• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
• /
• 2002.04b
• /
• pp.1073-1076
• /
• 2002

정보 검색시 질의어가 외래어일 경우에 검색의 재현율은 급격하게 감소된다. 이는 외래어에서 나오는 음역어의 불일치와 영어외래어, 한글음역어는 같은 색인으로 처리가 되지 않기 때문이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 영어외래어를 한글음역어로 자동 변환시키고, 자동 변환시에는 영어음소에 해당하는 발음값을 한글음소로 모두 변환시킨 다음 조합하였다. 조합된 음역어들은 다시 동치부류 DB에 저장되어, 질의어 검색시 검색어가 동치부류 색인어로 확장되어 검색된다. 제안한 검색시스템의 성능을 평가하기 위해서 재현율을 측정하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
• /
• v.42 no.1
• /
• pp.75-82
• /
• 2023

The purpose of this study was to investigate listener's affective responses to different vocal registers and modes in terms of valence (i.e., negative to positive affect) and arousal (i.e., low to high energy level). The data were collected from four different conditions (i.e., higher and lower registers paired with major and minor modes). A total of 188 female college students participated in the survey online and rated their perceived valence and arousal levels on a visual analogue scale after listening to each excerpt. The two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was administered for data analysis. The results revealed that there were significant differences in the affective responses to the two vocal registers, showing that the arousal was more affected by the register than the valence. Secondly, mode had statistically significant impact on both valence and arousal while weighing more on valence. Further, there was significant interaction effect of vocal register and mode on valence, but not on arousal. Results also displayed that listeners had the most negative valence when listening to the excerpt of minor mode in higher register, while having the lowest arousal when listening to the excerpt of minor mode in lower register. These findings imply that it is important to consider the vocal range as well as the musical mode when selecting music for appreciation.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
• /
• v.16 no.2
• /
• pp.37-47
• /
• 2024

This study was conducted on 27 male students majoring in or preparing for popular music vocals to determine whether they were aware of their voice classification and vocal range. Additionally, differences in the fundamental frequency and average speaking fundamental frequency were compared among the voice classifications. Moreover, considering that they may differ in their ability to produce high frequencies depending on the vowel, differences in voice ranges among the cardinal vowels, /a/, /i/, and /u/, were examined, and differences in voice ranges between vowels were compared by voice classification. The results showed that more than half of the male students majoring in or preparing for popular music vocals were not accurately aware of their voice types. In addition, statistically significant differences were found in the maximum fundamental frequency and frequency range among vowels, indicating differences in the voice range that can be produced depending on the vowel type. In particular, the voice range decreased in the following order: /a/>/u/>/i/. This suggests that while the vowel /a/ is easier to articulate in the high register compared to other vowels, vowels /u/ and /i/ as high vowels involve narrowing of the oral cavity due to the raised position of the tongue, accompanied by raising of the larynx, resulting in a decrease in voice range and difficulty in vocalizing in the high register.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
• /
• 2020.05a
• /
• pp.567-569
• /
• 2020

여러 악기가 섞여 있는 음원으로부터 원하는 악기 소리를 추출하는 음원 분리 기법 중 최근 신경망 기반 시스템이 활발히 연구되고 있다. 악기마다 고유의 음역대를 가진다는 사실에 감안하여, 연구진은 기존 음원 분리 신경망에 적은 수의 학습 파라미터를 추가하여 학습 속도를 대폭 향상시킬 수 있는 음역대 강조 기법을 제안한다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
• /
• 2020.10a
• /
• pp.42-44
• /
• 2020

TTS(Text-to-Speech) 시스템을 위해서는 한글 이외의 문자열을 한글로 변환해줄 필요가 있다. 이러한 문자열에는 숫자, 특수문자 등의 문자열이 포함되어 있다. 특히 숫자의 경우, 숫자가 사용되는 문맥에 따라 그 발음방법이 달라지는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 규칙기반과 한정된 문맥 정보만을 활용할 수 있는 방법이 아닌, 딥러닝을 이용한 방법으로 문맥에 따라 발음방법이 달라지는 숫자 음역의 모호성을 해소하는 방법을 소개한다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
• /
• 2018.10a
• /
• pp.449-452
• /
• 2018

