• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.11
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• pp.1372-1379
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• 2015

This paper presents an analysis of feature extraction methods used for distinguishing the speech of patients with cleft palates and people with normal palates. This research is a basic study on the development of a software system for automatic recognition and restoration of speech disorders, in pursuit of improving the welfare of speech disabled persons. Monosyllable voice data for experiments were collected for three groups: normal speech, cleft palate speech, and simulated clef palate speech. The data consists of 14 basic Korean consonants, 5 complex consonants, and 7 vowels. Feature extractions are performed using three well-known methods: LPC, MFCC, and PLP. The pattern recognition process is executed using the acoustic model GMM. From our experiments, we concluded that the MFCC method is generally the most effective way to identify speech distortions. These results may contribute to the automatic detection and correction of the distorted speech of cleft palate patients, along with the development of an identification tool for levels of speech distortion.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2020.11a
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• pp.671-672
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• 2020

발달 장애 아동은 사회생활을 위한 언어 훈련을 진행하고 있다. 언어 훈련은 상황에 맞는 질문에 대한 답변과 행동을 위한 교육이다. 본 연구는 발달 장애 아동의 발음학습을 위해 가상상담 시스템 구축 방법론을 적용한다. 발달 장애 아동 교육을 위해서는 각 상황에 맞는 질문과 답변 등을 구성하여 교육한다. 가상상담 구축도 시나리오 형태로 시스템을 구축한다. 본 연구는 가상상담 시스템 구축 방법론을 활용하여 발달 장애 아동 발음학습을 구현하는 방법을 제시하도록 하겠다.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.11-18
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• 2015

A person with defects and the lack of hearing, has very difficult problems to listen to the sound of conversation or environment, and these problems cause wrong directions in the linguistic sense and character. We designed and implemented an application to practice and correct pronunciation of a hearing-impaired person specially. This is made as a mobile app without the limitation of time and space, and this provides practices with the level of difficulty in learning of pronunciation, taking into consideration of remedial status in pronunciation. The hearing-impaired person can train the basic pronunciation and the word pronunciation. He or she can practice basic skills in pronunciation and check the record on the practice rate and the success rate. Also, the person can improve pronunciation by self-correction function using the front camera of a smart phone.

• The korean journal of orthodontics
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.325-333
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• 2010

Objective: The aim of this study was to illustrate the circumferential comfortable retainer (CCR) as a removable maxillary retainer with good potential patient compliance and to evaluate the discomfort of the retainers including distorted speech, gagging sensation and appliance discomfort. Methods: Sixty-six orthodontic patients (male, 23; female, 43; mean age, $23.42{\pm}10.19$ years) who received orthodontic treatment with fixed orthodontic appliances were randomly assigned to two groups after debonding, a conventional wraparound retainer (CWR) group that fully covers the palate with an acrylic plate and a highly polished surface, and a circumferential comfortable retainer (CCR) group which has a horseshoe shaped base plate with three folds on the anterior region. A questionnaire that had a visual analog scale (VAS) which consists of a 100-mm horizontal line with 2 end-points labeled "no discomfort" on the left and "worst discomfort" on the right, with regard to distorted speech, gagging sensation and discomfort, was administered to patients after 4 weeks of retainer wear. The Mann-Whitney test was used to test the hypothesis that there was no difference between the two retainers. Results: Comparing distorted speech and discomfort, the CCR group significantly had lower values than the CWR group ($p$ < 0.05). Comparing gagging sensation, the CCR group had lower values than the CWR group but there were no statistically significant differences between groups ($p$ = 0.146). Conclusions: In conclusion, the results suggest that the circumferential comfortable retainer (CCR) might facilitate patient compliance and thereby improve the maintenance of the fixed orthodontic treatment outcome.

• Proceedings of the KSLP Conference
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• 1993.12a
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• pp.12-12
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• 1993

발음검사 결과 /i/에 선행되는 /ㅅ/은 정상발음을 보였으나 그 이외의 모음에 선행되는 /ㅅ/은 모두 측음화 /ㅅ/로 규척적인 오류발음을 하고 있는 증례에 대한 발음교정에서 청각자극에 의한 feedback 및 촉ㆍ시지각을 중심으로하는 전래적 발음지도 방법으로는 개선의 효과를 볼 수 없었으므로 전기적 인공구개(D.P)를 이용한 혀운동의 시각적 feedback을 중심으로한 발음지도를 시도한 즉 측음화 /ㅅ/음의 소실이 인정되고 정상구음 /ㅅ/의 출현을 보였다. (중략)

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.57-66
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• 2021

This study focuses on the issue of automatic severity classification of dysarthric speakers based on speech intelligibility. Speech intelligibility is a complex measure that is affected by the features of multiple speech dimensions. However, most previous studies are restricted to using features from a single speech dimension. To effectively capture the characteristics of the speech disorder, we extracted features of multiple speech dimensions: voice quality, prosody, and pronunciation. Voice quality consists of jitter, shimmer, Harmonic to Noise Ratio (HNR), number of voice breaks, and degree of voice breaks. Prosody includes speech rate (total duration, speech duration, speaking rate, articulation rate), pitch (F0 mean/std/min/max/med/25quartile/75 quartile), and rhythm (%V, deltas, Varcos, rPVIs, nPVIs). Pronunciation contains Percentage of Correct Phonemes (Percentage of Correct Consonants/Vowels/Total phonemes) and degree of vowel distortion (Vowel Space Area, Formant Centralized Ratio, Vowel Articulatory Index, F2-Ratio). Experiments were conducted using various feature combinations. The experimental results indicate that using features from all three speech dimensions gives the best result, with a 80.15 F1-score, compared to using features from just one or two speech dimensions. The result implies voice quality, prosody, and pronunciation features should all be considered in automatic severity classification of dysarthria.

