• Speech Sciences
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.105-114
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• 2005

It was verified that a speaker verification system improved its performances of EER by regularizing log likelihood ratio, using background speaker models. Recently the wireless mobile phones are becoming more dominant communication terminals than wired phones. So the need for building a speaker verification system on mobile phone is increasing abruptly. Therefore in this paper, we had some experiments to examine the performance of speaker verification based on mobile phone's voices. Especially we are focused on the performance variations in EER(Equal Error Rate) according to several background speaker's characteristics, such as selecting methods(MSC, MIX), number of background speakers, aging factor of speech database. For this, we constructed a speaker verification system that uses GMM(Gaussin Mixture Model) and found that the MIX method is generally superior to another method by about 1.0% EER. In aspect of number of background speakers, EER is decreasing in proportion to the background speakers populations. As the number is increasing as 6, 10 and 16, the EERs are recorded as 13.0%, 12.2%, and 11.6%. An unexpected results are happened in aging effects of the speech database on the performance. EERs are measured as 4%, 12% and 19% for each seasonally recorded databases from session 1 to session 3, respectively, where duration gap between sessions is set by 3 months. Although seasons speech database has 10 speakers and 10 sentences per each, which gives less statistical confidence to results, we confirmed that enrolled speaker models in speaker verification system should be regularly updated using the ongoing claimant's utterances.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.79-88
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• 2008

Recently demands for the speech technology-based products targeted for the mobile terminals such as cellular phones and PDA are rapidly increasing. And voting-based speaker identification algorithm is known to have a good performance in the mobile environment, since it works well with small amount of speaker training data. In this paper, we proposed a method to improve the performance of this voting based speaker identification system by using the observation confidence value which is derived from the function of SNR each frame. The proposed method is evaluated with ETRI cellular phone DB which is made for the speaker recognition task. The experimental results show that the proposed method has better performance of 2-3% identification rate than the conventional GMM method.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.495-498
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• 2001

최근 음싱인식이 인간과 기계 사이의 자연스러운 통신을 위한 가장 중요한 수단으로 인식되어 이와 관련된 연구가 구준히 이루어져 왔으며, 일부 응용 분야에서는 성공적으로 적용되고 있다. 하지만, 좀 더 다양한 응용분야에 적용하기 위해서는 실제 환경에 존재하는 여러가지 주변잡음에 강인한 특성을 가지는 인식 시스템이 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 음성인식 시스템을 휴대전화에 적용하기 위해 도메인 적응 기법, LDA (Linear Discriminant Analysis) 기법 등을 도입하여 시스템 DB의 크기를 줄이고 잡음에 대한 강인성을 높이고자 하였으며, HMM (Hidden Markov Model)에 기반한 음싱인식 시스템을 사용하여 각 기법의 적용에 따른 인식성능을 평가하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.1E
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• pp.20-24
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• 2006

In this paper, we focused on the real time implementation of a speech recognition system with medium size of vocabulary considering its application to a mobile phone. First, we developed the PC based variable vocabulary word recognizer having the size of program memory and total acoustic models as small as possible. To reduce the memory size of acoustic models, linear discriminant analysis and phonetic tied mixture were applied in the feature selection process and training HMMs, respectively. In addition, state based Gaussian selection method with the real time cepstral normalization was used for reduction of computational load and robust recognition. Then, we verified the real-time operation of the implemented recognition system on the TMS320C6201 EVM board. The implemented recognition system uses memory size of about 610 kbytes including both program memory and data memory. The recognition rate was 95.86% for ETRI 445DB, and 96.4%, 97.92%, 87.04% for three kinds of name databases collected through the mobile phones.