• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.14-22
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• 2003

In this study, we examined the acoustic characteristics of Korean vowels through a production test under three conditions of speaking rates (slow, normal, fast). The effects of a change in speaking .ate on vowel duration were found to be very strong. The faster speaking rate was, the shorter the total duration of vowels was. But the duration ratio of two components of diphthong was not changed significantly according to changes in speaking rate. But unlike the temporal aspects, the formant value of vowels at their steady-state and change ratio of formant of semivowels were not affected strongly by the change in speaking rate.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.162-172
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• 2004

This study investigates the following three things through a production experiment and acoustic analysis: 1) relationship between speech rate and the segment duration in Korean, 2) relationship between speech rate and spectral characteristics of vowels, i. e. undershoot, and 3) correlation between the vowel duration and undershoot. The results showed that the faster the speech rate nab, the shorter the duration of syllables and segments was. A few speakers were affected by speech rate in the durational ratios between closure and aspiration in a stop and between Towel and consonant in a syllable. Closure duration and vowel duration were more affected compared to aspiration and consonant duration, respectively. Speakers showed some differences in the extent to which speech rate affected vowel undershoot, implying that speakers used different production mechanisms for spectral characteristics of vowels: Some speakers speeded up movement of articulatory organs according to speech rate increase while some kept it constant regardless of speech rate change.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.98-104
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• 1996

This paper propose the alteraton rule to compensate a formant trasition of several connected vowels for improving an unnatural synthesized continuous speech which is concatenated by each demisyllable without coarticulated formant transition for use in dmisyllable based synthesis by rule. To fullfill each formant transition part, the database of 42 stationary vowels which are segmented from the stable part of each vowels is appended to the one of Korean demisyllables, and the resonance circuit used in formant synthesis is employed to change the formant frequency of speech signals. To evaluate the synthesied speech by this rule, we carried out the alteration rule for connected vowels of the synthesized speech based on demisyllable, and compare spectrogram and MOS tested scores with the original and the demisyllable based synthesized speech without this rule. The result shows that this proposed rule can synthesize the more natural speech.

• Korean Linguistics
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• v.80
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• pp.211-234
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• 2018

This study aims to research the acoustic properties of Korean and Vietnamese monophthongs by Vietnamese advanced Korean learners, and to discuss the realization of Korean monophthongs compared to Koreans. The Vietnamese advanced Korean learners do not distinguish between /e/ and /${\varepsilon}$/, which are the same as Korean. They pronounce Korean /e(${\varepsilon}$)/ close to /e/ in their native language. In the case of /ʌ/, it is reported that many errors are observed in previous studies. However, /ʌ/ of Vietnamese advanced learners is realized similar to /ʌ/ spoken by Koreans. /ɯ/ of Vietnamese advanced Korean learners is pronounced in the back of the tongue, whereas in the central by Koreans. In the case of /o/ and /u/, there is no significant difference by the Vietnamese advanced Korean learners. /ɯ/ and /u/ are pronounced in relatively front side of the tongue in Korean, but it is not observed in the Vietnamese advanced Korean learners.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.41-44
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 음성합성 과정에서 음성유닛을 연결할 때 모음의 결합부분에서 포만트의 불일치로 일어나는 부자연스러운 합성음이 발생되는 문제점을 개선하기 위해서 앞에 오는 음성 유닛과 뒤에 오는 합성 유닛의 포만트 변경에 관한 방법을 제안한다. 요즘에 연구되는 코퍼스 방식에선 에너지와 피치와 음순지속시간 등을 기준으로 유닛을 선택한 후 연결하지만, 스펙트럼의 불일치가 이루어진다. 이런 스펙트럼의 불일치는 음질의 저하를 유도한다. 그래서 앞 음성유닛의 연결부분의 일정부분과 뒤 음성 유닛의 연결부분의 일정부분의 포만트를 천이시켜 일치시켜줌으로써 음질을 향상시켰다. 음성신호를 FFT한 후 magnitude와 phase를 분리한 후 앞 음성의 연결부분의 magnitude와 뒷 음성의 연결부분의 magnitude를 기준으로 linear interpolation한 값을 목표치로 이동하고 다시 합하여 원 신호를 복원하는 방식으로 포만트를 변경시켰다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.373-377
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• 2010

