• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2002년도 11월 학술대회지
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• pp.41-44
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• 2002

This paper is related to the enhancement of speech recognition rate using enhanced pronunciation dictionary. Modern large vocabulary, continuous speech recognition systems have pronunciation dictionaries. A pronunciation dictionary provides pronunciation information for each word in the vocabulary in phonemic units, which are modeled in detail by the acoustic models. But in most speech recognition system based on Hidden Markov Model, actual pronunciation variations are disregarded. Without the pronunciation variations in the speech recognition system, the phonetic transcriptions in the dictionary do not match the actual occurrences in the database. In this paper, we proposed the unvoiced rule of semivowel in allophone rules to pronunciation dictionary. Experimental results on speech recognition system give higher performance than existing pronunciation dictionaries.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.53-60
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• 1999

이 논문은 한국 방송 음성 인식에 관한 연구이다. 여기서 우리는 대규모 어휘를 갖는 연속 음성 인식을 위한 방법을 제시한다. 주요 관점은 언어 모델과 탐색 방법이다. 사용된 음성 모델은 기본음소 Semi-continuous HMM이고 언어 모델은 N-gram 방법이다. 탐색 방법은 음성과 언어 정보를 최대한 활용하기 위해 3단계의 방법을 사용하였다. 첫째로, 단어의 끝 부분과 그에 관련된 정보를 만들기 위한 순방향 Viterbi Beam탐색을 하였으며, 둘째로 단어 의 시작 부분과 그에 관련된 정보를 만드는 역방향 Viterbi Beam탐색, 그리고 마지막으로 이들 두 결과와 확률적인 언어 모델을 결합하여 최종 인식결과를 얻기 위해 A/sup */ 탐색을 한다. 이 방법을 사용하여 12,000개의 단어에 대한 화자 독립으로 최고 96.0%의 단어 인식률과 99.2%의 음절 인식률을 얻었다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.41-46
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 자바를 사용하여 연속분포 HMM 알고리즘과 Browser-embedded 모델로 음성인식시스템을 구현하였다. 이 시스템은 웹상에서 음성분석, 처리, 인식과정을 실행할 수 있도록 설계되었으며, 클라이언트에서는 자바애플릿을 이용하여 음성의 끝점검출과 MFCC와 에너지 그리고 델타계수들을 추출하여 소켓을 통해 서버로 전송하고, 서버는 HMM 인식기와 학습DB를 이용하여 인식을 수행하고 인식된 결과는 클라이언트에 전송되어 문자로 출력되어진다. 또한 이 시스템은 플랫폼에 독립적인 시스템으로 네트웍상에서 구축되었기 때문에 높은 에러율을 갖고 있지만 멀티미디어 분야에 접목시켰다는 의의와 향후에 새로운 정보통신 서비스가 될 가능성이 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.101-109
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• 2006

It has been known that there is strong relationship between human voices and the movements of the articulatory facial muscles. In this paper, we utilize this knowledge to implement an automatic speech recognition scheme which uses solely surface electromyogram (EMG) signals. The EMG signals were acquired from three articulatory facial muscles. Preliminary, 10 Korean digits were used as recognition variables. The various feature parameters including filter bank outputs, linear predictive coefficients and cepstrum coefficients were evaluated to find the appropriate parameters for EMG-based speech recognition. The sequence of the EMG signals for each word is modelled by a hidden Markov model (HMM) framework. A continuous word recognition approach was investigated in this work. Hence, the model for each word is obtained by concatenating the subword models and the embedded re-estimation techniques were employed in the training stage. The findings indicate that such a system may have a capacity to recognize speech signals with an accuracy of up to 90%, in case when mel-filter bank output was used as the feature parameters for recognition.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.981-984
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• 2010

우리는 본 연구에서 학습방법으로서 연속음성을 초성, 중성, 종성의 음소단위로 분할하기 위하여 인공 신경회로망의 하나인 SVMs을 사용하였으며 분할한 음소단위의 음성으로 연속음성인식에 적용하여 그 성능을 살펴보았다. 음소경계는 단 구간에서의 최대 주파수를 가진 알고리듬에 의하여 결정되며 또한 음성인식처리는 CHMM에 의하여 이루어지며 목측에 의한 분할결과와도 비교하여 살펴보았다. 시뮬레이션 결과로부터 초성의 분할성능에서 제안한 SVMs를 적용한 결과가 GMMs보다 효율적인을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제49호
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• pp.107-121
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• 2004

In this paper, we describe a cross-morpheme pronunciation variation model which is especially useful for constructing morpheme-based pronunciation lexicon to improve the performance of a Korean LVCSR. There are a lot of pronunciation variations occurring at morpheme boundaries in continuous speech. Since phonemic context together with morphological category and morpheme boundary information affect Korean pronunciation variations, we have distinguished phonological rules that can be applied to phonemes in within-morpheme and cross-morpheme. The results of 33K-morpheme Korean CSR experiments show that an absolute reduction of 1.45% in WER from the baseline performance of 18.42% WER was achieved by modeling proposed pronunciation variations with a possible multiple context-dependent pronunciation lexicon.

