• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제45호
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• pp.47-61
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• 2003

In this paper, we consider the implementation of connected digit recognition system and the several approaches to improve its performance. To implement efficiently the fixed or variable length digit recognition system, finite state network (FSN) is required. We merge the word network algorithm that implements the FSN with one pass dynamic programming search algorithm that is used for general speech recognition system for fast search. To find the efficient modeling of digit recognition system, we perform some experiments along the various conditions to affect the performance and summarize the results.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1995년도 제12회 음성통신 및 신호처리 워크샵 논문집 (SCAS 12권 1호)
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• pp.69-72
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• 1995

In this paper, a new approach for Korean connected digits recognition using the spatio-temporal neural network is reported. The data of seven digits phone numbers are used in the recognition of connected words, and in the initial experiment, digit recognition rate of 28% was achieved. In this paper, to increase recognition rate, two different approaches are analyzed. In the first system, to compensate the STNN's own defect and to emphasize the Korean word's phonic characters, the starting point of phone is pointed by comparing the average magnitude and zero-crossing rate and the ending point is pointed by comparing only zero-crossing rate. The digit recoginiton rate increased to 61%. Also, in the second system, to consider fact that same word's phone is varied severally, the number of STNN's of each word is increased from one to five, and then the varied same word's phones can be included to the increased STNN's. The digit recogniton rate of connected words increased to 89%.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제44호
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• pp.73-82
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• 2002

Channel distortion degrades the performance of speech recognizer in telephone environment. It mainly results from the bandwidth limitation and variation of transmission channel. Variation of channel characteristics is usually represented as baseline shift in the cepstrum domain. Thus undesirable effect of the channel variation can be removed by subtracting the mean from the cepstrum. In this paper, to improve the recognition performance of Korea connected digit telephone speech, channel compensation methods such as CMN (Cepstral Mean Normalization), RTCN (Real Time Cepatral Normalization), MCMN (Modified CMN) and MRTCN (Modified RTCN) are applied to the static MFCC. Both MCMN and MRTCN are obtained from the CMN and RTCN, respectively, using variance normalization in the cepstrum domain. Using HTK v3.1 system, recognition experiments are performed for Korean connected digit telephone speech database released by SITEC (Speech Information Technology & Industry Promotion Center). Experiments have shown that MRTCN gives the best result with recognition rate of 90.11% for connected digit. This corresponds to the performance improvement over MFCC alone by 1.72%, i.e, error reduction rate of 14.82%.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2003년도 5월 학술대회지
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• pp.131-134
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• 2003

This paper describes an efficient algorithm to generate compact and complete prompts lists for connected spoken digits database. In building a connected spoken digit recognizer, we have to acquire speech data in various contexts. However, in many speech databases the lists are made by using random generators. We provide an efficient algorithm that can generate compact and complete lists of digits in various contexts. This paper includes the proof of optimality and completeness of the algorithm.

• 음성과학
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.45-55
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• 2003

Strange attractor can be used as a presentation method for signal processing. Fractal dimension is well known method that extract features from attractor. Even though the method provides powerful capabilities for speech processing, there is drawback which should be solved in advance. Normally, the size of the raw signal should be long enough for processing if we use the fractal dimension method. However, in the area of connected-digits problem, normally, syllable or semi-syllable based processing is applied. In this case, there is no evidence that we have sufficient data or not to extract characteristics of attractor. This paper discusses the relationship between the size of the signal data and the calculation result of fractal dimension, and also discusses the efficient way to be applied to connected-digit recognition.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제15권3E호
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• pp.31-36
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• 1996

In this paper, a two-stage recognition approach based on error pattern hypotheses is proposed to reduce errors of a connected digit recognizer. In the approach, a conventional recognizer is first used to produce N-best candidate strings, and then error patterns are hypothesized by examining the candidate strings. For substitution error pattern hypotheses, error-pattern-dependent classifiers having more discriminative power than the first-stage classifier are used ; and for insertion and deletion errors, word duration and energy contour information are exploited are exploited to discriminated confusing pairs. Simulation results showed that the proposed approach achieves 15% decrease in word error rate for speaker-independent Korean connected digit recognition when a hidden Markov model-based recognizer is used for the first-stage classifier.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.58-62
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 한국어 연결숫자인식에 있어서 모델간의 변별력을 향상시키기 위하여 음향학적 파라메터(Acoustic Parameter)를 사용하는 것을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 음성학적 지식에 근거하여 적절한 주파수 대역별 에너지의 비의 로그값을 추가적인 특징 파라메터로 사용한다. 실험결과, 제안된 방법을 사용함으로써 기본 인식시스템에 비해 오류율이 최고 46% 정도 감소됨을 확인할 수 있었다. 그리고 채널보상 기술을 함께 적용함으로써 69% 정도의 오류율 감소를 얻었다.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2003년도 10월 학술대회지
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• pp.145-148
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• 2003

To improve the recognition performance of Korean connected digit telephone speech, in this paper, both Aurora feature extraction method that employs noise reduction 2-state Wiener filter and DWFBA method are investigated and used. CMN and MRTCN are applied to static features for channel compensation. Telephone digit speech database released by SITEC is used for recognition experiments with HTK system. Experimental results has shown that Aurora feature is slightly better than MFCC and DWFBA without channel compensation. And when channel compensation is included, Aurora feature is slightly better than DWFBA with MRTCN.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제23권8호
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• pp.590-596
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 한국어 연결 숫자음 인식을 위한 최대 사후 eigenvoice을 사용한 자기적응 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 최대 사후 eigenvoice 기법은 eigenvoice 계수에 대한 확률 밀도 함수를 가정함으로 구성된다. 제안된 알고리즘은 기존 eigenvoice 추정 과정에 선 분포 모델을 포함하는 일반적인 해를 제공하는 구조를 갖는다. 인식할 한 문장만을 사용하는 자기 적응 시스템을 위해 매우 강인한 특성을 갖는 최대 사후 eigenvoice 적응 기법을 사용하였다. 한국어 연결 숫자음에 대한 일련의 자기 적응 실험결과 제안된 알고리즘의 성능은 매우 적은 량의 적응 데이터에 대해 기존 eigenvoice 알고리즘에 비해 우수한 성능을 나타냈었다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.187-191
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• 2004

연결 단어 인식기, 특히 연결 숫자음 인식기를 제작하기 위한 음성 데이터베이스를 구축하는데 있어서 완전하고 효율적인 발성목록을 작성하기 위한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기존의 음성 DB에서 사용되는 목록은 주로 난수 발생기에 의하여 만들어지거나 사용자의 전화번호, 우편번호 등을 이용하여 만들어져 왔으므로 다양한 환경의 음소 또는 단어를 균일하게 포함하고 있지 못하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 하나의 단어에 대하여 전후에 모든 단어가 연결되는 조합을 모두 한번씩 포함하는 목록을 만드는 효율적인 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 알고리즘으로 7연 숫자 목록을 만들면 200개의 문장으로 모든 조합을 포함할 수 있게 된다. 본 논문에서는 알고리즘 예제와 본 알고리즘의 완전성과 효율성에 대하여 기술하였다.