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Voice Recognition Performance Improvement using the Convergence of Voice signal Feature and Silence Feature Normalization in Cepstrum Feature Distribution (음성 신호 특징과 셉스트럽 특징 분포에서 묵음 특징 정규화를 융합한 음성 인식 성능 향상)

  • Hwang, Jae-Cheon
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.13-17
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    • 2017
  • Existing Speech feature extracting method in speech Signal, there are incorrect recognition rates due to incorrect speech which is not clear threshold value. In this article, the modeling method for improving speech recognition performance that combines the feature extraction for speech and silence characteristics normalized to the non-speech. The proposed method is minimized the noise affect, and speech recognition model are convergence of speech signal feature extraction to each speech frame and the silence feature normalization. Also, this method create the original speech signal with energy spectrum similar to entropy, therefore speech noise effects are to receive less of the noise. the performance values are improved in signal to noise ration by the silence feature normalization. We fixed speech and non speech classification standard value in cepstrum For th Performance analysis of the method presented in this paper is showed by comparing the results with CHMM HMM, the recognition rate was improved 2.7%p in the speech dependent and advanced 0.7%p in the speech independent.

FPGA-Based Hardware Accelerator for Feature Extraction in Automatic Speech Recognition

  • Choo, Chang;Chang, Young-Uk;Moon, Il-Young
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.145-151
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    • 2015
  • We describe in this paper a hardware-based improvement scheme of a real-time automatic speech recognition (ASR) system with respect to speed by designing a parallel feature extraction algorithm on a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). A computationally intensive block in the algorithm is identified implemented in hardware logic on the FPGA. One such block is mel-frequency cepstrum coefficient (MFCC) algorithm used for feature extraction process. We demonstrate that the FPGA platform may perform efficient feature extraction computation in the speech recognition system as compared to the generalpurpose CPU including the ARM processor. The Xilinx Zynq-7000 System on Chip (SoC) platform is used for the MFCC implementation. From this implementation described in this paper, we confirmed that the FPGA platform is approximately 500× faster than a sequential CPU implementation and 60× faster than a sequential ARM implementation. We thus verified that a parallelized and optimized MFCC architecture on the FPGA platform may significantly improve the execution time of an ASR system, compared to the CPU and ARM platforms.

Feature Parameter Extraction and Analysis in the Wavelet Domain for Discrimination of Music and Speech (음악과 음성 판별을 위한 웨이브렛 영역에서의 특징 파라미터)

  • Kim, Jung-Min;Bae, Keun-Sung
    • MALSORI
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    • no.61
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    • pp.63-74
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    • 2007
  • Discrimination of music and speech from the multimedia signal is an important task in audio coding and broadcast monitoring systems. This paper deals with the problem of feature parameter extraction for discrimination of music and speech. The wavelet transform is a multi-resolution analysis method that is useful for analysis of temporal and spectral properties of non-stationary signals such as speech and audio signals. We propose new feature parameters extracted from the wavelet transformed signal for discrimination of music and speech. First, wavelet coefficients are obtained on the frame-by-frame basis. The analysis frame size is set to 20 ms. A parameter $E_{sum}$ is then defined by adding the difference of magnitude between adjacent wavelet coefficients in each scale. The maximum and minimum values of $E_{sum}$ for period of 2 seconds, which corresponds to the discrimination duration, are used as feature parameters for discrimination of music and speech. To evaluate the performance of the proposed feature parameters for music and speech discrimination, the accuracy of music and speech discrimination is measured for various types of music and speech signals. In the experiment every 2-second data is discriminated as music or speech, and about 93% of music and speech segments have been successfully detected.

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Method of Speech Feature Parameter Extraction Using Modified-MFCC (Modified-MECC를 이용한 음성 특징 파라미터 추출 방법)

  • 이상복;이철희;정성환;김종교
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2001.06d
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    • pp.269-272
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    • 2001
  • In speech recognition technology, the utterance of every talker have special resonant frequency according to shape of talker's lip and to the motion of tongue. And utterances are different according to each talker. Accordingly, we need the superior moth-od of speech feature parameter extraction which reflect talker's characteristic well. This paper suggests the modified-MfCC combined existing MFCC with gammatone filter. We experimented with speech data from telephone and then we obtained results of enhanced speech recognition rate which is higher than that of the other methods.

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Speech Recognition Optimization Learning Model using HMM Feature Extraction In the Bhattacharyya Algorithm (바타차랴 알고리즘에서 HMM 특징 추출을 이용한 음성 인식 최적 학습 모델)

  • Oh, Sang-Yeob
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.199-204
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    • 2013
  • Speech recognition system is shall be composed model of learning from the inaccurate input speech. Similar phoneme models to recognize, because it leads to the recognition rate decreases. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a method of speech recognition optimal learning model configuration using the Bhattacharyya algorithm. Based on feature of the phonemes, HMM feature extraction method was used for the phonemes in the training data. Similar learning model was recognized as a model of exact learning using the Bhattacharyya algorithm. Optimal learning model configuration using the Bhattacharyya algorithm. Recognition performance was evaluated. In this paper, the result of applying the proposed system showed a recognition rate of 98.7% in the speech recognition.

