• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.201-207
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• 2013

Voice Recognition technique has been developed and it has been actively applied to various information devices such as smart phones and car navigation system. But the basic research technique related the speech recognition is based on research results in English. Since the lip sync producing generally requires tedious hand work of animators and it serious affects the animation producing cost and development period to get a high quality lip animation. In this research, a real time processed automatic lip sync algorithm for virtual characters in digital contents is studied by considering Korean vocal sound system. This suggested algorithm contributes to produce a natural lip animation with the lower producing cost and the shorter development period.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.17-27
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• 2018

We propose a new approach to control a biped robot motion based on iterative learning of voice command for the implementation of smart factory. The real-time processing of speech signal is very important for high-speed and precise automatic voice recognition technology. Recently, voice recognition is being used for intelligent robot control, artificial life, wireless communication and IoT application. In order to extract valuable information from the speech signal, make decisions on the process, and obtain results, the data needs to be manipulated and analyzed. Basic method used for extracting the features of the voice signal is to find the Mel frequency cepstral coefficients. Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients are the coefficients that collectively represent the short-term power spectrum of a sound, based on a linear cosine transform of a log power spectrum on a nonlinear mel scale of frequency. The reliability of voice command to control of the biped robot's motion is illustrated by computer simulation and experiment for biped walking robot with 24 joint.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.69-75
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• 2021

In a contact-free society, online services are becoming more important than classic offline services. At the same time, the role of a contact center, which executes customer relation management (CRM), is increasingly essential. For supporting the CRM tasks and their effectiveness, techniques of process automation need to be applied. Quality assurance (QA) is one of the time and resource consuming, and typical processes that are suitable for automation. In this paper, a method of automatic quality evaluation for voice based consultations is proposed. Firstly, the speech in consultations is transformed into a text by speech recognition. Then quantitative evaluation based on the QA metrics, including checking the elements in opening and closing mention, the existence of asking the mandatory information, the attitude of listening and speaking, is executed. 92.7% of the automated evaluations are the same to the result done by human experts. It was found that the non matching cases of the automated evaluations were mainly caused from the mistranslated Speech-to-Text (STT) result. With the confidence of STT result, this proposed method can be employed for enhancing the efficiency of QA process in contact centers.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2021.10a
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• pp.178-185
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• 2021

Sequence to sequence(S2S) 기반 음성인식 후처리기를 훈련하기 위한 학습 데이터 구축을 위해 (음성인식 결과(speech recognition sentence), 전사자(phonetic transcriptor)가 수정한 문장(Human post edit sentence))의 병렬 말뭉치가 필요하며 이를 위해 많은 노동력(human-labor)이 소요된다. BackTranScription (BTS)이란 기존 S2S기반 음성인식 후처리기의 한계점을 완화하기 위해 제안된 데이터 구축 방법론이며 Text-To-Speech(TTS)와 Speech-To-Text(STT) 기술을 결합하여 pseudo 병렬 말뭉치를 생성하는 기술을 의미한다. 해당 방법론은 전사자의 역할을 없애고 방대한 양의 학습 데이터를 자동으로 생성할 수 있기에 데이터 구축에 있어서 시간과 비용을 단축 할 수 있다. 본 논문은 BTS를 바탕으로 제주어 도메인에 특화된 음성인식 후처리기의 성능을 향상시키기 위하여 모델 수정(model modification)을 통해 성능을 향상시키는 모델 중심 접근(model-centric) 방법론과 모델 수정 없이 데이터의 양과 질을 고려하여 성능을 향상시키는 데이터 중심 접근(data-centric) 방법론에 대한 비교 분석을 진행하였다. 실험결과 모델 교정없이 데이터 중심 접근 방법론을 적용하는 것이 성능 향상에 더 도움이 됨을 알 수 있었으며 모델 중심 접근 방법론의 부정적 측면 (negative result)에 대해서 분석을 진행하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.386-391
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• 2008

