• ETRI Journal
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• v.42 no.5
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• pp.761-772
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• 2020

This paper presents an automatic proficiency assessment method for a non-native Korean read utterance using bidirectional long short-term memory (BLSTM)-based acoustic models (AMs) and speech data augmentation techniques. Specifically, the proposed method considers two scenarios, with and without prompted text. The proposed method with the prompted text performs (a) a speech feature extraction step, (b) a forced-alignment step using a native AM and non-native AM, and (c) a linear regression-based proficiency scoring step for the five proficiency scores. Meanwhile, the proposed method without the prompted text additionally performs Korean speech recognition and a subword un-segmentation for the missing text. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method with prompted text improves the performance for all scores when compared to a method employing conventional AMs. In addition, the proposed method without the prompted text has a fluency score performance comparable to that of the method with prompted text.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.209-214
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• 2018

Today is the era of artificial intelligence. With the development of artificial intelligence, machines have begun to impersonate various human characteristics today. Chatbot is one instance of this interactive artificial intelligence. Chatbot is a computer program that enables to conduct natural conversations with people. As mentioned above, Chatbot conducted conversations in text, but Chatbot, in this study evolves to perform commands based on speech-recognition. In order for Chatbot to perfectly emulate a human dialogue, it is necessary to analyze the sentence correctly and extract appropriate response. To accomplish this, the sentence is classified into three types: objects, actions, and preferences. This study shows how objects is analyzed and processed, and also demonstrates the possibility of evolving from an elementary model to an advanced intelligent system. By this study, it will be evaluated that speech-recognition based Chatbot have improved order-processing time efficiency compared to text based Chatbot. Once this study is done, speech-recognition based Chatbot have the potential to automate customer service and reduce human effort.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.476-490
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• 2022

With the recent advances in technology, automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been widely used in real-world applications. The efficiency of converting large amounts of speech into text accurately with limited resources has become more vital than ever. In this study, we propose a method to rapidly recognize a large speech database via a transformer-based end-to-end model. Transformers have improved the state-of-the-art performance in many fields. However, they are not easy to use for long sequences. In this study, various techniques to accelerate the recognition of real-world speeches are proposed and tested, including decoding via multiple-utterance-batched beam search, detecting end of speech based on a connectionist temporal classification (CTC), restricting the CTC-prefix score, and splitting long speeches into short segments. Experiments are conducted with the Librispeech dataset and the real-world Korean ASR tasks to verify the proposed methods. From the experiments, the proposed system can convert 8 h of speeches spoken at real-world meetings into text in less than 3 min with a 10.73% character error rate, which is 27.1% relatively lower than that of conventional systems.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2021.08a
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• pp.327-333
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• 2021

Currently development of the Artificial Intelligence technology is rapidly progressing in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The government is trying to improve the education of Artificial Intelligence and cultivating human resources. However there are very few cases where A.I technology is actually used in public education classes. Therefore we designed a text repository by implementing A.I speech recognition to provide career counseling for elementary school students. In the meantime, there have been many difficulties in giving advance consultations required for students' career counseling. In this study we suggested A.I speech recognition technology which can solve addressed problem and we planned various ways to make the program more educational. To conclude we expect A.I technology implemented in this study provides effective solution to career counseling.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.69-74
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• 2022

SNN (Spiking Neural Network) operating in neuromorphic architecture was created by mimicking human neural networks. Neuromorphic computing based on neuromorphic architecture requires relatively lower power than typical deep learning techniques based on GPUs. For this reason, research to support various artificial intelligence models using neuromorphic architecture is actively taking place. This paper conducted a performance analysis of the speech recognition model based on neuromorphic architecture according to the speech data preprocessing technique. As a result of the experiment, it showed up to 84% of speech recognition accuracy performance when preprocessing speech data using the Fourier transform. Therefore, it was confirmed that the speech recognition service based on the neuromorphic architecture can be effectively utilized.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.79-85
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• 2021