Numerous quantitative and qualitative studies have already been published related to English vowels. However, only minimal amounts of studies based on the acoustic analysis of Korean vowels have been accomplished. The purpose of this study is to obtain sufficient quantitative data based on the acoustic aspects of Korean vowels produced by males between the ages of 20s and 30s. A total of 31 males in their 20s and 30s produced the five fundamental vowels /a, e, i, o, u/ by repeating each of them three times in the standard Korean dialect. Such speech productions were recorded with 'Cool edit' and F1, F2, F3, F4 were extracted through the MATLAB acoustic analysis program. Results indicated that the overall patterns of formants were similar to previous studies, except that the formant levels of F1 and F2 of the vowels produced in this study were generally lower than that in previous studies. Future studies need to focus on obtaining vowel data by considering other factors such as age and other speech materials.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 1991.04a
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• pp.72-75
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• 1991

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.19-25
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• 2021

It has been widely recognized that there are two varieties of lateral liquid /l/, which are light /l/ (a non-velarized allophone) and dark /l/ (a velarized allophone). However, this categorical view has been challenged in recent studies, both on articulatory and acoustic aspects. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether to consider /l/ velarization as a continuum in American English and provide supporting data. A spontaneous American English speech database called the Buckeye Speech Corpus was used for the material. The formant frequencies of /l/ in each syllable position were measured and analyzed statistically. The formant frequencies of /l/ in each syllable position, especially F2 values, were significantly different from each other. The results showed that there were other significantly different varieties of /l/ in American English, which support the continuum view on /l/ velarization. Regarding the effect of the adjacent vowel, the backness of the adjacent vowels was shown to affect the degree of /l/ velarization, regardless of the syllable position of the lateral liquid. This result will help provide a solid ground for the continuum view.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06d
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• pp.88-91
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• 2000

개인용 컴퓨터가 멀티미디어 환경으로 변함에 따라서 인식률 향상과 처리시간 단축을 요구하고 있다. 본 논문은 기준패턴의 수가 증가함에 따라 발생하는 처리시간 증가 문제의 해결과 인식률 향상에 관한 것이다. 기준패턴의 수를 줄이기 위한 방법으로 각 모음별 포만트 정보를 구한 뒤 시험패턴과 비교할 후보자를 미리 정하여 인식률을 향상시키는 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 위와 같은 방법으로 모의 실험한 결과 전체 시스템 인식률이 기존의 방법에 비하여 0.5% 정도 향상되었고, 처리시간은 10%정도 감소하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.273.2-277
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 음소단위 비정형 연결합성 시, 접합점에서 포만트 불연속을 최소화할 수 있도록 이웃음소간 경계강도 예측모델과 합성단위 검색시 음소단위 최장일치 검색 알고리즘을 설계하였다. 합성단위 연결부에서 발생하는 신호왜곡을 최소화하기 위해 “_C_”환경에서 자음이 유성음화된 경우, “_V_”환경에서 모음이 무성음화된 경우, 그리고 유성음 사이의 포만트 주파수 차이에 대한 모델을 생성하여, 음소간의 조음강도가 약한 부분이 합성단위 경계로 설정되도록 하였다. 합성단위 경계가 결정되면 주어진 문장의 문맥정보만을 이용하여 코포스로부터 후보를 선택한다. 선택된 후보를 사이의 연결성을 측정하기 위하여 합성 경계를 기준으로 전, 후 음소에 대한 음성적 특성과 포만트 천이 특성을 고려하였다. 실험은 K-ToBI 레이블링된 200문장을 기반으로 하였으며, 코퍼스로부터 한 문장을 선택하여 이를 목적치 패턴으로 선정 한 후, 목적치 패턴과 후보사이의 단위비용과 후보들 간의 연결비용을 계산하여 최적의 합성단위열을 추출하는 방식으로 이루어졌다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문맥종속 단위 기반의 합성단위 추출 알고리즘과 실험 결과에 대해 보고한다.