• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.47-63
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• 2010

This study provides a description of the glottal characteristics of the word-initial low vowels /a, $\ae$/ in terms of a set of acoustic parameters and discusses glottal configuration as their acoustic correlates. Furthermore, it examines the effect of prosodic boundary on the glottal properties of the vowels, seeking an account of the possible role of prosodic structure based on prosodic theory. Acoustic parameters reported to indicate glottal characteristics were obtained from the measurements made directly from the speech spectrum on recordings of Korean and English collected from 45 speakers. They consist of two separate groups of native Korean and native English speakers, each including both male and female speakers. Based on the three acoustic parameters of open quotient (OQ), first-formant bandwidth (B1), and spectral tilt (ST), comparisons were made between the speech of males and females, between the speech of native Korean and native English speakers, and between Korean and English produced by native Korean speakers. Acoustic analysis of the experimental data indicates that some or all glottal parameters play a crucial role in differentiating the speech groups, despite substantial interspeaker variations. Statistical analysis of the Korean data indicates prosodic strengthening with respect to the acoustic parameters B1 and OQ, suggesting acoustic enhancement in terms of the degree of glottal abduction and the glottal closure during a vibratory cycle.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제15_18호
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• pp.19-34
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• 1989

There is general agreement that voice onset time (VOT) is functionally related with the glottal opening at the moment of the oral release of a stop. However, systematic investigations of tempo 8n4 the place of articulation as affecting the glottal opening and VOT have relatively neglected. Various instrumental techniques were used to verify the claim with BrEng and korean speakers, under controlled experimental conditions, tempo being one of them. It was found that voiceless aspiration (i.e. VOT) is not simply a function of the glottal area at the moment of the oral release of a stop as it is normally defined in the existing literature. Within a given place of articulation and across temper VOT was generally insignificantly related to the glottal area. It is inferred that the glottal adduction onset time for the following vowel is actively control led by the speaker to meet aerodynamic requirements in relation to class (i.e. aspirated and unaspirated) and tempo. Some possible underlying physiological mechanisms for various phonetic aspects of intervocalic stops, associated with the glottal area and VOT, were discussed.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.78-82
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• 1999

본 연구는 잡음에 강한 음성 파라미터로써 널리 사용하는 가중 켑스트럼에 관한 연구이다. 특히 청각 모델인 PLP(Perceptual Linear Predictive)에서 켑스트럼을 추출 후 비대칭형 성문 펄스 파형 형태를 가중치 함수로 사용하는 방법을 제안한다. 또한 이러한 가중 켑스트럼을 성도 모델에서의 성도파형과 켑스트럼과 연관하여 분석하였다. 그리고 청각 모델인 PLP의 켑스트럼에 가중시켜 청각 모델과 성도 모델을 모두 적용한 음성 파라미터를 얻었다. 이러한 방법의 성능 평가를 위해 차량내 잡음과 길거리에서의 잡음 환경에서의 고립 단어 인식 실험을 하였다. 그리고 기존의 LP(Linear Prediction)에 의한 가중된 윈도우 켑스트럼 및 PLP에 의한 가중된 Liftering 켑스트럼 등과 비교하였다. 모의 실험 결과는 기존의 가중된 cepstrum 보다 제안하는 성문 가중 켑스트럼이 보다 높은 인식율을 보여준다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.159-167
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• 1985

男性話者가 發音한 韓國語 母音/아, 에, 이, 오, 우/의 聲門波를 직접 抽出하여 音聲에 따라 성문파가 각각 다르다는 것을 확인하였다. 具現한 5가지의 성문파로 母音을 다시 合成하여 聲門波形이 音聲合成에 미치는 영향을 波形的으로 비교하였다. 상문파의 모양, 개방시간과 폐쇄기간에 따라 合成音聲波形은 變化가 있었으며, 聲門波形이 合成音質向上의 중요 factor로 作用함을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.5-9
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• 2005

Background and Objectives : Glottal area waveform(GAW) shows the plot of glottal area versus time through the 1 cycle. This study is designed to see how it can be applied to laryngeal patients. Material and Methods : A GAW analysis was peformed on 11 patients before and after surgery and 22 persons without laryngeal problems were recruited for control. Acoustic and aerodynamic analysis with VHI(voice handicap index) evaluation were performed. Results. Significant changes in baseline offset, gross closing rate and VHI were observed postoperatively. Other parameters were changed but insignificant. Conclusion : GAW maybe used to evaluate patient with voice problems.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 2002년도 하계학술발표대회 논문집 제21권 1호
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• pp.65-68
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• 2002

현재 음성인식기는 다 채널의 음성입력방식을 사용하고 있는 추세이다. 이런 방법으로 음성인식기를 사용할 때에 자동적으로 음성을 검출하는 음성입력 방식은 발성자와 마이크간의 거리에 따라 Glottal Spectrum 성분이 변하는 특성을 가지고 있다. 이러한 Glottal Spectrum 성분은 a=R1/R0 (LPC 포락선의 기울기) 로 나타낼 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 발성자와 마이크 거리에 따른 Glottal Spectrum 성분을 비교 분석 하고자 한다.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.39-42
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• 1995

