• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제54호
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• pp.15-26
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• 2005

The aim of this paper was to analyze the lexical effects on spoken word recognition of Korean monosyllabic word. The lexical factors chosen in this paper was frequency, density and lexical familiarity of words. Result of the analysis was as follows; frequency was the significant factor to predict spoken word recognition score of monosyllabic word. The other factors were not significant. This result suggest that word frequency should be considered in speech perception test.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.85-94
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to see the effects of pitch and length patterns on spoken word recognition. In Experiment 1, a syllable monitoring task was used to see the effects of pitch and length on the pre-lexical level of spoken word recognition. For both Seoul dialect speakers and Daegu dialect speakers, pitch and length did not affect the syllable detection processes. This result implies that there is little effect of pitch and length in pre-lexical processing. In Experiment 2, a lexical decision task was used to see the effect of pitch and length on the lexical access level of spoken word recognition. In this experiment, word frequency (low and high) as well as pitch and length was manipulated. The results showed that pitch and length information did not play an important role for Seoul dialect speakers, but that it did affect lexical decision processing for Daegu dialect speakers. Pitch and length seem to affect lexical access during the word recognition process of Daegu dialect speakers.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2005년도 춘계 학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.77-80
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• 2005

The aim of this paper was to analyze the lexical effects on spoken word recognition of Korean monosyllabic word. The lexical factors chosen in this paper was frequency, density and lexical familiarity of words. Result of the analysis was as follows; frequency was the significant factor to predict spoken word recognition score of monosyllabic word. The other factors were not significant. This result suggest that word frequency should be considered in speech perception test.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.810-818
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• 2010

This paper presents a new framework for integrating untranscribed spoken content into the acoustic training of an automatic speech recognition system. Untranscribed spoken content plays a very important role for under-resourced languages because the production of manually transcribed speech databases still represents a very expensive and time-consuming task. We proposed two new methods as part of the training framework. The first method focuses on combining initial acoustic models using a data-driven metric. The second method proposes an improved acoustic training procedure based on unsupervised transcriptions, in which word endings were modified by broad phonetic classes. The training framework was applied to baseline acoustic models using untranscribed spoken content from parliamentary debates. We include three types of acoustic models in the evaluation: baseline, reference content, and framework content models. The best overall result of 18.02% word error rate was achieved with the third type. This result demonstrates statistically significant improvement over the baseline and reference acoustic models.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제25권12호
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• pp.1541-1547
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• 1988

In this paper, a new model for isolated word recognition called segment probability model is proposed. The proposed model is composed of two procedures of segmentation and modelling each segment. Therefore the spoken word is devided into arbitrary segments and observation probability in each segments is obtained using vector quantization. The proposed model is compared with pattern matching method and hidden Markov model by recognition experiment. The experimental results show that the proposed model is better than exsisting methods in terms of recognition rate and caculation amounts.

• 전자공학회논문지C
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• 제35C권11호
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• pp.63-75
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• 1998

한국어 연속 음성에서 발생하는 조음결합문제를 해결하기 위하여 단어를 기본 인식 단위로 사용할 경우 각 단어의 효율적인 표현 방법, 연속된 단어로 이루어진 여러 문장의 표현 방법 그리고 입력된 연속음성을 연속된 여러 단어로의 정합 방법에 관한 연구가 선행되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 은닉 마르코프 모델과 레벨빌딩 알고리즘을 이용한 한국어 연속 음성 인식 시스템을 제안한다. 각 단어는 은닉 마르코프 모델로 표현하고 문장을 표현하기 위하여 단어 모델을 연결한 형태인 인식 네트워크를 구성한다. 인식네트워크의 탐색 알고리즘으로는 레벨 빌딩 알고리즘을 사용한다. 제안한 방법은 항공기 예약 시스템에 적용한 실험에서 인식율과 인식속도면에서 실용적이었으며 또한 비교적 적은 저장공간으로 전체 문장을 표현하고 쉽게 확장할 수 있다는 장점을 가지고 있다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.187-191
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• 2004

연결 단어 인식기, 특히 연결 숫자음 인식기를 제작하기 위한 음성 데이터베이스를 구축하는데 있어서 완전하고 효율적인 발성목록을 작성하기 위한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기존의 음성 DB에서 사용되는 목록은 주로 난수 발생기에 의하여 만들어지거나 사용자의 전화번호, 우편번호 등을 이용하여 만들어져 왔으므로 다양한 환경의 음소 또는 단어를 균일하게 포함하고 있지 못하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 하나의 단어에 대하여 전후에 모든 단어가 연결되는 조합을 모두 한번씩 포함하는 목록을 만드는 효율적인 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 알고리즘으로 7연 숫자 목록을 만들면 200개의 문장으로 모든 조합을 포함할 수 있게 된다. 본 논문에서는 알고리즘 예제와 본 알고리즘의 완전성과 효율성에 대하여 기술하였다.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제67호
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• pp.149-166
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• 2008

In spoken document retrievals (SDR), subword (typically phonemes) indexing term is used to avoid the out-of-vocabulary (OOV) problem. It makes the indexing and retrieval process independent from any vocabulary. It also requires a small corpus to train the acoustic model. However, subword indexing term approach has a major drawback. It shows higher word error rates than the large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) system. In this paper, we propose an probabilistic slot detection and n-gram based string matching method for phone based spoken document retrievals to overcome high error rates of phone recognizer. Experimental results have shown 9.25% relative improvement in the mean average precision (mAP) with 1.7 times speed up in comparison with the baseline system.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.17-25
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• 2010

This study explores whether Koreans exploit their native coda-neutralization process when recognizing words in Korean continuous speech. According to the phonological rules in Korean, coda-neutralization process must come before the liaison process, as long as the latter(i.e. liaison process) occurs between 'words', which results in liaison-consonants being coda-neutralized ones such as /b/, /d/, or /g/, rather than non-neutralized ones like /p/, /t/, /k/, /ʧ/, /ʤ/, or /s/. Consequently, if Korean listeners use their native coda-neutralization rules when processing speech input, word recognition will be hampered when non-neutralized consonants precede vowel-initial targets. Word-spotting and word-monitoring tasks were conducted in Experiment 1 and 2, respectively. In both experiments, listeners recognized words faster and more accurately when vowel-initial target words were preceded by coda-neutralized consonants than when preceded by coda non-neutralized ones. The results show that Korean listeners exploit the coda-neutralization process when processing their native spoken language.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권11호
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• pp.2800-2812
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to examine the syllable-word boundary misalignment cost on word segmentation in Korean continuous speech. Previous studies have demonstrated the important role of syllabification in speech segmentation. The current study investigated whether the resyllabification process affects word recognition in Korean continuous speech. In Experiment I, under the misalignment condition, participants were presented with stimuli in which a word-final consonant became the onset of the next syllable. (e.g., /k/ in belsak ingan becomes the onset of the first syllable of ingan 'human'). In the alignment condition, they heard stimuli in which a word-final vowel was also the final segment of the syllable (e.g., /eo/ in heulmeo ingan is the end of both the syllable and word). The results showed that word recognition was faster and more accurate in the alignment condition. Experiment II aimed to confirm that the results of Experiment I were attributable to the resyllabification process, by comparing only the target words from each condition. The results of Experiment II supported the findings of Experiment I. Therefore, based on the current study, we confirmed that Korean, a syllable-timed language, has a misalignment cost of resyllabification.