• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.713-720
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• 2015

As computing and network technologies are further developed, communication equipment continues to become smaller, and as a result, mobility is now a predominant feature of current technology. Therefore, demand for speech recognition systems in mobile environments is rapidly increasing. This paper proposes a novel method to recognize the Korean vowel 'ㅐ' as a part of a phoneme-based Korean speech recognition system. The proposed method works by analyzing a sequence of patterns in the time domain instead of the frequency domain, and consequently, its use can markedly reduce computational costs. Three algorithms are presented to detect typical sequence patterns of 'ㅐ', and these are combined to produce the final decision. The results of the experiment show that the proposed method has an accuracy of 89.1% in recognizing the vowel 'ㅐ'.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.196-199
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• 2003

The results of this thesis show that Seoul dialect speakers neutralized /$\varepsilon$/ and /e/ to /E/ about 80％ and the old aged generations pronounced /ㅐ/ and /ㅔ/ as it is than the young aged generations's.

• MALSORI
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• no.56
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• pp.29-47
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• 2005

Investigating and comparing English vowels $/{\varepsilon}/\;and\;/{\ae}/$, and their-supposedly- corresponding vowels in Korean /ㅔ/ and /ㅐ/, this study addresses the following questions: Do Koreans pronounce/ㅔ/ and /ㅐ/ differently? Do they pronounce English $/{\varepsilon}/\;and\;/{\ae}/$ differently? And what is the relationship between the Korean vowels and the English vowels? Is the conventional correspondence (/ㅔ:${\varepsilon}/$, and /ㅐ/:${\ae)/$ appropriate? The results showed that 24 Korean male college students distinguish neither Korean /ㅔ/ and /ㅐ/ nor English $/{\varepsilon}/\;and\;/{\ae}/$, thus suggesting that their inability to distinguish the two vowels in their native tongue has an effect on their production of the English vowels. While not distinguishable within a language, Korean /ㅔ/ and /ㅐ/ still form a separate group from English $/{\varepsilon}/\;and\;/{\ae}/$. But Korean-Produced $/{\varepsilon}/\;and\;/{\ae}/$ are significantly different from American-produced $/{\varepsilon}/\;and\;/{\ae}/:$ Korean-produced $/{\varepsilon}/\;and\;/{\ae}/$ have much lower F1 and F2 than American-produced counterparts. Accordingly it is advised that, in learning English pronunciation, Korean students should be instructed to take the English vowel system as a separate system from Korean one, and thus, not to substitute Korean vowels for English vowels. And students should be provided with specific instructions on the articulatory differences between English vowels and Korean vowels. For example, Cey should be instructed to lower their jaws more for English $/{\varepsilon}/\;and\;/{\ae}/$ than for Korean /ㅔ/ and /ㅐ/.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.25-39
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• 1991

When an ending which begins with 'a/a'combines to a stem,'a/a'can be deleted.Especially when ot combines to an h-irregular verb,it is represented as a variant like '-a-','-e-','-ia-',or'-ie-'.In order to analyze the variants of 'a/a',we suggest the format of a grammatical morpheme dictionary which is represented as a binary tree and several procedures which process the variants so that the unexpected errors can be removed which occur frequently when we analyze Korean worl phrase.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.119-129
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• 2015

This paper investigates the status of the merger between the mid front unrounded vowels ㅔ[e] and ㅐ[${\varepsilon}$] in contemporary Korean. Our analysis is based on a balanced corpus of production and perception data from young subjects from three dialectal areas (Seoul, Daegu and Gwangju). Except for expected gender differences, the production data display no difference in the realization of these vowels, in any of the dialects. The perception data, while mostly in line with the production results, show that Seoul females tend to better discriminate the two vowels in terms of perceived height: vowels with a lower F1 are more likely to be categorized as ㅔ by this group. We then investigate the possible causes of this merger: based on an empirical study of transcribed spoken Korean, we show that the pair of vowels ㅔ/ㅐ has a very low functional load. We argue that this factor, together with the phonetic similarity of the two vowels, may have been responsible for the observed merger.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.67-82
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• 2006