• 음성과학
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.251-261
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• 2003

There has been many research efforts to overcome the problems of speech recognition in noisy conditions. Among the noise-robust speech recognition methods, model-based adaptation approaches have been shown quite effective. Particularly, the PMC (parallel model combination) method is very popular and has been shown to give considerably improved recognition results compared with the conventional methods. In this paper, we experimented with the VTS (vector Taylor series) algorithm which is also based on the model parameter transformation but has not attracted much interests of the researchers in this area. To verify the effectiveness of it, we employed the algorithm in the continuous density HMM (Hidden Markov Model). We compared the performance of the VTS algorithm with the PMC method and could see that the it gave better results than the PMC method.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제67호
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• pp.181-193
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a vocabulary coverage improvement method for embedded continuous speech recognition (CSR) using a part-of-speech (POS) tagged corpus. We investigate 152 POS tags defined in Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen (LOB) corpus and word-POS tag pairs. We derive a new vocabulary through word addition. Words paired with some POS tags have to be included in vocabularies with any size, but the vocabulary inclusion of words paired with other POS tags varies based on the target size of vocabulary. The 152 POS tags are categorized according to whether the word addition is dependent of the size of the vocabulary. Using expert knowledge, we classify POS tags first, and then apply different ways of word addition based on the POS tags paired with the words. The performance of the proposed method is measured in terms of coverage and is compared with those of vocabularies with the same size (5,000 words) derived from frequency lists. The coverage of the proposed method is measured as 95.18% for the test short message service (SMS) text corpus, while those of the conventional vocabularies cover only 93.19% and 91.82% of words appeared in the same SMS text corpus.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제40권5호
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• pp.439-451
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 실제 환경에서의 연속 음성 강화를 위한 딥러닝 기반 온라인 빔포밍 알고리듬과 스펙트럼 감산을 결합한 빔포머를 제안한다. 기존 빔포밍 시스템은 컴퓨터에서 음성과 잡음을 완전히 겹친 방식으로 혼합하여 생성된 사전 분할 오디오 신호를 사용하여 대부분 평가되었다. 하지만 실제 환경에서는 시간 축으로 음성 발화가 띄엄띄엄 발성되기 때문에, 음성이 없는 잡음 신호가 시스템에 입력되면 기존 빔포밍 알고리듬의 성능이 저하된다. 이러한 효과를 경감하기 위하여, 심층 학습 기반 온라인 빔포밍 알고리듬과 스펙트럼 감산을 결합하였다. 잡음 환경에서 온라인 빔포밍 알고리듬을 평가하기 위해 연속 음성 강화 세트를 구성하였다. 평가 세트는 CHiME3 평가 세트에서 추출한 음성 발화와 CHiME3 배경 잡음 및 MUSDB에서 추출한 연속 재생되는 배경음악을 혼합하여 구성되었다. 음성인식기로는 Kaldi 기반 툴킷 및 구글 웹 음성인식기를 사용하였다. 제안한 온라인 빔포밍 알고리듬 과 스펙트럼 감산이 베이스라인 빔포밍 알고리듬에 비해 성능 향상을 보임을 확인하였다.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 1996년도 10월 학술대회지
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• pp.472-472
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• 1996

The material of database for speech recognition should include phonetic phenomena as much as possible. At the same time, such material should be phonetically compact with low redundancy[1, 2]. The phonetic phenomena in continuous speech is the key problem in speech recognition. This paper describes the processing of a set of sentences collected from the database of 1993 and 1994 "People's Daily"(Chinese newspaper) which consist of news, politics, economics, arts, sports etc.. In those sentences, both phonetic phenometla and sentence patterns are included. In continuous speech, phonemes always appear in the form of allophones which result in the co-articulary effects. The task of designing a speech database should be concerned with both intra-syllabic and inter-syllabic allophone structures. In our experiments, there are 404 syllables, 415 inter-syllabic diphones, 3050 merged inter-syllabic triphones and 2161 merged final-initial structures in read speech. Statistics on the database from "People's Daily" gives and evaluation to all of the possible phonetic structures. In this sentence set, we first consider the phonetic balances among syllables, inter-syllabic diphones, inter-syllabic triphones and semi-syllables with their junctures. The syllabic balances ensure the intra-syllabic phenomena such as phonemes, initial/final and consonant/vowel. the rest describes the inter-syllabic jucture. The 1560 sentences consist of 96% syllables without tones(the absent syllables are only used in spoken language), 100% inter-syllabic diphones, 67% inter-syllabic triphones(87% of which appears in Peoples' Daily). There are rougWy 17 kinds of sentence patterns which appear in our sentence set. By taking the transitions between syllables into account, the Chinese speech recognition systems have gotten significantly high recognition rates[3, 4]. The following figure shows the process of collecting sentences. [people's Daily Database] -> [segmentation of sentences] -> [segmentation of word group] -> [translate the text in to Pin Yin] -> [statistic phonetic phenomena & select useful paragraph] -> [modify the selected sentences by hand] -> [phonetic compact sentence set]