• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.501-509
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• 2016

We propose a method to improve the robustness of speaker verification on short test utterances. The accuracy of the state-of-the-art i-vector/probabilistic linear discriminant analysis systems can be degraded when testing utterance durations are short. The proposed method compensates for utterance variations of short test feature vectors using deep neural networks. We design three different types of DNN (Deep Neural Network) structures which are trained with different target output vectors. Each DNN is trained to minimize the discrepancy between the feed-forwarded output of a given short utterance feature and its original long utterance feature. We use short 2-10 s condition of the NIST (National Institute of Standards Technology, U.S.) 2008 SRE (Speaker Recognition Evaluation) corpus to evaluate the method. The experimental results show that the proposed method reduces the minimum detection cost relative to the baseline system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.212-215
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 숫자음과 단위음으로 구성된 한국어 연결 단위숫자음 인식의 성능 향상을 위하여 한국어 연결 단위숫자음의 특징을 분석하였다. 한국어의 단위숫자음은 숫자음 한음절과 단위음 한음절로 구성된 두음절의 연속적이고 반복적인 발성으로 나타난다. 숫자음에서의 인식 대상 어휘는 숫자음이라는 제한된 규칙을 갖는 가변 숫자음이다. 따라서 개수, 금액, 단위량, 거래량 등에서 나타날 수 있는 가변 숫자음을 인식하기 위하여 FSN(Finite State Network)을 구성하였다. 음향 모델은 한국어 숫자음과 같이 발성구간이 짧은 어휘의 연결음 (connected word)의 인식에서 효과적인 반음절쌍(demi-syllable pair) 모델을 이용하였다 실험결과, 화자 독립적인 가변 숫자음 60문장의 테스트 데이터에 대해서 문장 인식률 91.0%로 인식 성능을 향상시킬 수 있었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.42-47
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• 2003

This paper proposes the method to generate new test data using the sample shift of the start frame for SPRT(sequential probability ratio test) in speaker verification. The SPRT method is a effective algorithm that can reduce the test computational complexity. However, in making the decision procedure, SPRT can be executed on the assumption that the input samples are usually to be i.i.d. (Independent and Identically Distributed) samples from a probability density function (pdf), also it's not suitable method to apply for the short utterance. The proposed method can achieve SPRT regardless of the utterance length of the test data because it is method to generate the new test data through the sample shift of start frame. Also, the correlation property of data to be considered in the SPRT method can be effectively removed by employing the principal component analysis. Experimental results show that the proposed method increased the computational complexity of data for sample shift a little, but it has a good performance result more than a conventional method above the average 0.7% in EER (equal error rate).