• 음성과학
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• 제2권
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• pp.25-44
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• 1997

When listening the various speech synthesis systems developed and being used in our country, we find that though the quality of these systems has improved, they lack naturalness. Moreover, since the voice color of these systems are limited to only one recorded speech DB, it is necessary to record another speech DB to create different voice colors. 'Voice Color' is an abstract concept that characterizes voice personality. So speech synthesis systems need a voice color control function to create various voices. The aim of this study is to examine several factors of voice color control rules for the text-to-speech system which makes natural and various voice types for the sounding of synthetic speech. In order to find such rules from natural speech, glottal source parameters and frequency characteristics of the vocal tract for several voice colors have been studied. In this paper voice colors were catalogued as: deep, sonorous, thick, soft, harsh, high tone, shrill, and weak. For the voice source model, the LF-model was used and for the frequency characteristics of vocal tract, the formant frequencies, bandwidths, and amplitudes were used. These acoustic parameters were tested through multiple regression analysis to achieve the general relation between these parameters and voice colors.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제21_24호
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• pp.3-24
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• 1992

This study was designed to investigate the changes of phonological processes in normal Korean children aged from 2- to 6-years. Forty eight children who lived in Seoul or Kyung-Ki do were tested with a picture articulation test and their articulation errors including omissions, additions and substitutions were coded into phonological processes. Those phonological processes were discussed in several ways: syllable structure, place, manner, assimilation, tenseness, and aspiration of sounds. Data were analyzed by two ways: (1) number of subjects who showed each process and (2) percentage of occurrence of each process. Analyses in omission-addition processes demonstrated that postvocalic omission occurred most frequently, followed by velar-, alveolar-, and glottal omission. Analyses in substitution processes showed that fronting (palatal and velar), backing (alveolar), and alveolization occurred most frequently in terms of the place of sounds. In terms of assimilation, alveolar-, stopping, and aspiration assimilation occurred frequently. Analyses by the tenseness and aspiration showed similar occurrences among the 4 processes, with slightly higher occurrences in tensing and aspiration than lanxing and deaspiration. All of the processes decreased by age. The numbers of the processes showed by more than half of the children or exceeded 10％ of occurrence were 20 in 2-years of age, 10 in 3-years of age, 1 in 4-years of age, and none in ages of 5 and 6.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.65-71
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether young children with cleft palate differ from those of noncleft typically developing children in terms of expressive vocabulary size, phonological characteristics and lexical selectivity. A total of 12 children with cleft palate and 12 noncleft children who were matched by age and gender participated in the study. The groups were compared by size of expressive vocabulary reported on Korean version of MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories and the number of different words, consonant inventory, the percentage of words beginning with obstruents and vowels, nasal, and glottal sounds, and the percentage of words which do not include obstruents in a language sample. Also, correlation analysis were performed to examine the relationship between measures on size of expressive vocabulary and phonological characteristics. The results showed that expressive vocabulary size and consonant inventory for children with cleft palate produced significantly smaller than those for noncleft children. Children with cleft palate produced significantly more words beginning with vowel or which do not include obstruents, and fewer words beginning with obstruents than noncleft children. The two groups showed different results on significant correlations between measures on size of expressive vocabulary and phonological characteristics indicating that children with cleft palate show different lexical selectivity from their noncleft peers. The results suggest that children with cleft palate aged 18-30 months demonstrate a slower rate of lexical and phonological development compared with their noncleft peers and they develop lexical selectivity reflecting cleft palate speech. The results will have a clinical implication on speech-language intervention for young children with cleft palates.

• 대한기관식도과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기관식도과학회 1993년도 제27차 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.71-71
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• 1993

