• 말소리와 음성과학
• /
• 제2권3호
• /
• pp.171-178
• /
• 2010

This study examined the relationship between speech intelligibility and comprehensibility for hearing impaired children with cochlear implants. Speech intelligibility was measured by orthographic transcription method for acoustic signal at the level of words and sentences. Comprehensibility was evaluated by examining listener's ability to answer questions about the contents of a narrative. Speech samples were collected from 12 speakers(age of 6~15 years) with cochlear implants. For each speaker, 4 different listeners(total of 48 listeners) completed 2 tasks: One task involved making orthographic transcriptions and the other task involved answering comprehension questions. The results of the study were as follows: (1) Speech intelligibility and comprehensibility scores tended to be increased by decreasing of severity. (2) Across all speakers, the relationship was significant between speech intelligibility and comprehensibility scores without considering severity. However, within severity groups, there was the significant relationship between comprehensibility and speech intelligibility only for moderate-severe group. These results suggest that speech intelligibility scores measured by orthographic transcription may not accurately reflect how well listener comprehend speech of children with cochlear implants and therefore, measures of both speech intelligibility and listener comprehension should be considered in evaluating speech ability and information-bearing capability in speakers with cochlear implants.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
• /
• 제20권4E호
• /
• pp.3-16
• /
• 2001

An ASCII encoding of Korean has been developed for extended phonetic transcription of the Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA). SAMPA is a machine-readable phonetic alphabet used for multilingual computing. It has been developed since 1987 and extended to more than twenty languages. The motivating factor for creating Korean SAMPA (K-SAMPA) is to label Korean speech for a multilingual corpus or to transcribe native language (Ll) interfered pronunciation of a second language learner for bilingual education. Korean SAMPA represents each Korean allophone with a particular SAMPA symbol. Sounds that closely resemble it are represented by the same symbol, regardless of the language they are uttered in. Each of its symbols represents a speech sound that is spectrally and temporally so distinct as to be perceptually different when the components are heard in isolation. Each type of sound has a separate IPA-like designation. Korean SAMPA is superior to other transcription systems with similar objectives. It describes better the cross-linguistic sound quality of Korean than the official Romanization system, proclaimed by the Korean government in July 2000, because it uses an internationally shared phonetic alphabet. It is also phonetically more accurate than the official Romanization in that it dispenses with orthographic adjustments. It is also more convenient for computing than the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) because it consists of the symbols on a standard keyboard. This paper demonstrates how the Korean SAMPA can express allophonic details and prosodic features by adopting the transcription conventions of the extended SAMPA (X-SAMPA) and the prosodic SAMPA(SAMPROSA).

• 음성과학
• /
• 제4권1호
• /
• pp.113-133
• /
• 1998

The system proposed in this paper prosodically transcribes the intonation patterns, prosodic structures, phrasings, and other prosodic aspects of Korean utterances, on four parallel tiers: a tone tier, an orthographic tier, a break index tier, and a miscellaneous tier. The tone tier employs two phrase accents (L* and H *), three accentual phrase boundary tones (L-, H-, LH-), and four intonational phrase boundary tones (L%,H%,LH%,LHL%) in order to provide a phonological transcription of pitch events associated with accented syllables and phrase boundaries. The break index tier uses five break indices, numbered from 0 to 4, which mark a prosodic grouping of words and its prosodic structure in an utterance. Among the five indices, the break index 3 and the break index 4 align with an accentual phrase boundary tone and an intonational phrase boundary tone, respectively, in the tone tier.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
• /
• 제11B권1호
• /
• pp.99-106
• /
• 2004

음절 복원은 음성 인식 장치에서 인식된 음가열을 발성 이전의 표기 형태로 복원하는 과정이다. 본 논문에서는 음절 복원 과정을 위하여 표준 발음법을 기반으로 음절 복원 규칙을 작성하였다. 음절 복원 규칙을 이용하여 표기 후보 집합의 생성 방법을 연구하였다. 또한 생성된 표기후보의 수를 감소시키기 위하여, 비 표기 음절을 포함한 표기 후보 감소, 비 어휘 음절을 포함한 표기 후보 감소, 비어간 음절을 포함한 표기 후보 감소의 3단계 감소 과정을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법을 통하여 실험한 결과 평균 74%의 표기 후보 감소율을 나타내었다.

• 한국음향학회지
• /
• 제16권5호
• /
• pp.50-59
• /
• 1997

본 논문에서는 한국어 음성 데이터베이스 구축을 위하여 자동으로 음소경계를 추출하는 자동 음성분할 및 레이블링 시스템을 구현하였다. 기존의 음성분할 및 레이블링 기술을 근간으로 본 시스템을 구현하였으며, 또한 사용자가 자동분할된 음소경계를 확인하여 그 경계를 쉽게 수정할 수 있도록 한글 모티프 환경에서 그래픽 사용자 인터페이스를 개발하였다. 개발된 시스템은 16kHz로 샘플링된 음성을 대상으로 하고 있으며, 레이블링 단위는 45개의 유사음소와 하나의 묵음으로 구성하였다. 그리고 언어학적 정보의 입력방식으로는 음소표기와 철자표기를 사용하였으며, 패턴매칭 방법으로는 hidden Markov model(HMM)을 이용하였다. 개발된 시스템의 각 음소 모델은 수작업에 의해서 음소단위로 분할한 음성학적으로 균형잡힌 445 단어 데이터베이스를 이용해서 훈련되었다. 그리고 본 시스템의 성능평가를 위해 훈련에 사용되지 않는 문장 데이터베이스에 대해서 자동 음성분할 실험을 수행하였다. 실험결과, 수작업에 의해서 분할된 음소경계위치와의 오차가 20ms 이내인 것이 74.7%였으며, 40ms이내에는 92.8%가 포함되었다.