Speech recognition technology refers to a technology in which a computer interprets the speech language spoken by a person and converts the contents into text data. This technology has recently been combined with artificial intelligence and has been used in various fields such as smartphones, set-top boxes, and smart TVs. Examples include Google Assistant, Google Home, Samsung's Bixby, Apple's Siri and SK's NUGU. Google and Daum Kakao offer free open APIs for speech recognition technologies. This paper selects three APIs that are free to use by ordinary users, and compares each recognition rate according to the three types. First, the recognition rate of "numbers" and secondly, the recognition rate of "Ga Na Da Hangul" are conducted, and finally, the experiment is conducted with the complete sentence that the author uses the most. All experiments use real voice as input through a computer microphone. Through the three experiments and results, we hope that the general public will be able to identify differences in recognition rates according to the applications currently available, helping to select APIs suitable for specific application purposes.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2024.05a
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• pp.774-776
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• 2024

The effective implementation of advanced speech recognition (ASR) systems necessitates the deployment of sophisticated keyword spotting models that are both responsive and resource-efficient. The initial local detection of user interactions is crucial as it allows for the selective transmission of audio data to cloud services, thereby reducing operational costs and mitigating privacy risks associated with continuous data streaming. In this paper, we address these needs and propose utilizing the Whisper-Tiny model with fine-tuning process to specifically recognize keywords from google speech dataset which includes 65000 audio clips of keyword commands. By adapting the model's encoder and appending a lightweight classification head, we ensure that it operates within the limited resource constraints of local devices. The proposed model achieves the notable test accuracy of 92.94%. This architecture demonstrates the efficiency as on-device model with stringent resources leading to enhanced accessibility in everyday speech recognition applications.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.55-61
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• 2019

In order to realize foreign language education, various existing educational media have been provided, but there are disadvantages in that the cost of the parish and the media program is high and the real-time responsiveness is poor. In this paper, we propose an artificial intelligence English conversation system based on VR and speech recognition. We used Google CardBoard VR and Google Speech API to build the system and developed artificial intelligence algorithms for providing virtual reality environment and talking. In the proposed speech recognition server system, the sentences spoken by the user can be divided into word units and compared with the data words stored in the database to provide the highest probability. Users can communicate with and respond to people in virtual reality. The function provided by the conversation is independent of the contextual conversations and themes, and the conversations with the AI assistant are implemented in real time so that the user system can be checked in real time. It is expected to contribute to the expansion of virtual education contents service related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution through the system combining the virtual reality and the voice recognition function proposed in this paper.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.63-71
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• 2020

Speech recognition is one of the areas actively commercialized using deep learning and machine learning techniques. However, the majority of speech recognition systems on the market are developed on data with limited diversity of speakers and tend to perform well on typical adult speakers only. This is because most of the speech recognition models are generally learned using a speech database obtained from adult males and females. This tends to cause problems in recognizing the speech of the elderly, children and people with dialects well. To solve these problems, it may be necessary to retain big database or to collect a data for applying a speaker adaptation. However, this paper proposes that a new end-to-end speech recognition method consists of an acoustic augmented recurrent encoder and a transformer decoder with linguistic prediction. The proposed method can bring about the reliable performance of acoustic and language models in limited data conditions. The proposed method was evaluated to recognize Korean elderly and children speech with limited amount of training data and showed the better performance compared of a conventional method.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2023.10a
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• pp.39-43
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• 2023

자동 음성 인식(Automatic Speech Recognition, ASR)은 컴퓨터가 인간의 음성을 텍스트로 변환하는 기술이다. 자동 음성 인식 시스템은 다양한 응용 분야에서 사용되며, 음성 명령 및 제어, 음성 검색, 텍스트 트랜스크립션, 자동 음성 번역 등 다양한 작업을 목적으로 한다. 자동 음성 인식의 노력에도 불구하고 노인 음성 인식(Elderly Speech Recognition, ESR)에 대한 어려움은 줄어들지 않고 있다. 본 연구는 노인 음성 인식에 콘포머(Conformer)와 피쳐 퓨전 모듈(Features Fusion Module, FFM)기반 노인 음성 인식 모델을 제안한다. 학습, 평가는 VOTE400(Voide Of The Elderly 400 Hours) 데이터셋으로 한다. 본 연구는 그동안 잘 이뤄지지 않았던 콘포머와 퓨전피쳐를 사용해 노인 음성 인식을 위한 딥러닝 모델을 제시하였다는데 큰 의미가 있다. 또한 콘포머 모델보다 높은 수준의 정확도를 보임으로써 노인 음성 인식을 위한 딥러닝 모델 연구에 기여했다.