이중음성이란 성대진동이 정상이 아닌 유사주기성에 의해 양측 성대진동의 위상차이때문에 발생되는 소리로서 대표적으로 양측성대의 긴장불균형(tension imbalance)시와 양측성대 사이의 높이차이(level difference)시에 발성직전의 성문열림의 정도에 따라 성대진동의 주기가 서로 다르기 때문에 이중음성이 발생한다고 한다. 그러나 실제 이러한 현상은 일측성대 마비환자뿐 아니라 성대의 점막부위에 증가된 질량효과에 의해 이중음성이 나타날 수 있는데 대표적으로 성대내 낭종이라 하겠다. 본 연구에서는 청각적으로 이중음성을 나타낸 일측성대마비, 성대내낭종 및 성대육아종 등 수술을 받았던 19례를 대상으로 음향학적 분석중 음성파형을 이용한 분석을 한 결과 유사주기성 음성파형에 대한 특징들중에서 파형수, peak변이도, 잡음의 정도등이 각질환에 따라 다른 양상을 보여 이중음성의 발생기전이 질환에 따라 다름을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한기관식도과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기관식도과학회 1993년도 제27차 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.74-74
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• 1993

다양한 원인에 의하여 야기되는 편측성대마비에 의한 애성을 치료하기 위하여 현재 사용되고 있는 방법으로는 테프론이나 실리콘 등의 성대내 주입술, 갑상연골성형술 등이 있다. 그러나 성대부전이 너무 크거나, 양측성대의 위상차이가 심한 경우에는 상기 수술법으로는 만족스러운 결과를 얻기가 용이하지 않다. 이런 경우에 피열연골의 근돌기를 외과적으로 노출시킨 후 측전방으로 당겨줌으로써 성대의 내전을 유도할 수 있는 피열연골내전술(arytenoid adduction)로 음성개선을 도모할 수 있다. 최근 저자들은 애성을 주소로 영동세브란스병원 이비인후과로 내원하였던 편측성대마비 환자 3예에서 보다 만족할만한 음성개선의 결과를 도모하고자 피열연골내전술을 시행하여 좋은 결과를 얻었기에 보고하는 바이다.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.7-10
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• 2007

Unilateral vocal fold paralysis resulting in glottal incompetence can cause significant morbidity attributable to impaired speech, swallowing, and ability to protect the airway. The treatment of unilateral vocal cord paralysis has a long history, marked by technical innovations and improvements. These methods typically use endoscopic injection or implants to augment the volume of the affected vocal fold. The first known treatment, reported by Brunnings in 1911, was paraffin injection. The first thyroplasty medializing the paralysed vocal cord was performed by Payr in 1915 ; here, a cartilage door-flap was created from the thyroid ala to obtain better voice quality. In the 1970s, Isshiki systematized and developed the use of the external medialization by Payr. Later he modified his original technique, and achieved safer and better results. Many other methods were introduced for external medialization during the 1980s and 1990s. There has been couple of materials using for medialization laryngoplasty: silicone bloc, cartilage, goretex (polytetrafluoroethylene), titanium, etc. Among them, silicone bloc is the most popularly used material. Type I thyroplasty in combination with arytenoid adduction is a proven technique for medialization of the paralysed vocal fold. In this paper, personal experience for using silicone bloc type I thyroplasty : decision making and practical points, long-term results and complication of the procedure will be discussed.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.661-669
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze Deep Learning (DL) and Digital Image Processing (DIP) techniques using the results of the glottis segmentation of the two methods followed by the quantification of the asymmetric degree of the vocal cord mucosa. The data consists of 40 normal and abnormal images. The DL model is based on Deeplab V3 architecture, and the Canny edge detector algorithm and morphological operations are used for the DIP technique. According to the segmentation results, the average accuracy of the DL model and the DIP was 97.5% and 94.7% respectively. The quantification results showed high correlation coefficients for both the DL experiment (r=0.8512, p<0.0001) and the DIP experiment (r=0.7784, p<0.0001). In the conclusion, the DL model showed relatively higher segmentation accuracy than the DIP. In this paper, we propose the clinical applicability of this technique applying the segmentation and asymmetric quantification algorithm to the glottal area in the laryngoscopic images.

