• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.18-30
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• 2021

The ultimate goal of the present study is to establish the acoustical performance standards of classroom for the elderly who are incomplete hearing people. As a pilot survey, the present study was conducted to investigate the listening environment and the actual condition of speech perception performance of education facilities for elderly, Acoustic performances of two education facilities for elderly in Cheongju were measured and questionnaire survey was done to elderly people. Also, speech intelligibility tests were undertaken by Consonant Vowel Consonant (CVC) and Phonetically Balanced Words (PBW) methods. The questionnaire survey showed that the elderly were satisfied with the listening environment of the educational facilities in general. Also, it was found that acoustical performances satisfy with the acoustic criteria of general classrooms in Korea. However, the results of the speech intelligibility test showed that the scores of elderly were significantly lower than twenties with normal hearing. It was also revealed that the scores are reduced as the age increases. Thus, it was concluded that the acoustical performance standards of educational facilities for the normal hearing were not suitable for educational facilities for the elderly.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.33-48
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• 2023

In this paper we consider automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Korean speech data in which elderly persons randomly speak a sequence of words such as animals and vegetables for one minute. Most of the speakers are over 60 years old and some of them are dementia patients. The goal is to compare deep-learning based ASR models for such data and to find models with good performance. ASR is a technology that can recognize spoken words and convert them into written text by computers. Recently, many deep-learning models with good performance have been developed for ASR. Training data for such models are mostly composed of the form of sentences. Furthermore, the speakers in the data should be able to pronounce accurately in most cases. However, in our data, most of the speakers are over the age of 60 and often have incorrect pronunciation. Also, it is Korean speech data in which speakers randomly say series of words, not sentences, for one minute. Therefore, pre-trained models based on typical training data may not be suitable for our data, and hence we train deep-learning based ASR models from scratch using our data. We also apply some data augmentation methods due to small data size.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Laryngology, Phoniatrics and Logopedics
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.16-19
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• 2014

The presbyphonia is a combination of physiological and structural changes due to aging of the larynx in elderly patients with voice problems. Some of these changes are inevitable, while others may be avoidable or reversible. The fatigue of phonation is the most common clinical symptom of the aging voice. The voice problems with aging are produced from variable causes including the organic lesions of the larynx. It is essential that the curers understand physiologic and pathologic changes of aging voice for minimizing glottal incompetence and improving vocal performance and quality of life of the elderly.

• Proceedings of the KSLP Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.176-176
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• 1999

배경 : trill은 혀의 첨부가 호기에 따라 진동하면서 경구개 전방에 부딪혀 나는 소리로 주로 "르" 발음으로 들린다. trill은 성악가들에게는 발성전에 후두의 준비운동으로 사용되고, 성대수술 반흔에 의한 애성환자나 노인성 음성장애환자의 음성치료에도 이용되고 있다. 목적 : trill을 실시할 때 전기성문파 측정법상에서 나타난 성대점막의 움직임을 조사하고 효과적인 trill 기법을 찾아보고자 하였다. (중략)

• Journal of the Korean Society of Laryngology, Phoniatrics and Logopedics
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.13-15
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• 2014

Presbyphonia is defined as voice change caused by aging. Since presbyphonia is one of the natural aging processes, the treatment should be considered for the patients complaining communication difficulties. The treatment should not only target on presbylaryngis, but also on underlying systemic conditions such as lung function, neurological diseases and medications. Therefore, the treatment for the patients with presbyphonia should be multidisciplinary including underlying disease control, voice therapy and surgical treatment. Although various experiments on treatment of presbylaryngis are currently being tried, repeated injection laryngoplasty is still playing an important role because presbyphonia is destined to get worse over time.

• Proceedings of the KSLP Conference
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• 2011.03a
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• pp.23-23
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• 2011

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.459-466
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• 2018

Gendered innovations is a term used by policy makers and academics to refer the process of creating better research and development (R&D) for both men and women. In this paper, we analyze the literatures in image and speech signal processing that can be used in ICT, examine the importance of gendered innovations through case study. Therefore the latest domestic and foreign literature related to image and speech signal processing based on gender research is searched and a total of 9 papers are selected. In terms of gender analysis, research subjects, research environment, and research design are examined separately. Especially, through the case analysis of algorithms of the elderly voice signal processing, machine learning, machine translation technology, and facial gender recognition technology, we found that there is gender bias in existing algorithms, and which leads to gender analysis is required. We also propose a gendered innovations method integrating sex and gender analysis in algorithm development. Gendered innovations in ICT can contribute to the creation of new markets by developing products and services that reflect the needs of both men and women.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.2595-2600
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• 2012

In this study, we propose the new interface system for the disabled and old people who do not well using electronic equipment that is used physical switch interface system. The proposed new interface system is consisted of speech and motion recognition system. Speech recognition system is mike in the headset, and motion recognition system is 3-axis accelerometer in the headset. In order to verify the usefulness of the proposed system, we make an experiment on new interface.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Laryngology, Phoniatrics and Logopedics
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.20-23
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• 2014

Age-related changes in larynx can have a direct impact on voice quality and general comfort level. Observations of vocal aging have spanned perceptual, acoustic, aerodynamic, physical, electromyographic (EMG) and histological levels. Evidence of differential vocal aging in relation to gender and physical condition has been reported. Perceptual, acoustic, aerodynamic, kinematic, EMG and histological data document age-related changes in laryngeal structure and function with advancing age. These changes contribute to a functional age-related impact of vocal hypofunction or compensatory hyperfunction. This review will focus on the current understanding of the clinical and cellular changes in the larynx that lead to presbyphonia.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2004.10d
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• pp.20-24
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 환경 잡음과 원거리 음성 입력 그리고 노인 발화 등의 열악한 음성 인식 환경에서의 음성 언어이해(spoken language understanding)를 위한 정보 추출 접근 방식에 대해 논하고 있다. 정보 추출의 목적은 미리 정의된 slot에 적절한 값을 찾는 것이다. 음성 언어 이해를 위한 정보 추출은 필수적인 요소만을 추출하는 것을 목적으로 하는 개념 집어내기(concept spotting) 접근 방식을 사용한다. 이러한 방식은 미리 정의된 개념 구조 slot에만 관심을 가지기 때문에. 음성 언어 이해에서 사용되는 정보 추출은 언어를 완전히 이해한다기보다는 부분적으로 이해하는 방식을 취하고 있다. 음성 입력 언어는 주로 열등한 인식 환경에서 이루어지기 때문에 많은 인식 오류를 가지고 이로 인해 텍스트 입력에 비해 이해하기 어렵다. 이러한 점을 고려하여, 특정 정보에 집중함으로써 음성 언어를 이해하고자 시도하였다. 도로 정보 안내 영역을 대상으로 한 실험에서 텍스트 입력(WER 0%)과 음성 입력(WER 39.0%)이 주어졌을 때, 개념 집어내기 방식의 F-measure 값은 각각 0.945, 0.823을 나타내었다.