• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2005년도 춘계 학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.21-24
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• 2005

This paper presents durational characteristics of Korean Lombard speech using data, which consist of 500 Lombard utterances and 500 normal utterances of 10 speakers (5 males and 5 females). Each file was segmented and labeled manually and the duration of each segment and each word was extracted. The durational change of Lombard effect in comparison with normal speech was analyzed using a statistical method. The results show that the duration of words with Lombard effect is increased in comparison with normal style, and that the average unvoiced consonantal duration is reduced while the average vocalic duration is increased. Female speakers show a stronger tendency towards lengthening the duration in Lombard speech, but without statistical significance. Finally, this study also shows that the speakers of Lombard speech could be classified according to their different duration rate.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.115-122
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• 2016

This study investigates the acoustic-phonetic features and speech intelligibility of Lombard speech in children with intellectual disability, by examining the effect of Lombard speech at 3 levels of non-noise, 55dB, and 65dB. Eight children with intellectual disability read sentences and played speaking games, and their speech were analyzed in terms of intensity, pitch, vowel space of /a/, /i/, and /u/, VAI(3), articulation rate and speech intelligibility. Results showed, first, that intensity and pitch increased as noise level increased; second, that VAI(3) increased as the noise level increased; third, that articulation rate decreased as noise intensity increased; finally, that speech intelligibility increased as noise intensity increased. The Lombard speech changed the VAI(3), vowel space, articulation rate, speech intelligibility of the children with intellectual disability as well. This study suggests that the Lombard speech will be clinically useful for the persons who have intellectual disability and difficulties in self-control.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제35S권12호
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• pp.93-102
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 잡음에 의해 기인된 음성의 왜곡을 제거하여 음성인식기의 성능을 향상시키는 방법을 기술한다. 잡음 환경에서는 음성의 발성 방식이 변이하고(롬바드효과), 잡음이 음성신호에 첨가되므로 음성인식기의 성능을 저하시킨다. 롬바드 효과는 주변 잡음의 크기나 종류, 화자의 특성과 음소 등에 종속적인 비선형적인 변환이므로 측정방법이 알려져 있지 않았다. 본 연구에서는 롬바드 효과의 크기를 측정하는 방법을 제시하고, 롬바드 효과의 크기에 따른 롬바드 효과의 보정방법을 제안한다. 잡음에 의한 음성의 왜곡은 다음의 과정을 통해서 제거한다. 우선, 스펙트럼 차감법을 사용하여 음성에 포함된 잡잡음을 제거하고, 음성의 동적인 특성을 강조하기 위해 대역 통과 필터링을 한다. 두 번째로 에너지 정규화 과정을 통해서 롬바드 효과에 의한 음성의 발성 강도의 변이를 제거한다. 마지막으로 제안한 롬바드 효과의 크기 척도는 롬바드 음성의 켑스트럼에 존재하는 왜곡을 제거하는 변환에 이용한다. 제안한 방법을 음성인식에 적용한 결과, SNR(signal-to-noise ratio) 0, 10, 20 dB에서 46.3%, 75.5%, 87.4%의 인식률을 82.6%, 95.7%, 97.6%로 향상시켰다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제24권2E호
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• pp.71-76
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• 2005

Compared to normal speech, distant-talking speech is characterized by the acoustic effect due to interfering sound and echoes as well as articulatory changes resulting from the speaker's effort to be more intelligible. In this paper, the acoustic features for distant-talking speech due to the articulatory changes will be analyzed and compared with those of the Lombard effect. In order to examine the effect of different distances and articulatory changes, speech recognition experiments were conducted for normal speech as well as distant-talking speech at different distances using HTK. The speech data used in this study consist of 4500 distant-talking utterances and 4500 normal utterances of 90 speakers (56 males and 34 females). Acoustic features selected for the analysis were duration, formants (F1 and F2), fundamental frequency, total energy and energy distribution. The results show that the acoustic-phonetic features for distant-talking speech correspond mostly to those of Lombard speech, in that the main resulting acoustic changes between normal and distant-talking speech are the increase in vowel duration, the shift in first and second formant, the increase in fundamental frequency, the increase in total energy and the shift in energy from low frequency band to middle or high bands.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.83-92
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• 1996

