• Speech Sciences
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• v.6
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• pp.163-179
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• 1999

For the set up, management and repair of a mobile communication system, continuous estimation of speech quality is required. Speech quality measurement can be conducted by listener's judgement in a subjective test such as MOS (Mean Opinion Score) test. However, this method is laborious, expensive and time-consuming, it is advisable to predict subjective speech quality via objective measures. This paper presents a robust objective speech quality measure, PLP-CMS (Perceptual Linear Predictive-Cepstral Mean Subtraction), which can predict subjective speech quality in mobile communication systems. PLP-CMS has a high correlation with subjective quality owing to PLP (Perceptual Linear Predictive) analysis and shows a robust performance not being influenced by PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) channel effects due to CMS (Cepstral Mean Subtraction). To prove the performance of our proposed algorithm, we carried out subjective and objective quality estimation on speech samples which are variously distorted in a real mobile communication system. As a result, we demonstrated that PLP-CMS has a higher correlation with subjective quality than PSQM (Perceptual Speech Quality Measure) and PLP-CD (Perceptual Linear Predictive-Cepstral Distance).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.12B
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• pp.2046-2051
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 기존의 음질 평가 방법들보다 우수할 뿐 아니라 다양한 채널 경로의 음성 신호에 대해서도 일관된 성능을 갖는 새로운 음질 평가 방법 PLP-CMS(Perceptual Linear Predictive-Cepstral Mean Subtraction)를 제안한다. CDMA PCS 이동 전화 환경에서 음성 신호의 주관적 음질을 효과적으로 예측할 수 있는 PLP-CMS는 심리 음향 선형 예측 분석(PLP Analysis: Perceptual Linear Predictive Analysis)을 이용하여 주관적 음질과의 상관 관계를 높였으며, 겝스트럼 평균 차감(CMS: Cepstral Mean Subtraction) 과정을 통하여 PSTN 경로에 무관하게 일관된 성능을 갖음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.681-686
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• 2012

This paper studied the speech parameters less affected by the human emotion for the development of the robust emotional speech recognition system. For this purpose, the effect of emotion on the speech recognition system and robust speech parameters of speech recognition system were studied using speech database containing various emotions. In this study, mel-cepstral coefficient, delta-cepstral coefficient, RASTA mel-cepstral coefficient, root-cepstral coefficient, PLP coefficient and frequency warped mel-cepstral coefficient in the vocal tract length normalization method were used as feature parameters. And CMS (Cepstral Mean Subtraction) and SBR(Signal Bias Removal) method were used as a signal bias removal technique. Experimental results showed that the HMM based speaker independent word recognizer using frequency warped RASTA mel-cepstral coefficient in the vocal tract length normalized method, its derivatives and CMS as a signal bias removal showed the best performance.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.57-63
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• 1997

In this paper, we study the efficient feature vector extraction method and front-end processing to improve the performance of the speech recognition system using KT(Korea Telecommunication) database collected through various telephone channels. First of all, we compare the recognition performances of the feature vectors known to be robust to noise and environmental variation and verify the performance enhancement of the recognition system using weighted cepstral distance measure methods. The experiment result shows that the recognition rate is increasedby using both PLP(Perceptual Linear Prediction) and MFCC(Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient) in comparison with LPC cepstrum used in KT recognition system. In cepstral distance measure, the weighted cepstral distance measure functions such as RPS(Root Power Sums) and BPL(Band-Pass Lifter) help the recognition enhancement. The application of the spectral subtraction method decrease the recognition rate because of the effect of distortion. However, RASTA(RelAtive SpecTrAl) processing, CMS(Cepstral Mean Subtraction) and SBR(Signal Bias Removal) enhance the recognition performance. Especially, the CMS method is simple but shows high recognition enhancement. Finally, the performances of the modified methods for the real-time implementation of CMS are compared and the improved method is suggested to prevent the performance degradation.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.655-660
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• 2005

This paper studied the feature parameters less affected by the emotional variation for the development of the robust speech recognition technologies. For this purpose, the effect of emotional variation on the speech recognition system and robust feature parameters of speech recognition system were studied using speech database containing various emotions. In this study, LPC cepstral coefficient, met-cepstral coefficient, root-cepstral coefficient, PLP coefficient, RASTA met-cepstral coefficient were used as a feature parameters. And CMS and SBR method were used as a signal bias removal techniques. Experimental results showed that the HMM based speaker independent word recognizer using RASTA met-cepstral coefficient :md its derivatives and CMS as a signal bias removal showed the best performance of $7.05\%$ word error rate. This corresponds to about a $52\%$ word error reduction as compare to the performance of baseline system using met - cepstral coefficient.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.431-434
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 인간의 감정 변화의 영향을 적게 받는 음성 인식 시스템의 특정 파라메터에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 이를 위하여 우선 다양한 감정이 포함된 음성 데이터베이스를 사용하여 감정 변화가 음성 인식 시스템의 성능에 미치는 영향과 감정 변화의 영향을 적게 받는 특정 파라메터에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 본 연구에서는 LPC 켑스트럼 계수, 멜 켑스트럼 계수, 루트 켑스트럼 계수, PLP 계수와 RASTA 처리를 한 멜 켑스트럼 계수와 음성의 에너지를 사용하였다. 또한 음성에 포함된 편의(bias)를 제거하는 방법으로 CMS 와 SBR 방법을 사용하여 그 성능을 비교하였다. HMM 기반의 화자독립 단어 인식기를 사용한 실험 결과에서 RASTA 멜 켑스트럼과 델타 켑스트럼을 사용하고 신호편의 제거 방법으로 CMS를 사용한 경우에 가장 우수한 성능을 나타내었다. 이러한 것은 멜 켑스트럼을 사용한 기준 시스템과 비교하여 59%정도 오차가 감소된 것이다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.12-20
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• 1999

In this paper, we compared speaker verification performance of the speech data collected in clean environment and in channel environment. For the improvement of the performance of speaker verification gathered in channel, we have studied on the efficient feature parameters in channel environment and on the preprocessing. Speech DB for experiment is consisted of Korean doublet of numbers, considering the text-prompted system. Speech features including LPCC(Linear Predictive Cepstral Coefficient), MFCC(Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient), PLP(Perceptually Linear Prediction), LSP(Line Spectrum Pair) are analyzed. Also, the preprocessing of filtering to remove channel noise is studied. To remove or compensate for the channel effect from the extracted features, cepstral weighting, CMS(Cepstral Mean Subtraction), RASTA(RelAtive SpecTrAl) are applied. Also by presenting the speech recognition performance on each features and the processing, we compared speech recognition performance and speaker verification performance. For the evaluation of the applied speech features and processing methods, HTK(HMM Tool Kit) 2.0 is used. Giving different threshold according to male or female speaker, we compare EER(Equal Error Rate) on the clean speech data and channel data. Our simulation results show that, removing low band and high band channel noise by applying band pass filter(150～3800Hz) in preprocessing procedure, and extracting MFCC from the filtered speech, the best speaker verification performance was achieved from the view point of EER measurement.