Selective Speech Feature Extraction using Channel Similarity in CHMM Vocabulary Recognition (CHMM 어휘인식에서 채널 유사성을 이용한 선택적 음성 특징 추출)

  • Oh, Sang Yeon
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.11 no.10
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    • pp.453-458
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    • 2013
  • HMM Speech recognition systems have a few weaknesses, including failure to recognize speech due to the mixing of environment noise other voices. In this paper, we propose a speech feature extraction methode using CHMM for extracting selected target voice from mixture of voices and noises. we make use of channel similarity and correlate relation for the selective speech extraction composes. This proposed method was validated by showing that the average distortion of separation of the technique decreased by 0.430 dB. It was shown that the performance of the selective feature extraction is better than another system.

A Comparison of Effective Feature Vectors for Speech Emotion Recognition (음성신호기반의 감정인식의 특징 벡터 비교)

  • Shin, Bo-Ra;Lee, Soek-Pil
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.67 no.10
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    • pp.1364-1369
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    • 2018
  • Speech emotion recognition, which aims to classify speaker's emotional states through speech signals, is one of the essential tasks for making Human-machine interaction (HMI) more natural and realistic. Voice expressions are one of the main information channels in interpersonal communication. However, existing speech emotion recognition technology has not achieved satisfactory performances, probably because of the lack of effective emotion-related features. This paper provides a survey on various features used for speech emotional recognition and discusses which features or which combinations of the features are valuable and meaningful for the emotional recognition classification. The main aim of this paper is to discuss and compare various approaches used for feature extraction and to propose a basis for extracting useful features in order to improve SER performance.

Speech Recognition Performance Improvement using Gamma-tone Feature Extraction Acoustic Model (감마톤 특징 추출 음향 모델을 이용한 음성 인식 성능 향상)

  • Ahn, Chan-Shik;Choi, Ki-Ho
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.11 no.7
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    • pp.209-214
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    • 2013
  • Improve the recognition performance of speech recognition systems as a method for recognizing human listening skills were incorporated into the system. In noisy environments by separating the speech signal and noise, select the desired speech signal. but In terms of practical performance of speech recognition systems are factors. According to recognized environmental changes due to noise speech detection is not accurate and learning model does not match. In this paper, to improve the speech recognition feature extraction using gamma tone and learning model using acoustic model was proposed. The proposed method the feature extraction using auditory scene analysis for human auditory perception was reflected In the process of learning models for recognition. For performance evaluation in noisy environments, -10dB, -5dB noise in the signal was performed to remove 3.12dB, 2.04dB SNR improvement in performance was confirmed.

Modified Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient for Korean Children's Speech Recognition (한국어 유아 음성인식을 위한 수정된 Mel 주파수 캡스트럼)

  • Yoo, Jae-Kwon;Lee, Kyoung-Mi
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2013
  • This paper proposes a new feature extraction algorithm to improve children's speech recognition in Korean. The proposed feature extraction algorithm combines three methods. The first method is on the vocal tract length normalization to compensate acoustic features because the vocal tract length in children is shorter than in adults. The second method is to use the uniform bandwidth because children's voice is centered on high spectral regions. Finally, the proposed algorithm uses a smoothing filter for a robust speech recognizer in real environments. This paper shows the new feature extraction algorithm improves the children's speech recognition performance.

Proposed Efficient Architectures and Design Choices in SoPC System for Speech Recognition

  • Trang, Hoang;Hoang, Tran Van
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.241-247
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    • 2013
  • This paper presents the design of a System on Programmable Chip (SoPC) based on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) for speech recognition in which Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) for speech feature extraction and Vector Quantization for recognition are used. The implementing process of the speech recognition system undergoes the following steps: feature extraction, training codebook, recognition. In the first step of feature extraction, the input voice data will be transformed into spectral components and extracted to get the main features by using MFCC algorithm. In the recognition step, the obtained spectral features from the first step will be processed and compared with the trained components. The Vector Quantization (VQ) is applied in this step. In our experiment, Altera's DE2 board with Cyclone II FPGA is used to implement the recognition system which can recognize 64 words. The execution speed of the blocks in the speech recognition system is surveyed by calculating the number of clock cycles while executing each block. The recognition accuracies are also measured in different parameters of the system. These results in execution speed and recognition accuracy could help the designer to choose the best configurations in speech recognition on SoPC.