• MALSORI
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• no.62
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• pp.1-17
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to investigate and quantitatively describe the acoustic characteristics of current Korean monophthongs. Recordings were made of 33 men and 27 women producing the vowels /i, e, ${\epsilon}$, a, ${\partial}$, o, u, i/ in a carrier phrase "This character is ___." A listening test was conducted in which 19 participants judged each vowel. F1, F2, and F3 were measured from the vowels judged as intended vowels by more than 17 people from the listening test. Analysis of formant data shows some interesting results including the undeniable confirmation of the 7-vowel system in modern Korean. It turns out that quite different sounding Korean vowels and English vowels happen to have very similar formant measurements. Also the difference between "citation-form reading" vs. "natural utterance reading" is discussed.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.73-80
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• 2013

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.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.215-218
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• 2004

The aim of this paper is to analyze the acoustic features for disguised voice. In this paper we examined the features such as pitch range, vowel formants(F1, F2, F3, F4). So the result of the analysis is as follows. : (1) Pitch range and average of pitch value is very important cue for speaker verification. (2) F3-F2 is also important cue for speaker verification (3) /a/ is more verified than other vowels.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.135-140
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• 2009

본 논문은 한국어 8 단모음을 인식하는 자동 독화 신경망 시스템을 구축한 것이다. 얼굴의 특정들은 휘도와 채도 성분으로 인하여 다양한 색 공간에서 다양한 표현 값을 갖는다. 이를 이용하여 각 표현 값들을 증폭하거나 축소, 대비시킴으로서 얼굴 특정들을 추출되게 하였다. 눈과 코, 안쪽 입의 외곽선, 이의 외곽선을 찾았고, 그 후 한국어 8모음 발화시 구분되게 변화는 값들을 파라미터로 설정하였다. 한국어 8모음을 발화하는 2400개의 자료를 모아 분석하고 이 분석을 바탕으로 신경망 시스템을 구축하여 실험하였다. 이 실험에 정상인 5명이 동원되었고, 사람들 사이에 있는 관찰 오차를 정규화를 통하여 수정하였다. 5명으로 분석하였고, 5명으로 인식 실험하여 좋은 결과를 얻었다.

• 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.

• MALSORI
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• no.65
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• pp.13-36
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• 2008

This paper attempts to analyze the characteristics of Korean vowel production by 12 Korean native speakers and 36 adult learners. The analyses have been performed with investigations of F1and F2 values. Results showed that there's no significant difference between /ㅔ/ and /H/ and between /ㅗ/ and /ㅜ/ in Korean native speakers' pronunciations. The distinguishing tendencies found in the analyses of foreign learners' pronunciations are fronting and lowering of /ㅗ/ by English speakers, backing and heightening of /ㅓ/ by Japanese speakers and backing and lowering of /ㅏ/ by Chinese speakers. For the limitations of this paper, it has a meaning of a preliminary study and could be developed into further research to show the order of acquisition and L1 transference.

• MALSORI
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• no.56
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• pp.103-125
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• 2005

We present a new method of measuring the volume and cross-sectional area of the vocal tract from magnetic resonance images. The vocal tract was divided by the 2 constriction points on the horizontal and vertical planes. The ratios of the volumes of the segment vocal tracts to that of the entire vocal tract play a crucial role in discriminating Korean monophthongs in that vowels were successfully discriminated by the ratios. The discriminant analysis also demonstrated that the acoustic parameters F1 and F2, in addition to the segment volumes, serve as significant parameters in discriminating Korean monophthongs.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.71-79
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• 2013

This study provided longitudinal examination of the Chinese learners' acquisition of the Korean vowels. Specifically the author examined whether Korean monophthongs are acquired rapidly in early stages of learning (Flege, Munro and Skelton, 1992; Munro and Derwing, 2008) or they develop rather gradually in proportion to the learners' experience (Byee, 2001; Ellis, 2006). This study collected the Korean vowel production by 23 Chinese learners for a year, and then analysed F1 and F2 of each Korean vowel. The results showed that 1) Most of the second language (L2) vowels were rapidly improved during the first six or nine months of Korean learning before reaching the constant stage; and 2) The exact acquisition trajectories varied across the seven vowels. Specifically the vowels which were acquired in the early stage of learning were /i, e, ɨ/ for F1 and /ʌ, e, o, u/ for F2. Thus this study supports the hypothesis of Flege et al. (1992) and Munro and Derwing (2008) except the fact that each vowel showed the different learning route.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.64-66
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to compare and analyze some acoustic parameters of the cochlear implanted children(N=20, aged 3-10) and to suggest a basic data on speech rehabilitaion for the cochlear implanted children. Acoustic analyses of seven Korean monophthongs produced by 4 contexts(V, CV, VC, CVC) were conducted for the cochler implanted children and normal hearing children(N=20, aged 3-10). Subjects were asked to pronounce a list of vowel repeating three times. The results of this study are the same as follows: First, in the case of the cochlear implanted group, there were no significant differences in F1 and F2. Second, in the case of the normal hearing group, there were significant differences in F2 /ㅜ/ between V and CVC, between VC and CVC. Third, there were significant differences in F1, F2 between CI group and normal hearing group.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.3-10
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 음소단위 PSOLA 한국어 합성을 LSP line의 조절과 자모음 분석을 통해서 실시하였다. 음성합성에서 많이 사용하는 triphone, diphone, demisyllable등과 같은 합성단위들은 자연스러운 합성음을 위해 다양한 음운환경에서 수집된다. 그러나, 이런 방법 은 많은 시간과 메모리가 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 합성단위로서 자음17개, 모음 16개로 총 33개의 음소를 이용하였다. 자음은 후위모음/이/인 CV에서 segment되고, 모음은 단음절의 단모음과 이중모음을 1인의 화자로부터 합성데이터를 수집하였다. 또한, 10명의 화자가 발성 한 CV에서 각 모음에 따라 변하는 자음의 주파수를 분석하였고, CV+VC 또는 CV+CV에서 각 자음에 따라 변하는 모음의 포먼트변화를 분석하였다. 분석결과를 토대로 모음은 LSP line을 조절해서 PSOLA합성을 하고, 자음은 합성하려는 모음과 결합하였다. 그 결과 6개의 합성단어에 대한 청취율은 65%를 보였다.