• MALSORI
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• no.7_8
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• pp.72-79
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• 1984

이 논문은 일본의 호리따씨가 1983년 8월 고베시에서 열린 제4차 세계음성학자 대회에서 발표한 내용의 영역본이다. "음성언어의 직감적 개발"이란 부제가 붙은 "위이훠 방법"이란 호리따씨가 개발해 낸 농아와 그 밖의 언어장애자의 발음 훈련 및 교정법인데, 혀의 감각이 둔한 장애자의 혀에 종이같이 얇은 고자 조각을 붙여서 발음하게 함으로써 정확한 조음 위치를 파악하여 올바른 발음을 익히도록 하는 방법이다. 대회에서도 상당한 관심을 끈 논문이므로 우리나라의 언어치료계를 위하여 소개한다. 이 방법은 음성훈련 및 외국어의 발음교육에도 이용될 수 있을 듯 하다.

• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.355-360
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the oral health behavior and self-efficacy of adolescents. The subjects in this study were 300 selected students in a girls' high school located in the city of Iksan. A survey was conducted from November 2 to 5, 2014, with questionnaires that covered oral health behavior and self-efficacy, and the answer sheets from 298 respondents were analyzed by a statistical package IBM SPSS Statistics ver. 21.0. The group that got regular dental checkups (3.26) excelled the other group that didn't in self-efficacy (p<0.05), and the group who made use of oral care products and who brushed their teeth four times or more had a better self-efficacy than the other group that didn't. The students who considered themselves to be in better oral health scored higher in self-efficacy, and the groups who had no difficulties in pronunciation (3.66) and mastication (3.32) scored higher (p<0.01, <0.001). Masticatory dysfunction (r=-0.184) and pronunciation disorder (r=-0.200) were negatively correlated with self-efficacy, but oral health status (r=0.243) had a positive correlation with it. Self-efficacy was better when oral health status was better (p<0.001) and when there was no pronunciation disorder (p<0.01). The above-mentioned findings suggested that there was a close relationship between oral health behavior and self-efficacy. Therefore the kind of program that aims at changing youth oral health awareness and oral health behavior should be prepared to improve the self-efficacy of adolescents.

• The Journal of the Korean dental association
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• v.20 no.9 s.160
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• pp.753-758
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• 1982

선천이상 중에서도 순열과 구개열은 특상한 성질의 것으로서 안모의 변형, 발음장애, 신체타부와의 관계기형, 이비인후과질환을 병발하기 쉽고, 호흡기, 소화기 질환에 이환되기 쉬으며 환자는 정신적, 사회적으로도 매우 불리한 위치에 놓여 있는 신체장애자로, Fogh-Anderson은 순열과 구개열은 열성반성유전(recessive sexlinked heredity)을 한다고 보고했다. 그러나 구개열은 유전적추적이 불가능하기 때문에 그 발생원인으로 물리적원인을 우선적으로 들고있다. 발생기전은 태생 8~12조경의 제2차구개형성기에 어떤 이유로 양측의 구개돌기(palatine process)와 비중격이 분리되있는 채로 있든가, 접근해서도 유합되지 않고 있든가의 조해요인으로 태아의 모태내에 있어서의 자세, 특히 흉부에 의한 하악골압박에 의해 발생하는 소악증(micromandible), 설하수(glossoptosis)를 동반하는 Pierr Robin syndrome, 태생 8~10조경까지의 혀의 만기정유, 지, 제대의 원시구강내로의 미입등을 들수있다. 순열 및 구개열환자의 치료에 있어서 종래에는 전과정이 외과의사에게만 맡겨졌었으나, 구순, 비부의 추형등의 문제, 특징적으로 발생되는 하악의 열성장, 이별궁이 왜형, 발음장애등의 문제점해결을 위하여 필연적으로 이에 관계있는 명기다른 전문분야의 전문의가 시술에 임하게되는 multidiscipline approach로서 종합진단, 장기치료계획의 입안, 전문적 의견의 교환을 통해서 치료시기, 치료순서의 결정으로 성공적인 순열및 구개열의 치료목표를 달성하리라고 생각한다.

• Journal of Dental Rehabilitation and Applied Science
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.337-342
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• 2011

Congenital or traumatic loss on the oral and maxillary area or the loss of jaws due to the surgical excision of a tumor causes functional problems, such as masticatory and swallowing disorders, phonetic problems and psychological disorders in patients. In most cases, a prosthetic restoration is needed to resolve these problems and restore the damaged tissue and function. When loss occurs on the maxilla, foods and liquids leak into the nasal cavity, and a nasal sound can be heard due to air leakage into the removed area. In these cases, the palatal obturator can be used to improve the esthetic and functional aspects because it restores the removed area of the maxilla and closes the opened route between the oral cavity and maxillary sinus or nasal cavity. In this case report, a palatal obturator was applied to patients who had a hemimaxillectomy due to the occurrence of squamous cell carcinoma on the right maxillary area. Therefore, fundamental functions, such as phonetic and swallowing functions were restored, and the esthetic aspects of the facial profile were improved.