• 음성과학
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.129-139
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose two effective energy feature normalization methods for robust speech recognition in noisy environments. In the first method, we estimate the noise energy and remove it from the noisy speech energy. In the second method, we propose a modified algorithm for the Log-energy Dynamic Range Normalization (ERN) method. In the ERN method, the log energy of the training data in a clean environment is transformed into the log energy in noisy environments. If the minimum log energy of the test data is outside of a pre-defined range, the log energy of the test data is also transformed. Since the ERN method has several weaknesses, we propose a modified transform scheme designed to reduce the residual mismatch that it produces. In the evaluation conducted on the Aurora2.0 database, we obtained a significant performance improvement.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제50호
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• pp.85-97
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• 2004

One of the important problems in speech recognition is to accurately detect the existence of speech in adverse environments. The speech detection problem becomes severer when recognition systems are used over the telephone network, especially in a wireless network and a noisy environment. In this paper, we propose a robust speech detection algorithm, which detects speech boundaries accurately by selecting useful bands adaptively to noisy environments. The bands where noises are mainly distributed, so called, noise-centric bands are introduced. In this paper, we compare two different speech detection algorithms with the proposed algorithm, and evaluate them on noisy environments. The experimental results show the excellence of the proposed speech detection algorithm.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.28-34
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• 2003

최근 잡음이 심한 환경에서 음성인식을 신뢰성 있게 하기 위하여 입 모양의 움직임 (영상언어)과 음성을 같이 사용하는 방법이 활발히 연구되고 있다 본 논문에서는 영상언어 인식기의 결과와 음성인식기의 결과에 각각 가중치를 주어 결합하는 방법을 연구하였다. 각각의 인식 결과에 적절한 가중치를 결정하는 방법을 제안하였으며, 특히 음성정보에 들어있는 잡음의 정도와 영상정보의 화질에 따라 자동적으로 가중치를 결정하도록 하였다. 모의 실험 결과 제안된 방법에 의한 결합 인식률이 잡음이 심한 환경에서도 84% 이상의 인식률을 나타내었으며, 영상에 번짐효과가 있는 경우 영상의 번짐 정도를 고려한 결합 방법이 그렇지 않은 경우보다 우수한 인식 성능을 나타내었다.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제62호
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• pp.97-112
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• 2007

The speech recognizer in general operates in noisy acoustical environments. Many research works have been done to cope with the acoustical variations. Among them, the multiple-HMM model approach seems to be quite effective compared with the conventional methods. In this paper, we consider a multiple-model approach combined with the model compensation method and investigate the necessary number of the HMM model sets through noisy speech recognition experiments. By using the data-driven Jacobian adaptation for the model compensation, the multiple-model approach with only a few model sets for each noise type could achieve comparable results with the re-training method.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.443-449
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• 2001

잡음환경에서의 음성인식은 실제의 환경에서의 음성인식에서 매우 중요한 애로기술로써 이를 해결하기 위한 연구는 꾸준히 연구되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 음성인식분야에서 가장 많이 사용하고 있는 HMM처리 시잡음처리의 문제점을 주파수 가중치 부가 HMM으로 해결하는 방법을 제안하고 그 성능을 인식실험을 통하여 검토하였다. 그 결과 SS처리를 함께 사용하는 $MCE-\mu$, MCE-$\rho$가 가장 잡음에 강한 방식임을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제16권8호
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• pp.905-913
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• 2013

잡음에 강건한 음성 인식을 위한 주파수 변이를 이용한 PMC( Parallel Model Compensation Using Frequency-variant, FV-PMC) 방법은 인식시 입력음성에 혼입이 예상되는 잡음들을 평균 주파수 변이도를 임계치로 하여 몇 가지 잡음 군으로 분류한 후 각 잡음 군 별로 인식을 수행하는 방법이다. 이 방법은 기준 임계치를 이용하여 양호하게 분류된 잡음 음성들에 대해서는 매우 우수한 성능을 보이나, 미 분류된 잡음 음성들에 대해서는 기존의 PMC 방법에서와 같이 무잡음 모델과 결합하여 음성 인식을 수행함으로 인해 평균 음성 인식률이 낮아지는 문제점이 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 기존의 방법에서 사용하였던 평균주파수 임계치 방법 대신에 최대 우도를 부가하여 미분류를 방지함으로써 입력 잡음음성에 포함되는 잡음의 군별 잡음 분류 율을 높여 인식률을 제고하는 개선된 주파수 변이 PMC 인식방법을 제안하였다. Aurora 2.0 데이터베이스를 이용한 인식실험결과, 기존의 FV-PMC 방법에 비해 향상된 결과를 확인할 수 있었다.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2008

In this paper, a MSS-NOVO method that combines the HMM composition method with a noise reduction method is proposed for speech recognition in noisy environments. This combined method starts with noise reduction with modified spectral subtraction (MSS) to enhance the input noisy speech, then the noise and voice composition (NOVO) method is applied for making noise adapted models by using the noise in the non-utterance regions of the enhanced noisy speech. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed method, we compare MSS-NOVO method with other methods, i.e., SS-NOVO, MWF-NOVO. To set up the noisy speech for test, we add White noise to KLE 452 database with different SNRs range from 0dB to 15dB, at 5dB intervals. From the tests, MSS-NOVO method shows average improvement of 66.5% and 13.6% compared with the existing SS-NOVO method and MWF-NOVO method, respectively. Especially our proposed MSS-NOVO method shows a big improvement at low SNRs.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2017

The pole filtering concept has been successfully applied to cepstral feature normalization techniques for noise-robust speech recognition. In this paper, it is proposed to apply the pole filtering selectively only to the speech intervals, in order to further improve the recognition performance for short utterances in noisy environments. Experimental results on AURORA 2 task with clean-condition training show that the proposed selectively pole-filtered cepstral mean normalization (SPFCMN) and selectively pole-filtered cepstral mean and variance normalization (SPFCMVN) yield error rate reduction of 38.6% and 45.8%, respectively, compared to the baseline system.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제22권3E호
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• pp.113-123
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• 2003

One of the most important problems in speech recognition is to detect the presence of speech in adverse environments. In other words, the accurate detection of speech boundary is critical to the performance of speech recognition. Furthermore the speech detection problem becomes severer when recognition systems are used over the telephone network, especially wireless network and noisy environment. Therefore this paper describes various speech detection algorithms for continuous digit recognition system used over wire/wireless telephone networks and we propose a algorithm in order to improve the robustness of speech detection using useful band selection under noisy telephone networks. In this paper, we compare some speech detection algorithms with the proposed one, and present experimental results done with various SNRs. The results show that the new algorithm outperforms the other speech detection methods.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제57호
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• pp.113-122
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• 2006

Recently, many studies have been done for speech recognition in noisy environments. Particularly, the Aurora DB has been built as the common database for comparing the various feature extraction schemes. However, in general, the recognition models as well as the features have to be modified for effective noisy speech recognition. As the structure of the HTK is very complex, it is not easy to modify, the recognition engine. In this paper, we implemented a baseline recognizer based on the segmental K-means algorithm whose performance is comparable to the HTK in spite of the simplicity in its implementation.