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Personalized Speech Classification Scheme for the Smart Speaker Accessibility Improvement of the Speech-Impaired people (언어장애인의 스마트스피커 접근성 향상을 위한 개인화된 음성 분류 기법)

  • SeungKwon Lee;U-Jin Choe;Gwangil Jeon
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.11 no.11
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    • pp.17-24
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    • 2022
  • With the spread of smart speakers based on voice recognition technology and deep learning technology, not only non-disabled people, but also the blind or physically handicapped can easily control home appliances such as lights and TVs through voice by linking home network services. This has greatly improved the quality of life. However, in the case of speech-impaired people, it is impossible to use the useful services of the smart speaker because they have inaccurate pronunciation due to articulation or speech disorders. In this paper, we propose a personalized voice classification technique for the speech-impaired to use for some of the functions provided by the smart speaker. The goal of this paper is to increase the recognition rate and accuracy of sentences spoken by speech-impaired people even with a small amount of data and a short learning time so that the service provided by the smart speaker can be actually used. In this paper, data augmentation and one cycle learning rate optimization technique were applied while fine-tuning ResNet18 model. Through an experiment, after recording 10 times for each 30 smart speaker commands, and learning within 3 minutes, the speech classification recognition rate was about 95.2%.