• 산학경영연구
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• 제5권
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• pp.241-274
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• 1992

General American English(=A.E.) has conservative elements as well as progressive elements. A.E. and B.E. are languages which have more similarities than differances. In this paper. I studied the process of English progress before the A.E. had come into being, and the historical background and the cahristics of A.E. coming into being. Considering the differences between A.E. and B.E. from spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar, I can give the outline as follows. A spelling 1. B.E. : au, ou $${\rightarrow}$$A.E. : a, o 2. B.E. : e $${\rightarrow}$$A.E. : i 3. B.E. : $${\ae}$$ oe $${\rightarrow}$$A.E. : e 4. B.E. : our $${\rightarrow}$$A.E. : or 5. B.E. : re $${\rightarrow}$$A.E. : er B. pronunciation 1. B.E. : [e] $${\rightarrow}$$A.E. : [i], [e], $$[\partial]$$ 2. B.E. : [a] $${\rightarrow}$$A.E. : 3. B.E. : [i(:)] $${\rightarrow}$$A.E. : [ai], $$[\partial]$$, $$[{\varepsilon}]$$ 4. B.E. : $$[{\ae}]$$ $${\rightarrow}$$A.E. : [e], [c] 5. B.E. : [ai] $${\rightarrow}$$A.E. : $$[{\ae}]$$, [e] 6. B.E. : [c] $${\rightarrow}$$A.E. : [e], [a], [o] 7. In case of "Vowel+[t]+Vowel", [t] is pronounced into [d] or [r] 8. In case of "-nt", [t] becomes a mute. 9. [t]+[j, l, m, n, r, u, or, w] $${\rightarrow}$$A.E. : [?] (=glottal stop) 10. B.E. : [w] $${\rightarrow}$$A.E. : [hw] 11. B.E. : [Voiceless consonants], [Voiced consonants] $${\leftarrow}$$A.E. : [Voiced consonants], [Voiceless consonants] C. Vocabulary The historical background and geographical conditions of those days caused lots of new compounds and neologies. D. Grammar Though we use "of" to indicate the possessive case of inanimate object, -s genitive is used in A.E. In the perfect tense, "have" is often omitted and also auxiliary verb "will" is used in any case

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.43-48
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• 2006

Background and Objectives: Countertenors who can produce higher vocal pitch like female classical singer's voice and use both modal and falsetto register. This study was conducted to study phonatory characteristics between modal and falsetto register of the countertenor. Materials and Methods: A male countertenor who had 8 years of experience was examined using a videostroboscopy and his voice was analyzed using aerodynamic measures; fundamental frequency(F0), Mean air flow rate(MFR), intensity(SLP), subglottal air pressure(Psub) with phonatory function analyzer(Nagashima) and acoustic measures; jitter, shimmer, HNR, closed quotient(CQ) using a Electro-glottography(EGG) of Lx. Speech Studio(Laryngoscope, Ltd, UK) and voice range profile of CSL(Kay elemetrics). Results: In the stroboscopy finding, the longitudinal length of vocal folds was increased at the falsetto register and the upper margin of vocal folds vibrated with incomplete closure of true vocal folds. In aerodynamic analysis, intensity was same at the modal and falsetto register. However, MFR, Psub, MPT were higher at the falsetto register. In the electroglottographic analysis, closed quotient(CQ) at the modal register was high and also much higher at the high-pitch falsetto than at the loud falsetto. In the VRP, intensity was similar though F0 was different between modal and falsetto register. Conclusion: It implied that countertenor could produce powerful voice quality by increasing of respiratory pressure and respiratory volume though glottal closure was incomplete. In addition, no change of EGG waveform, similar voice range with alto was observed.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제5권10호
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• pp.2725-2736
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• 1998

본 논문은 WRLS-VFF-VT 알고리듬을 이용한 새로운 피치 검색 방법론을 제안하도록 한다. 제안된 알고리듬에서는 VFF(가변 망각 인자)를 사용하여 유성음에서의 주 여기 펄스 시점과 관련된 성문 폐쇄 점을 확인한다. 또한 본 논문은 VFF 기반 알고리듬과 함께 기존의 EGG 와 LP-Error 방법을 이용한 피치 검색 알고리듬에서 가변 한계 값을 이용 수정된 알고리듬을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리듬들은 주기와 주기 근간에서 강인한 피치 측정 능력과 준 주기 및 비 주기성 음성 신호에서도 우수한 피치 검색 기능을 가지고 있음을 알 수 있다. 제안된 알고리듬의 우수성을 입증하기 위해 실제 사람의 자연스러운 음성 및 사람의 비정상 상태 음성에서 준 주기 및 비 주기성 음성 진동 패턴을 확인하고 검출하는 성능 측정을 통하여 표준 SIFT 알고리듬과 비교 평가하였다.