, error compensation rate 95.5% in the speech recognition.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.13-19
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• 2000

The blind segmentation method, which segments input speech data into recognition unit without any prior knowledge, plays an important role in continuous speech recognition system and corpus generation. As no prior knowledge is required, this method is rather simple to implement, but in general, it suffers from bad performance when compared to the knowledge-based segmentation method. In this paper, we introduce a method to improve the performance of a blind segmentation of Korean continuous speech by postprocessing the segment boundaries obtained from the blind segmentation. In the preprocessing stage, the candidate boundaries are extracted by a clustering technique based on the GLR(generalized likelihood ratio) distance measure. In the postprocessing stage, the final phoneme boundaries are selected from the candidates by utilizing a simple a priori knowledge on the syllabic structure of Korean, i.e., the maximum number of phonemes between any consecutive nuclei is limited. The experimental result was rather promising : the proposed method yields 25% reduction of insertion error rate compared that of the blind segmentation alone.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.83-90
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• 2010

In vocabulary recognition system has reduce recognition rate unrecognized error cause of similar phoneme recognition and due to provided inaccurate vocabulary. Input of inaccurate vocabulary by feature extraction case of recognition by appear result of unrecognized or similar phoneme recognized. Also can't feature extraction properly when phoneme recognition is similar phoneme recognition. In this paper propose vocabulary recognition post-process error correction system using phoneme likelihood based on phoneme feature. Phoneme likelihood is monophone training phoneme data by find out using MFCC and LPC feature extraction method. Similar phoneme is induced able to recognition of accurate phoneme due to inaccurate vocabulary provided unrecognized reduced error rate. Find out error correction using phoneme likelihood and confidence when vocabulary recognition perform error correction for error proved vocabulary. System performance comparison as a result of recognition improve represent MFCC 7.5%, LPC 5.3% by system using error pattern and system using semantic.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.60-67
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• 1987

In this paper, a phoneme classification method for Korean speech recognition has been proposed and its performance has been studied. The phoneme classification has been done based on the phonemic features extracted by the prewindowed recursive least-square (PRLS) algorithm that is a kind of adaptive filter algorithms. Applying the PRLS algorithm to input speech signal, precise detection of phoneme boundaries has been made, Reference patterns of Korean phonemes have been generated by the ordinery vector quantization (VQ) of feature vectors obtained manualy from prototype regions of each phoneme. In order to obtain the performance of the proposed phoneme classification method, the method has been tested using spoken names of seven Korean cities which have eleven different consonants and eight different vowels. In the speaker-dependent phoneme classification, the accuracy is about $85\%$ considering simple phonemic rules of Korean language, while the accuracy of the speaker-independent case is far less than that of the speaker-dependent case.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.219-224
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• 2012

In the communication mobile terminal, Vocabulary recognition system has low recognition rates, because this problems are due to phoneme feature extract from inaccurate vocabulary. Therefore they are not recognize the phoneme and similar phoneme misunderstanding error. To solve this problem, this paper propose the system model, which based on the two step process. First, input phoneme is represent by number which measure the distance of phonemes through phoneme likelihood process. next step is recognize the result through the reliability measure. By this process, we minimize the phoneme misunderstanding error caused by inaccurate vocabulary and perform error correction rate for error provrd vocabulary using phoneme likelihood and reliability. System performance comparison as a result of recognition improve represent 2.7% by method using error pattern learning and semantic pattern.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.73-80
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• 2010

Vocabulary recognition system is providing inaccurate vocabulary and similar phoneme recognition due to reduce recognition rate. It's require method of similar phoneme recognition unrecognized and efficient feature extraction process. Therefore in this paper propose phoneme likelihood error correction improvement system using based on phoneme feature Bhattacharyya distance measurement. Phoneme likelihood is monophone training data phoneme using HMM feature extraction method, similar phoneme is induced recognition able to accurate phoneme using Bhattacharyya distance measurement. They are effective recognition rate improvement. System performance comparison as a result of recognition improve represent 1.2%, 97.91% by Euclidean distance measurement and dynamic time warping(DTW) system.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.273.2-277
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 음소단위 비정형 연결합성 시, 접합점에서 포만트 불연속을 최소화할 수 있도록 이웃음소간 경계강도 예측모델과 합성단위 검색시 음소단위 최장일치 검색 알고리즘을 설계하였다. 합성단위 연결부에서 발생하는 신호왜곡을 최소화하기 위해 “_C_”환경에서 자음이 유성음화된 경우, “_V_”환경에서 모음이 무성음화된 경우, 그리고 유성음 사이의 포만트 주파수 차이에 대한 모델을 생성하여, 음소간의 조음강도가 약한 부분이 합성단위 경계로 설정되도록 하였다. 합성단위 경계가 결정되면 주어진 문장의 문맥정보만을 이용하여 코포스로부터 후보를 선택한다. 선택된 후보를 사이의 연결성을 측정하기 위하여 합성 경계를 기준으로 전, 후 음소에 대한 음성적 특성과 포만트 천이 특성을 고려하였다. 실험은 K-ToBI 레이블링된 200문장을 기반으로 하였으며, 코퍼스로부터 한 문장을 선택하여 이를 목적치 패턴으로 선정 한 후, 목적치 패턴과 후보사이의 단위비용과 후보들 간의 연결비용을 계산하여 최적의 합성단위열을 추출하는 방식으로 이루어졌다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문맥종속 단위 기반의 합성단위 추출 알고리즘과 실험 결과에 대해 보고한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04b
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• pp.357-359
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• 2000

음소 단위로 구축된 음성 데이터는 음성인식, 합성 및 분석 등의 분야에서 매우 중요하다. 일반적으로 음소는 유성음과 무성음으로 구분되어 진다. 이러한 유성음과 무성음은 많은 특징적 차이가 있지만, 기존의 음소 경계추출 알고리즘은 이를 고려하지 않고 시간 축을 기준으로 이전 프레임과 매개변수 (스펙트럼) 비교만을 통하여 음소의 경계를 결정한다. 본 논문에서는 음소 경계 추출을 위하여 유성음과 무성음의 특징적 차이를 고려한 블록기반의 Branch 알고리즘을 설계하였다. Branch 알고리즘을 사용하기 위한 스펙트럼 비교 방법은 MFCC(Mel-Frequency Cepstrum Coefficient)를 기반으로 한 거리 측정법을 사용하였고, 유성음과 무성음의 구분은 포만트 주파수를 이용하였다. 실험 결과 3~4음절 고립단어를 대상으로 약 78%의 정확도를 얻을수 있었다.