본 연구에서는 음성인식기의 성능이 잡음환경하에서 급격히 저하되는 것을 완화하기 위해, 성능저하의 원인인 롬바드효과의 보정과 잡음의 제거방법을 제안하였다. 롬바드 효과는 조용한 환경에서 발성된 음성에 비해, 스펙트럼 포락과 발성음의 세기를 변이 시키는 것으로 모델링하였고, 변이의 제거를 위해 스펙트럼 크기의 정규화와 켑스트럼 변환을 사용하였다. 주변 잡음의 첨가에 의한 음성신호의 왜곡은 스펙트럼 차감법을 사용하여 완화하였고, 음성의 동적인 특성을 강조하기 위해 대역통과 필터링을 하였다. 잡음환경에서 발성된 롬바드 음성의 분석 및 잡음처리 기술의 개발과 평가를 위해, 음성인식 기술의 적용이 예상되는 자동차, 전시장, 시내 공중전화 부스, 거리, 전산실 잡음을 이용하여 롬바드 음성을 수집하여 실험하였다. 제안한 방법을 여러 가지 잡음환경하에서 음성인식에 적용한 결과, 효과적인 잡음처리 방법임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.59-68
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• 1994

한국어 음성인식기의 성능평가를 위한 기초 연구로서 인식기의 성능에 영향을 끼치는 여러 요인 중 잡음환경 하에서의 롬바드 영향을 입은 음성을 인식하는 경우 인식기의 성능평가와 분석에 관해 논하였다. 성능평가에 있어서는 표준 음성데이타를 잡음환경에서 발성한 것에 가깝게 조작해서 롬바드 영향을 고려한 경우와 그렇지 않은 경우에 대해 평가항목 (잡음의 종류, 신호대 잡음비) 에 따라 인식실험을 행한 결과, 잡음의 종류는 인식성능에 영향을 미치지 않음을 알 수 있었고, 인식률 90%를 한계치로 했을 경우 롬바드 영향을 고려하지 않았을 때는 신호대 잡음비가 10dB 정도에서, 롬바드 영향을 고려한 경우에는 30dB정도에서 동일한 인식률을 나타내어 롬바드 영향을 고려한 경우가 20dB 정도의 인식률 저하를 가져와 실제 평가시 롬바드 영향을 고려해야 함을 알 수 있었다. 분산분석의 결과로부터는 여러 종류의 인식기를 다양한 평가항목에 대해 평가할 때, 각 평가 항목이 인식성능에 미치는 영향을 정량화할 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 음성과학
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.27-38
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• 2002

The purpose of this article is to present the acoustic parameters (VOT, jitter, shimmer, vF0, vAm, NHR, SPI, VTI, DVB, DSH) for consonants (/pipi/, /$p^{h}ip^{h}i$/, /p'ip'i/) and sustained vowels (/a/, /e/, /i/) produced by normal subjects and dysphonia patients at two vocal effort(normal, high) by Lombard effect using 60dB white noise. Lombard effect indicates the vocal effort increase in noisy situation. At normal vocal effort, in general the acoustic parameter values of patients are greater than normal. And in noisy situation, significant decrease of acoustic values is seen in normal compared with in dysphonia patients. The clinical implication of this finding, the vocal quality in dysphonia is not compensated by vocal effort as well as normal subjects because of the inefficiency caused by abnormal vocal fold appearance and function. And with this result, we can counsel that the voice quality can not be improved as well as the patient expect.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.93-97
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• 2013

This paper is on designing an indoor driving simulator to evaluate the performance of in-car speech recognizer when influenced by the elements, which lower the success rate of speech recognition. The proposed simulator simulates vehicle noise which was pre-recorded in diverse driving environments and driver's speech. Additionally, the proposed Lombard effect conversion module in this simulator enables the speech recorded in a studio environment to convert into various possible driving scenarios. The relevant experimental results have confirmed that the proposed simulator is a feasible approach for realizing an effective method as it achieved similar speech recognition results to the real driving environment.

• 음성과학
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• 제6권
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• pp.197-217
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• 1999

In a noisy class, the acoustic-phonetic features of the teacher and the perceptual features of learners are changed comparison with a quiet environment. Acoustical analyses were carried out on a set of French monosyllables consisting of 17 consonants and three vowel /a, e, i/, produced by 1 male speaker talking in quiet and in 50, 60 and 70 dB SPL of masking noise on headphone. The results of the acoustic analyses showed consistent differences in energy and formant center frequency amplitude of consonants and vowels, $F_1$ frequency of vowel and duration of voiceless stops suggesting the increase of vocal effort. The perceptual experiments in which 18 undergraduate female students learning French served as the subjects, were conducted in quiet and in 50, 60 dB of masking noise. The identification scores on consonants were higher in Lombard speech than in normal speech, suggesting that the speaker's vocal effort is useful to overcome the masking effect of noise. And, with increased noise level, the perceptual response to the French consonants given had a tendency to be complex and the subjective reaction score on the noise using the vocabulary representative of 'unpleasant' sensation to be higher. And, in the point of view on the L2(second language) acquisition, the influence of L1 (first language) on L2 examined in the perceptual result supports the interference theory.