The purpose of this experimental study is to investigate formant characteristics of Korean monophthongs spoken by Japanese learners and to compare the characteristics of vowels produced by the Japanese learners with those of the Korean native speakers. The data consisted of three categories: eight vowels in isolation, words including eight vowels in carrier sentences, and words including eight vowels in natural sentences. In this study, formant frequencies of the vowels were measured by Wave Surfer. It was assumed that the formant frequencies of the Korean vowels produced by the Japanese learners could be different from those of the Korean native speakers due to the influence of their own Japanese vowels. Results of this study showed that the Japanese learners had the difficulties to distinguish between the pairs /-/and /ㅜ/, /ㅓ/and /ㅗ/, and /ㅏ/and /ㅔ/. In Japanese vowels, F2 frequency value of /ㅜ/ was similar to that of the Korean /-/. It means that when the Japanese leaners produced Korean /ㅜ/, they might neutralize /-/ and /ㅜ/. Besides, there were not /ㅓ/and /ㅐ/ in Japanese vowels. Therefore, they tended to pronounce /ㅓ/ similar to /ㅗ/ which has the most similar formant frequency value with that of /ㅓ/, and /ㅐ/ was pronounced similar to /ㅔ/ for the same reason.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.1-8
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• 2000

본 연구에서는 기존의 공조방식 및 본 연구에 제안된 개별환경제어시스템(PEM)으로부터 재실자가 거주하여 사용하고 있는 컴퓨터룸(CR)에 대해 기하학적으로 3차원 시뮬레이션을 수행하여 CR의 열취득과 재실자 온열 쾌적감을 감성공학적 측면에서 분석하였다. 본 연구로부터 바닥으로부터 공기를 유입하여 천정으로 유출하는 바닥취출공조(TAM)방식이 실내 환경 개선에 유리하고 디퓨저만을 통하여 공기가 유입되어 천정과 바닥으로 공가가 유출되는 개별공조(PEM) 방식은 열적 냉각 성능은 좋으나 컴퓨터와 재실자 주변에 강력한 ㅐ순환 유동을 유인하여 실내 환경의 쾌적감 측면에서는 불리하다. 그러나 PEM과 TAM방식의 결합이 감성공학적 온열특성 분포로부터 CR의 재실자 주변온도 분포에 최적임을 알 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.784-786
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• 2004

정보통신 단말기에서 한글을 입력할 때는 단말기에 부착되어 있는 한정된 개수의 입력키만 을 이용해야 한다는 제약이 있다. 이러한 제약 조건 하에서 한글 모음을 입력하는 효율적인 방법을 모색하기 위해 기본 모음 집합의 크기를 변화시키면서 모음 조합 방법을 제시하였다. 그 결과로 8개의 기본 모음 'ㅏㅓ ㅗ ㅜ ㅡ ㅣ ㅐ ㅔ' 로부터 모음의 조합 원리 및 가획 원리에 의해 입력키가 할당되지 않은 모음을 조합하는 방식을 제안하였다. 이 방법은 유사 모음간의 전환이 가능한 오류 수정 방식과 다중 입력 방식을 도입하여 사용자 편의성을 추구하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.907-909
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• 2004

정보화 시대가 진전됨에 따라 휴대폰과 리모콘 등 휴대용 단말기에서 한글을 입력할 필요성이 증가하고 있다. 휴대용 단말기에서 한글 입력 방식은 단말기에 부착되어 있는 제한된 버튼만을 이용해야 한다는 제약이 있다. 이러한 제약 조건 하에서 한글 모음을 편리하고 빠르게 입력할 수 있는 방법으로 'ㅏ/ㅓ/ㅗ/ㅜ/ㅡ/ㅣ/ㅐ/ㅔ'를 기본 요소로 하여 조합되는 모음의 입력 방식을 다양화하였으며, 기존의 천지인, 나랏글 방식과 비교했을 때 사용자 편의성과 입력의 신속성 측면에서 매우 효율적임을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1984.12a
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• pp.57-61
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• 1984

In this study, the system is proposed which can be used for recognition of Koean single vowles "ㅏ, ㅓ, ㅗ, ㅜ, ㅡ, ㅣ, ㅐ, ㅔ, ㅚ,", and automatic recognition is processed using $\mu$-computer. 3 men of not-being-studied are participated in this experiment. Using the period of vowels, one part of the steady state is selected for high speed recognition, and amplitude comparison method, LPC, PARCOR, and Formant are used for parameter of recognition. Formant is obtained by peak picking method using LPC, and then vowels are recognized by amplitude comparison method, LPC, PARCOR, and Formant. As a result, Recognition rates are 90.1% for amplitude comparison method, 93.1% for LPC, 100% for PARCOR, 88.8% for using formant.