Some spoken word errors that violate grammatical or writing rules occurs frequently in communication environments like mobile phone and messenger. These unexpected errors cause a problem in a language processing system for many applications like speech recognition, text-to-speech translation, and so on. In this paper, we proposed and implemented an automatic correction system of ill-formed words and word spacing errors in SMS sentences that has been the major errors of poor accuracy. We experimented three methods of constructing the word correction dictionary and evaluated the results of those methods. They are (1) manual construction of error words from the vocabulary list of ill-formed communication languages, (2) automatic construction of error dictionary from the manually constructed corpus, and (3) context-dependent method of automatic construction of error dictionary.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.768-774
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• 2008

In many areas of speech signal processing such as automatic speech recognition and packet based voice communication technique, VAD (voice activity detection) plays an important role in the performance of the overall system. In this paper, we present a new feature parameter for VAD which is the product of energy of the signal and the difference of two types of entropies. For this end, we first define a Mel filter-bank based entropy and calculate its difference from the conventional entropy in frequency domain. The difference is then multiplied by the spectral energy of the signal to yield the final feature parameter which we call PEED (product of energy and entropy difference). Through experiments. we could verify that the proposed VAD parameter is more efficient than the conventional spectral entropy based parameter in various SNRs and noisy environments.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.83-88
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• 2003

This study carried out an experimental English pronunciation assessment to see the differences in the relationship between the different rater categories. The result shows that i) correlation between Korean and Native American raters is high(r=.98) enough to be considered reliable, ii) previous instructions about assessment rubric and the knowledge about English phonetics and phonology exert little influence on the rating scores, iii) correlation between the automatic ILT(Interactive Language Tutor) rating using speech recognition technology and Natives' rating is stronger than that between ILT and Koreans' rating.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.63-66
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• 2006

음성인식시스템은 사람이 별도의 장비 없이 음성만으로 시스템의 사용이 가능한 편리한 장점을 지니고 있으나 여러 가지 기술적인 어려움과 실제 환경의 낮은 인식률로 폭넓게 사용되지 못한 상황이다. 그 중 배경잡음은 음성인식의 인식률을 저하시키는 원인으로 지적 받고 있다. 이러한 잡음환경에 있는 ASR(Automatic Speech Recognition)의 성능 향상을 위해 외측억제 기능 이 추가된 파라미터를 제안한다. ASR 에서 널리 사용되는 파라미터인 MFCC을 본 논문에서 제안한 파라미터와 HMM를 이용하여 인식률을 비교하여 성능을 비교하였다. 실험결과를 통해 제안된 파라미터의 사용을 통해 잡음환경에 있는 ASR의 성능 향상을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.608-612
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• 2022

딥러닝의 발전 이후, 다양한 분야에서는 딥러닝을 이용해 이전에 어려웠던 작업들을 해결하여 사용자에게 편의성을 제공하고 있다. 하지만 아직 딥러닝을 통해 이상적인 서비스를 제공하는 데는 어려움이 있다. 특히, 음성 인식 작업에서 음성 양식에서 이용 방안에 대하여 다양성을 제공해주는 음성을 텍스트로 전환하는 Speech-To-Text(STT)은 문장 결과가 이상치에 달하지 못해 오류가 나타나게 된다. 본 논문에서는 STT 결과 보정을 문법 교정으로 치환하여 종단에서 올바른 토큰들을 조합하여 성능 향상을 하기 위해 각 토큰 별 품질 평가를 진행하는 모델을 한국어에서 적용하고 성능의 향상을 확인한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.248-252
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• 2004

Cultural, social, economic and other various environmental factors affect our language and different words and terminology are used and coined for different contexts, resulting in quantitative change of vocabulary. This paper presents an automatic pronunciation generator using selection procedure for exceptional pronunciation words from added text corpus, which reflects this dynamic nature of language. For our experiment, we used the text corpus released by ETRI for speech recognition. consisting or 53,750 sentences (740.497 Eojols), and obtained a 100% performance level of the proposed automatic pronunciation generator.