Surgical treatment options of symptomatic unilateral vocal fold paralysis are Teflon injection, type Ⅰ thyroplasty, and arytenoid adduction. Arytenoid adduction is preferable to type Ⅰ thyroplasty for correcting the level different that may be present between two vocal folds and the large glottal chink However there is no known therapeutic modality effective to correct the large posterior glottal chink of the vocal fold with relatively normal mobility. Recently we have experienced a case of severe large posterior glottal chink of the vocal 1314s with relatively normal mobility after thyroid lobectomy, successfully treated with type Ⅰ thyroplasty combined with arytenoid adduction.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.71-78
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• 1998

Type Ⅰ thyuroplasty in conjunction with arytenoid adduction is one of the excellent techniques in the treatment of unilateral vocal fold paralysis. But perioperative objective evaluation of the patients is difficult. With the development of the videostroboscopy and image analysis program, we could quantify the Glottal Area Waveform(GAW) in patients with unilateral vocal fold paralysis and investigated the relationship between the glottal area and aerodynamic and acoustic parameters. Eight female patients who were performed type Ⅰ thyroplasty in conjunction with arytenoid adduction and 5 females with normal vocal function were involved in this study. Preoperative and postoperative videostroboscopy and vocal function study wire performed. GAW was analysed quantitatively with image analysis program (Kay Stroboscope Image analysis, KSIP) Peak Glottal Area(PGA), Baseline Offset(BO), and Closing Phase(CP) were increased in patients with unilateral vocal fold paralysis and they were reduced after the operation. Mean flow Rate (MFR) was well correlated with the PGA in normal control group and unilateral vocal fold paralysis patients. Noise to harmonic ratio(NHR) was correlated with PGA only in preoperative unilateral vocal fold paralysis patients. In conclusion quantitative measurement of the GAW is useful method in evaluation of unilateral vocal f31d paralysis patients.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.18-26
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• 1997

There are two types of phonetic study, acoustic and physiologic, for differentiating the three manner categories of Korean stop consonants. On the physiologic studies, there are endoscopic, electromyographic(EMG), electroglottographic(EGG) and aerodynamic studies. In this study, I tried to investigate general features of Korean stops using EGG study for the open quotient of vocal fold and baseline shift during speech, and aerodynamic characteristics for e subglottal air pressure, air flow and glottal resistance at consonants. On the aerodynamic study, the glottalized and aspirated stops may be characterized by e increasing subglottal pressure comparing with lenis stop at consonants. The airflow is largest in the aspirated stops followed by lenis stops and glottalized. The glottal airway resistance (GAR) showed highest in the glottalized followed by the lenis, but lowest in e aspirated during e production of consonants, and showed highest in e aspirated, but low in the glottalized and lenis during the production of vowel. The glottal resistance at consonant showed significant difference among consonants and significant interaction between subject and types of consonant. The glottal resistance at vowel showed significant difference among consonants, and e interaction occured between subject and types of consonant. The electroglottography(EGG) has been used for investigating e functioning of e vocal folds during its vibration. The EGG should be related to the patterns of the vocal fold vibration during phonation in characterizing the temporal patterns of each vibratory cycle. The purpose of this study is to investigate the dynamic change of EGG waveforms during continuous speech. The dynamic changes of EGG waveforms fir the three-way distinction of Korean stops were characterized that the aspirated stop appears to be characterized by largest open quotient and smallest glottal contact area of the vocal folds in e initial portion of vocal fold vibration ; the lenis stop by moderate open quotient and glottal contact area ; but the glottalized stop by smallest open quotient and largest glottal contact area. There may be close relationship between the OQ(open quotient) in the initial voice onset and the glottal width at the time of consonant production, the larger glottal width just before vocal fold vibration results in the smaller OQ of the vocal fold vibration in the initial voice onset. The EGG changes of baseline shift during continuous speech production were characterized by the different patterns for the three types of Korean consonants. The small and less stiffness change of baseline shift was found for the lenis and the glottalized, and the largest and stiffest change was found for the aspirated. On the baseline shift for the initial voice onset, they showed so similar patterns with for the consonant production, larger changed in the aspirated. for the lenis and the glottalized during the initial voice onset, three subjects showed individual difference each other. I suggest at s characteristics were strongly related with articulatory activity of vocal tract for the production of consonant, especially for the aspirated stop. The suspecting factors to affect EGG waveforms are glottal width, vertical laryngeal movement and the intrapharyngeal pressure to neighboring tissue during connected spech. So the EGG may be an useful method to describe laryngeal activity to classify pulsing conditions of the larynx during speech production, and EGG research can be controls for monitoring the vocal tract articulation, although above factors to affect EGG would have played such a potentially role on vocal fold vibratory behavior obtained using consonant production.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.2792-2799
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 화자 인식의 성능을 개선하기 위해서 glottal flow로부터 source mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (SMFCC), 왜도, 첨도를 추출하여 활용하였다. 일반적으로 glottal flow의 고주파 대역은 응답의 크기가 평탄하므로 미리 정한 차단주파수 미만에 대해서만 SMFCC를 추출한다. 추출된 SMFCC, 왜도, 첨도는 종래의 특징 파라미터와 결합된 후 종래의 화자인식 시스템과 동등한 조건에서의 성능 비교를 위하여 principal component analysis (PCA) 및 linear discriminiat analysis (LDA)를 통한 차원축소가 행해진다. 대용량의 화자인식 실험결과를 통해서 제안된 인식 시스템이 종래의 화자인식 시스템 보다 더 좋은 성능을 나타냄을 확인할 수 있었으며, 특히 가우시안 혼합이 낮을 때 더 높은 성능향상을 나타내었다.