• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제24권1E호
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• pp.16-20
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• 2005

A novel scheme to measure the speaker information in speech signal is proposed. We develope the theory of quantitative measurement of the speaker characteristics in the information theoretic point of view, and connect it to the classification error rate. Homomorphic analysis based features, such as mel frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC), linear prediction cepstral coefficient (LPCC), and linear frequency cepstral coefficient (LFCC) are studied to measure speaker specific information contained in those feature sets by computing mutual information. Theories and experimental results provide us quantitative measure of speaker information in speech signal.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.245-246
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• 2006

In this paper, we proposed using MFCC coefficients(Mel-Scaled Cepstral Coefficients) and a simple but efficient classifying method. Many other features: IAV, zero crossing, LPCC, $\ldot$ and their derivatives are also tested and compared with MFCC coefficients in order to find the best combination. GMM and HMM (Discrete and Continuous Hidden Markov Model), are studied as well in the hope that the use of continuous distribution and the temporal evolution of this set of features will improve the quality of emotion recognition.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.129-132
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• 2021

Two feature selection approaches are analyzed in this study. First Approach used in this paper is Filter Approach which comprises of correlation technique. It provides two reduced feature sets using positive and negative correlation. Secondly Approach used in this paper is the wrapper approach which comprises of Sequential Forward Selection technique. The reduced feature set obtained by positive correlation results comprises of Rate of Acceleration, Intensity and Formant. The reduced feature set obtained by positive correlation results comprises of Rasta PLP, Log energy, Log power and Zero Crossing Rate. Pitch, Rate of Acceleration, Log Power, MFCC, LPCC is the reduced feature set yield as a result of Sequential Forwarding Selection.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.12-20
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 깨끗한 환경에서 녹음된 음성데이터와 채널환경에서 수집된 음성데이터의 화자확인 성능을 비교하였다. 채널데이터의 화자확인 성능을 향상시키기 위하여 채널환경에 강인한 특징 파라메타 및 전처리에 대해 연구하였다. 실험을 위한 음성 DB는 어구지시(text-prompted) 시스템을 고려하여 두 자리의 한국어 숫자음으로 구성하였다. 적용한 음성 특징은 LPCC(Linear Predictive Cepstral Coefficient), MFCC(Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient), PLP(Perceptually Linear Prediction), LSP(Line Spectrum Pair)이며, 채널 잡음을 제거하기 위한 전처리 과정으로는 음성신호에 대한 필터링을 적용하였다. 추출된 특징으로부터 채널의 영향을 제거 또는 보상하기 위해 cepstral weighting, CMS(Cepstral Mean Subtraction), RASTA(RelAtive SpecTrAl)를 적용하였다. 또한 각각의 특징 및 처리 방법에 대한 음성인식 성능을 제시함으로써 화자확인에서의 성능과 음성인식에서의 성능을 비교하였다. 적용한 음성 특징 및 처리 방법들에 대한 성능 평가를 위해 HTK(HMM Tool Kit) 2.0을 이용하였다. 남자, 여자 화자별로 임계값을 다르게 주는 방법으로 깨끗한 음성데이터와 채널 데이터에 대한 EER(Equal Error Rate)을 구하여 비교하였다. 실험결과 전처리 과정에서 대역통과 필터(150～3800Hz)를 적용하여 저대역 및 고대역의 채널 잡음을 제거하고, 이 신호로부터 MFCC를 추출하였을 때 EER 측면에서의 화자확인 성능이 가장 좋게 나타났다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.38-43
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• 1996

본 논문에서는 잡음 및 주변 환경에 강인한 것으로 알려져 있는 특징 벡터들을 이용한 인식 성능을 비교하였다. 아울러 스펙트럼 차감법을 적용하여 높은 인식 성능을 얻도록 하였다. 본 논문에서는 환경 변화에 강인한 인식 성능을 얻기 위하여 SMC(Short time Modified Coherence) 분석, 루트(root) 켑스트럼 분석, LDA(Linear Discriminant Analysis), PLP(Perceptual Linear Prediction), RASTA(RelAtive SpecTrAl) 처리 등을 이용하여 인식 실험을 수행하였다. 실험을 위하여 반연속 HMM을 이용한 단독음 인식 시스템을 구현하였고 전시장 및 컴퓨터실의 잡음을 첨가하여 0, 10 및 20dB의 SNR에 대한 인식 실험을 수행하였다. 실험 결과, LPCC(Linear Prediction Cepstral Coefficient)를 이용한 경우에 비하여 SMC나 루트처리를 이용한 멜 켑스트럼(루트_멜 켑스트럼)을 이용한 경우 10dB의 SNR에서 각각 9.86%, 12.68% 향상된 가장 좋은 인식률을 얻었다. 또한 멜 켑스트럼과 루트_멜 켑스트럼을 스펙트럼 차감법과 결합하여 잡음을 제거한 경우 10dB에서 각각 16.7%, 8.4% 향상된 94.91%, 94.28%의 인식률을 얻을 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.76-82
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• 2005

