Phonetics and Speech Sciences (말소리와 음성과학)

Korean Society of Speech Sciences (한국음성학회)
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A Study on the Formant Comparison of Korean Monophthongs according to Age and Gender -A Survey on Patients in Oriental Hospitals-

연령 및 성별에 따른 한국인 단모음 포먼트 비교에 관한 연구 -한방병원 내원환자를 중심으로-

  • Received : 2012.10.16
  • Accepted : 2013.01.15
  • Published : 2013.03.31
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Abstract

Formant is one of the essential vocal features for research of voice production, recognition and synthesis. Numerous studies were established on foreign languages including English vowels. However, studies related to Korean were done with a limited number of voice data. In this study, we compare four formants according to age and gender using a large number of Korean monophthongs. A total of 2614 Korean speakers participated in our experiments. We summarize statistical results by mean and standard deviation for each formant of five monophthongs. The results show a notable difference in each age and gender group. A quantitative study based on a large dataset is suggested for future studies on Korean speech sounds.

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