• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.60-68
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• 2018

Due to the complicated plan structure of the apartment units and the improved room-to-room sound insulation performance, it is difficult to communicate and recognize the fire situation by emergency broadcast equipment. In this study, speech intelligibility was measured and analyzed for three types of apartment unit by emergency broadcast equipment on various measurement points. Simulations were also conducted to improve the speech intelligibility. As a result of field measurements 72, 84, and 101 Type were not satisfied with NFSC standard of 90 dBA at the point of 1 m distance from source. In addition, it was evaluated that 75 dBA and CIS 0.7 of NFPA standard was not satisfied at all measurement points except for the 72 Type at living room point with door opened condition. Based on the door opened condition of the bedroom, it satisfied the NFPA of 75 dBA and CIS 0.7 in each bedroom when more than 90 dBA was satisfied at the 1 m separation point provided in NFSC standard.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.79-90
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• 2021

This single-subject study examined the effects of repetitive speech training at the word and sentence levels using speech cues on the percentage of correct consonants (PCC) and speech intelligibility of children with cerebral palsy (CP). Three children aged between 5-8 years with a history of CP participated in the study. Thirty-minute intervention sessions were provided four times a week for four weeks. The intervention included repeated training of words and sentences containing target phonemes using two instructions of speech cues, "big mouse" and "strong voice". First, the children improved their average PCC and speech intelligibility, but an effect size analysis indicated that the effect was different for each child, and the effect size for speech intelligibility was higher than for PCC. Second, the intervention effect was generalized to untrained words and sentences. Third, the maintenance effects of PCC and speech intelligibility were very high. These findings suggests that repeated speech training using speech cues is an intervention technique that can help improve PCC and speech intelligibility in children with CP.

• MALSORI
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• no.47
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• pp.141-151
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• 2003

The speech intelligibility of congenitally deafened children shows the change after cochlear implantation. The predicting factors of change in speech intelligibility are the age of implantation, the duration of implant use, and communication mode etc.. Among these factors, the age of implantation seems to be one of the most important predictors. But those factors including age of implantation can explain only some parts of the variance. Therefore, the further study to find the factors which affect the speech intelligibility should be done.

• Proceedings of the KSLP Conference
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• 1996.11a
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• pp.91-91
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• 1996

현재 시판되고 있는 전기 인공후두는 손으로 인공후두를 경부에 장착하고, 음의 intensity와 pitch를 변하기 위하여 스위치를 손가락으로 조절해야만 하는데, 실제 회화 중에 잘 조절한다는 것은 거의 불가능하므로, 음질과 명료도가 나쁘며, 발성을 의도했을 때 자유롭게 발성하는 것도 어렵다. 또한 회화 중에는 한손은 항상 전기 인공후두를 위해 사용해야 한다. 이러한 단점을 개선하기 위해, 본 연구에서는 흉골설골근 근전위에 의해 제어되는 인공후두를 제작하여 그 성능을 평가하였다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.141-144
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• 2000

최근에 무선통신망을 이용한 데이터 서비스가 폭넓게 제공되면서, 이동체(MS:mobile station)에 대한 위치정보나 교통상황 둥의 부가 정보 서비스가 제공되고 있다. 이와 같이 이동체가 자동차와 같은 운행수단일 때 사용자가 디스플레이 되는 문자정보를 확인하게 되면 운전의 안정성이 저하되어 실용적이지 못하다. 이를 위해서 문자를 음성으로 전환하여 주는 문자-음성변환기(text to speech : TTS)가 필요하다. 본 논문은 car navigation용 '한국어 무제한 어휘 음성합성기' 를 저가의 DSP chip(ADSP-2185)과 저용량의 4M bits ROM을 사용하여 low-cost system으로 하드웨어를 구성하였다. 본 연구에서 개발된 실시간 한국어 음성 합성기는 저가의 통신 단말기로서 사용 될 수 있으나, 반음절 연결부분의 연결이 불완전한 경우가 많았다. 그러나 종성이 없는 음절에 대해서는 명료도가 비교적 우수하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.171-172
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• 2010

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.53-60
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• 2015

We conducted a long-term and short-term usability testing on the built-in speech synthesizer of a screen-reader for the people with visual impairments. A total of 20 persons with visual impairments participated in the short-term usability testing, and 10 of them participated in the long-term usability testing. Naturalness and clarity of the synthetic speech were evaluated by MOS scores, preference for various synthetic speeches was examined through a preference test, and the users' satisfaction level and other requirements for the synthetic speech were evaluated by open feedback. We also examined naturalness, clarity, preference, and user requirements for the synthetic speech through a long-term usability testing. Then, we compare and contrast the long-term and short-term usability testing results.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.113-123
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• 2023

This paper describes the acoustical conditions of elementary school and high school classrooms as well as university classrooms in Korea and suggests a need for Korean acoustic standards and guidelines for classroom design. Current standards and guidelines of classroom acoustics in several countries were briefly introduced to understand their acoustical performance criteria for background noise levels and reverberation times, and noise isolation design requirements in various types of classrooms. The results of several acoustic survey of domestic classrooms in elementary school, high school, and university were described and compared to provide information of the acoustic characteristics of Korean school classrooms. The survey includes occupied and unoccupied data on the acoustical conditions, noise levels, and noise isolation performance in the classrooms. Acoustical parameter values for achieving 'good' speech intelligibility in active university classrooms were also presented.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.95-103
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• 2020

The current study aimed to identify the characteristics of speech rate and pause in children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP) and their relationships with speech intelligibility. In all, 26 children with CP, 4 with no speech motor involvement and age-appropriate language ability (NSMI-LCT), 6 with no speech motor involvement and impaired language ability (NSMI-LCI), 6 with speech motor involvement and age-appropriate language ability (SMI- LCT), and 10 with speech motor involvement and impaired language ability (SMI-LCI) participated in the study. Speech samples for the speech rate and pause analysis were extracted using a sentence repetition task. Acoustic analysis were made in Praat. First, it was found that regardless of the presence of language impairment, significant group differences between the NSMI and SMI groups were found in speech rate and articulation rate. Second, the SMI groups showed a higher ratio of pause time to sentence production time, more frequent pauses, and longer durations of pauses than the NSMI groups. Lastly, there were significant correlations among speech rate, articulation rate, and intelligibility. These findings suggest that slow speech rate is the main feature in SMI groups, and that both speech rate and articulation rate play important roles in the intelligibility of children with spastic CP.

• MALSORI
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• no.50
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• pp.99-110
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• 2004

The normal transmission characteristics of sound are hardly obtained due to the various noises and structural factors in a running car environment. It is due to the channel distortion of the original source sound recorded by microphones, and it seriously degrades the performance of the speech recognition in real driving environments. In this paper we analyze the degree of intelligibility under the various sound distortion environments by channels according to driving speed with respect to speech transmission index(STI) and compare the STI with rates of speech recognition. We examine the correlation between measures of intelligibility depending on sound pick-up patterns and performance in speech recognition. Thereby we consider the optimal location of a microphone in single channel environment. In experimentation we find that high correlation is obtained between STI and rates of speech recognition.