• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.3E
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• pp.19-23
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• 1997

The goal of postprocessing in automatic speech recognition is to improve recognition performance by utterance verification at the output of recognition stage. It is focused on the effective rejection of out-of vocabulary words based on the confidence score of hypothesized candidate word. We present two methods for computing confidence scores. Both methods are based on the distance between each observation vector and the representative code vector, which is defined by the most likely code vector at each state. While the first method employs simple time normalization, the second one uses a normalization technique based on the concept of on-line garbage mode[1]. According to the speaker independent isolated words recognition experiment with discrete density HMM, the second method outperforms both the first one and conventional likelihood ratio scoring method[2].

• ETRI Journal
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.461-464
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• 2005

Recently, a variety of confidence measures for utterance verification has been studied to improve speech recognition performance by rejecting out-of-vocabulary inputs. Most of the conventional confidence measures for utterance verification are based primarily on hypothesis testing or an approximated posterior probability, and their performances depend on the robustness of an alternative hypothesis or the prior probability. We introduce a novel confidence measure called a search confusion rate (SCR), which does not require an alternative hypothesis or the approximation of posterior probability. Our confusion-based approach shows better performance in additive noise-corrupted speech as well as in clean speech.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.106-109
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• 1997

For the practical isolated word recognition system, the ability to reject the out-of -vocabulary(OOV) is required. In this paper, we present a rejection method which uses the clustered phoneme modeling combined with postprocessing by likelihood ratio scoring. Our baseline speech recognition system was based on the whole-word continuous HMM. And 6 clustered phoneme models were generated using statistical method from the 45 context independent phoneme models, which were trained using the phonetically balanced speech database. The test of the rejection performance for speaker independent isolated words recogntion task on the 22 section names shows that our method is superior to the conventional postprocessing method, performing the rejection according to the likelihood difference between the first and second candidates. Furthermore, this clustered phoneme models do not require retraining for the other isolated word recognition system with different vocabulary sets.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2005.04a
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• pp.95-98
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• 2005

Many utterance verification (UV) algorithms have been studied to reject out-of-vocabulary (OOV) in speech recognition systems. Most of conventional confidence measures for UV algorithms are mainly based on log likelihood ratio test, but these measures take much time to evaluate the alternative hypothesis or anti-model likelihood. We propose a novel confidence measure which makes use of a momentary best scored state sequence during Viterbi search. Our approach is more efficient than conventional LRT-based algorithms because it does not need to build anti-model or to calculate the alternative hypothesis. The proposed confidence measure shows better performance in additive noise-corrupted speech as well as clean speech.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.81-84
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• 2001

본 논문은 중규모 단어급의 핵심어 검출 시스템에서 인식률 향상을 위해 미등록어 거절(Out-of-Vocabulary rejection) 기능을 제어하기 위한 연구이다. 이것은 핵심어 검출기에서 인식된 결과를 확인하는 과정으로 검증시스템이 구현되기 위해서는 매 음소마다 검증 기능이 필요하고, 이를 위해서 반음소(anti-phoneme model) 모델을 사용하였다. 검증의 역할은 인식기에서 인식된 단어가 등록어인지 미등록어인지 판별하는 것이다. 단어인식기는 비터비 탐색을 하므로, 기본적으로 단어단위로 인식을 하지만 그 인식된 단어는 내부적으로 음소단위로 인식된다. 따라서, 최소 검증 오류를 갖는 반음소 모델을 사용하고, 이를 이용하여 인식된 음소 단위들을 각각의 반음소 모델과 비교하여 통계적인 방법에 의해 신뢰도를 구한다 이 음소단위의 신뢰도를 단어 단위의 신뢰도로 환산하기 위해서 음소단위를 평균 내는 방식 을 취한다. 이렇게 함으로서, 등록어와 미등록어 사이의 분별력을 크게 하여 향상된 인식 성능을 얻었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.410-419
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• 2004

In this paper. we propose a method of confidence measure fusion under Bayesian framework for speech recognition. Centralized and distributed schemes are considered for confidence measure fusion. Centralized fusion is feature level fusion which combines the values of individual confidence scores and makes a final decision. In contrast. distributed fusion is decision level fusion which combines the individual decision makings made by each individual confidence measuring method. Optimal Bayesian fusion rules for centralized and distributed cases are presented. In isolated word Out-of-Vocabulary (OOV) rejection experiments. centralized Bayesian fusion shows over 13% relative equal error rate (EER) reduction compared with the individual confidence measure methods. In contrast. the distributed Bayesian fusion shows no significant performance increase.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.181-192
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• 2004

This paper presents an efficient speech interactive agent rendering smooth car navigation and Telematics services, by employing embedded automatic speech recognition (ASR), distributed speech recognition (DSR) and text-to-speech (ITS) modules, all while enabling safe driving. A speech interactive agent is essentially a conversational tool providing command and control functions to drivers such' as enabling navigation task, audio/video manipulation, and E-commerce services through natural voice/response interactions between user and interface. While the benefits of automatic speech recognition and speech synthesizer have become well known, involved hardware resources are often limited and internal communication protocols are complex to achieve real time responses. As a result, performance degradation always exists in the embedded H/W system. To implement the speech interactive agent to accommodate the demands of user commands in real time, we propose to optimize the hardware dependent architectural codes for speed-up. In particular, we propose to provide a composite solution through memory reconfiguration and efficient arithmetic operation conversion, as well as invoking an effective out-of-vocabulary rejection algorithm, all made suitable for system operation under limited resources.