TTS(Text-to-Speech)는 문자열을 입력받아 그 문자열을 음성으로 변환하는 음성합성 기술이다. 그러나 실제 입력되는 문장에는 한글뿐만 아니라 영단어 및 숫자 등이 혼합되어 있다. 영단어는 대소문자에 따라 다르게 읽을 수 있으며, 단위로 사용될 때는 약어로 사용되는 것이므로, 알파벳 단위로 읽어서는 안 된다. 숫자 또한 함께 사용되는 단어에 따라 읽는 방식이 달라진다. 본 논문에서는 한글과 숫자 및 단위, 영단어가 혼합된 문장을 분류하고 이를 음역하는 시스템을 구성하며 word vector를 이용한 숫자 및 단위의 모호성 해소방법을 소개한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
• /
• v.27 no.2
• /
• pp.95-115
• /
• 2010

The purpose of this study is to investigate how individuals assess Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) transliterated bibliographic information on current library catalogs. Two separate studies, a survey and an experiment, were conducted using the WorldCat system. Users noted that Romanization has many issues which can inhibit user‘s ability to understand the transliterated bibliographic information even when it is in the person’s own native language and even when the individual had extensive experience with transliteration systems. The experimental results also supported these findings: participants had better results and satisfaction when looking for information written in English than when searching for transliterated information written in their native language. Implications for future research suggests a need to investigate user preferences for translation vs. transliteration of bibliographic information. This study proposes consideration of using English translation as a parallel link with CJK Romanization for bibliographic information.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
• /
• v.13 no.4
• /
• pp.35-46
• /
• 2021

In this study, we examined the interactive aspects between pitch reduction phenomena considered a universal language phenomenon and native language interference in the production of L2 intonation performed by Chinese learners of Korean. To investigate their interaction, we conducted an acoustic analysis using acoustic measures such as pitch span, pitch level, pitch dynamic quotient, skewness, and kurtosis. In addition, the correlation between text comprehension and pitch was examined. The analyzed material consisted of four Korean discourses containing five and seven sentences of varying difficulty. Seven Korean native speakers and thirty Chinese learners who differed in their Korean proficiency participated in the production test. The results, for differences by language, showed that Chinese had a more expanded pitch span, and a higher pitch level than Korean. The analysis between groups showed that at the beginner and intermediate levels, pitch reduction was prominent, i.e., their Korean was characterized by a compressed pitch span, low pitch level, and less sentence internal pitch variation. Contrariwise, the pitch use of advanced speakers was most similar to Korean native speakers. There was no significant correlation between text difficulty and pitch use. Through this study, we observed that pitch reduction was more pronounced than native language interference in the phonetic layer.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
• /
• v.16 no.4
• /
• pp.377-386
• /
• 2016

The purpose of this study was to compare the vocal range between the older and young adults depending on the absence and presence of pitch cues. Participants were 44 older adults aged from 60 to 85 years and 59 college students aged from 19 to 25 years. Each participant was instructed to vocalize for examining the possible highest pitch to the lowest pitch in two conditions; with and without pitch cues. Without pitch cues, the maximum and minimum pitch of male participants was higher in the older adults than in the young adults group, while the minimum pitch of females was lower in the older adults group than in the young adults group. When presented with pitch cues, young adults could expand their vocal range, but the older adults showed no significant changes in produced vocal ranges. The results indicate that the range of voice in older adults may be affected by aging and these results can be beneficial when selecting the appropriate range of song for singing activities with older adults.

• 발명특허
• /
• v.17 no.2 s.192
• /
• pp.49-53
• /
• 1992