Speech signal has various features of speakers. This feature is extracted from speech signal processing. The speaker is identified by the speaker identification system. In this paper, we propose the speaker identification system that uses the incremental learning based on neural network. Recorded speech signal through the microphone is blocked to the frame of 1024 speech samples. Energy is divided speech signal to voiced signal and unvoiced signal. The extracted 12 orders LPC cpestrum coefficients are used with input data for neural network. The speakers are identified with the speaker identification system using the neural network. The neural network has the structure of MLP which consists of 12 input nodes, 8 hidden nodes, and 4 output nodes. The number of output node means the identified speakers. The first output node is excited to the first speaker. Incremental learning begins when the new speaker is identified. Incremental learning is the learning algorithm that already learned weights are remembered and only the new weights that are created as adding new speaker are trained. It is learning algorithm that overcomes the fault of neural network. The neural network repeats the learning when the new speaker is entered to it. The architecture of neural network is extended with the number of speakers. Therefore, this system can learn without the restricted number of speakers.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.61-74
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 채널 환경에 강인한 화자 인식 시스템을 위하여 문맥과 화자에 종속적인 켑스트럼 추출 방법과 추출된 켑스트럼에서 화자 정보의 손실을 최소화하는 채널 정규화 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 추출 방법은 화자의 고유한 피치를 이용한 피치 동기 분석 방법에 기반을 두어 켑스트럼을 추출한다. 따라서 일명 피치 동기 켑스트럼 (PSC)은 유성음 구간에서 성도의 임펄스 응답을 보다 정확하게 표현할 수 있다. 또한 피치는 채널 환경에서 스펙트럼에 비해 강인하므로 피치 동기 켑스트럼은 채널에 의한 스펙트럼의 왜곡을 보상할 수 있다. 제안된 채널 정규화방법인 포먼트 평활화 피치 동기 켑스트랄 평균 차감법 (FBPSCMS)은 포먼트 평활화 켑스트랄 평균 차감법을 PSC에 적용하여 프레임 내 처리의 정확도를 개선시킨다. 제안된 방법들의 화자 인식 성능을 비교하기 위해 남자 112명과 여자 56명에 대해 WMIT과 전화선 환경의 NTIMIT을 이용한 화자 식별을 수행하였다. 실험 결과 피치 동기 LPCC는 기존 단구간 켑스트럼과 비교하여 에러 감소율을 최대 7.7%까지 향상시켰고, FBPSCMS는 극점 필터링 CMS에 비해 보다 안정되고 낮은 에러율을 나타내었다.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.110-116
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• 2003

Background and Objectives : Laryngeal cancer discrimination using voice signals is a non-invasive method that can carry out the examination rapidly and simply without giving discomfort to the patients. n appropriate analysis parameters and classifiers are developed, this method can be used effectively in various applications including telemedicine. This study examines voice analysis parameters used for laryngeal disease discrimination to help discriminate laryngeal diseases by voice signal analysis. The study also estimates the laryngeal cancer discrimination activity of the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) classifier based on the statistical modelling of voice analysis parameters. Materials and Methods : The Multi-dimensional voice program (MDVP) parameters, which have been widely used for the analysis of laryngeal cancer voice, sometimes fail to analyze the voice of a laryngeal cancer patient whose cycle is seriously damaged. Accordingly, it is necessary to develop a new method that enables an analysis of high reliability for the voice signals that cannot be analyzed by the MDVP. To conduct the experiments of laryngeal cancer discrimination, the authors used three types of voices collected at the Department of Otorhinorlaryngology, Pusan National University Hospital. 50 normal males voice data, 50 voices of males with benign laryngeal diseases and 105 voices of males laryngeal cancer. In addition, the experiment also included 11 voices data of males with laryngeal cancer that cannot be analyzed by the MDVP, Only monosyllabic vowel /a/ was used as voice data. Since there were only 11 voices of laryngeal cancer patients that cannot be analyzed by the MDVP, those voices were used only for discrimination. This study examined the linear predictive cepstral coefficients (LPCC) and the met-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) that are the two major cepstrum analysis methods in the area of acoustic recognition. Results : The results showed that this met frequency scaling process was effective in acoustic recognition but not useful for laryngeal cancer discrimination. Accordingly, the linear frequency cepstral coefficients (LFCC) that excluded the met frequency scaling from the MFCC was introduced. The LFCC showed more excellent discrimination activity rather than the MFCC in predictability of laryngeal cancer. Conclusion : In conclusion, the parameters applied in this study could discriminate accurately even the terminal laryngeal cancer whose periodicity is disturbed. Also it is thought that future studies on various classification algorithms and parameters representing pathophysiology of vocal cords will make it possible to discriminate benign laryngeal diseases as well, in addition to laryngeal cancer.