• Speech Sciences
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.105-113
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• 2001

The abbreviation (specially, an acronym) are used more nowadays. However we are using them carelessly unknowing that there are some reducing patterns. In this paper, we will first analyse the right oralization and the phonemicization of abbreviation on the basis of the group types. Then, we will propose necessary and sufficient conditions to recognize how to read or pronounce the acronyms and in which way, when they are converted from the text to the speech. We have limited the use of acronym to the graphem-phoneme relations, and the diversity of the usage to minimized, and therefore we could define clearly the characteristics of the phonetic chains. In conclusion, we could find that there are more phonemicization in producing acronyms with these phonetic chains characteristics, and these phonetic based acronyms are increasingly used in the field of aviation and medicine.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.169-186
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• 2000

This paper aims to confirm the mispronunciation of native Korean students due to the phonetic and phonological system differences between English and Korean, and to find the works-to-do by experiment. Many Korean students tend to differentiate the sounds of word-final stop consonants not by vowel duration or the allophones but by the phoneme of the consonant itself. In English, Stop sounds change through the conditions of the aspirated, unaspirated, or unreleased sounds. But in Korean they are not allophones of phonemes but distinct phonemes. Therefore, many Korean students are apt to add an extra vowel sound /i/ after the final stop consonant in the eve form due to both the unperception of the differences between the phonemes and the allophones of stop consonants, and the influence of the Korean sound-sequence relationship. Since the replacement of the allophones and extra vowel addition does not change the meaning, the importance was almost lost. Nevertheless, this kind of study is essential for the precise learning and the use of the English language.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.27-40
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• 2000

The goal of quantitative linguistics is to show the quantitative behavior of linguistic units. There are several studies which examine the frequency of Korean phonemes, which are important in comprehending the internal function of the linguistic units. However, the frequency information, from the pure phonological level without any consideration of rhythmic group, cannot adequately represent linguistic phenomena. Therefore, to provide the effective information, the phonological transcription must be carried out on the level of rhythmic group. In this paper, we made the transcription to analyze Korean phonology. We were not satisfied with merely investigating the frequencies of the phonemes, but also examined whether the distribution of Korean phonemes show the binomial distribution within linguistic constraints.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.85-94
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• 2003

In this paper an algorithm to reduce the size of Text-to-Speech database is proposed. The algorithm is based on the characteristics of Korean phonemic units. From the initial database, a reduced phoneme unit set is induced by articulatory similarity of concatenating phonemes. Speech data is read by one female announcer for 1000 phonetically balanced sentences. All the recorded speech is then segmented by phoneticians. Total size of the original speech data is about 640 MB including laryngograph signal. To synthesize wave, RE-PSOLA (Residual-Excited Pitch Synchronous Overlap and Add Method) was used. The voice quality of synthesized speech was compared with original speech in terms of spectrographic informations and objective tests. The quality of the synthesized speech is not much degraded when the size of synthesis DB was reduced from 320 MB to 82 MB.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.169-183
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to find an effect of Metaphon Intervention on the improvement of speech intelligibility of preschool children with articulation-phonological disorders. Subjects were 4 preschool children with articulation-phonological disorders. A multiple baseline design across subjects was used to examine the effect of the program. The program consisted of 2 steps. The first step was composed of concept level, sound level, phoneme level, and word level. The second step was on sentence level. Results were as follows: First, metaphon ability of all subjects was improved after the Metaphon Intervention. Second, speech intelligibility of all subjects was improved after Metaphon Intervention. From the results above, Metaphon Intervention can be effective to improve not only phonological awareness and metaphon but also overall speech intelligibility of preschool children with articulation-phonological disorders.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.239-244
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to investigate two phonological error patterns on coronal feature of children with functional articulation disorders and to compare them with those of general children. We tested 120 children with functional articulation disorders and 100 general children from 2~4 years of age with 'Assessment of Phonology & Articulation for Chidren(APAC)'. The results were as follows: (1) 37 disordered children substituted [+coronal] consonants for [-coronal] consonants (fronting of velars) and 9 disordered children substituted [-coronal] consonants for [+coronal] consonants (backing to velars). (2) Theses two phonological patterns were affected by the articulatory place of following phoneme. (3) The fronting pattern of children with articulation disorders was similar with that of general children, but their backing pattern was different with that of general children. These results show the clinical usefulness of coronal feature in phonological pattern analysis, the need of articulatory assessment with various phonetic context, and the importance of error contexts in clinical judgment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.856-858
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• 2005

음성인식 시스템에서 입력된 음성 데이터에 대해 비인식 대상을 거부하는 기능은 신뢰도 보장 측면에 있어서 상당히 중요하며, 신뢰도를 높이기 위해서는 단순한 인식기능 외에 부적절한 입력 패턴의 거부 기능이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 신뢰성 문제를 해결하기 위하여 음소기반 인식 네트워크에서 필러 모델 방법과 단어 검출률 방법을 사용하여 실험하였고, 문장의 단어 수에 따른 두 방법의 문장 거부 성능을 FAR과 FRR의 평균을 최소화 하는 값을 각각 구함으로써 비교${\cdot}$분석 하였다. 그 결과 필러모델 방법이 좀 더 나은 거부 성능을 보였고, 단어 검출률을 이용하는 방법이 인식 네트워크를 전부 거치지 않아도 되므로 실행속도와 메모리 절약에서 효과적이었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.442-444
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 아라비안 숫자의 중의성을 효과적으로 제거하고 숫자 표현의 발음을 정확하게 문자화할 수 있는 임베디드 시스템용 경량화된 아라비안 숫자 읽기 시스템을 제안한다. 이를 위해 7 가지의 숫자 읽기 방식(Headings of Arabic Numerals RAN)을 분류하였고, 문자화 규칙을 설정하기 위해. (1) 문맥 자질, (2) 패턴 자질, (3) 휴리스틱 정보를 숫자 표현의 의미에 따라 분석하였다. 그리고 숫자의 문자화 시스템을 최적화하여 임베디드 시스템에 탑재하기 위해 (1) 형태소 분석 모듈의 분리, (2) 사전 압축, (3) 인명과 지명의 제거를 하였고, 이를 홍해 심각한 정확도 손실 없이 메모리 사용량과 처리 시간을 크게 줄일 수 있었다. 경량화된 mini-TAN 은 $96.9\~98.3\%$의 정확도를 보이며, 기존 상용 TTS 시스템에 비해서도 숫자 읽기의 처리에 있어 높은 정확도를 보인다.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.193-198
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• 2005

The aim of this paper is to exam why the nouns that used /kh, ph, ts, th/, as the final phoneme changed. Assuming that these change related to the aspects of the word usage, we collected the word frequency and the phonetic form of words. The results are as follows : ① The realization of standard phonetic form is related to the frequency of case marker that could not be omitted, combined with the word. ② The changing into /s/ in a coronal consonant is related to the case marker [i].

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.79-82
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• 2003

In this paper, we proposed Backgorund Model Set algorithm for the speaker verification to improve the shortcoming of calculating process in conventional confidence measure(CM). CM is to display relative likelihood between recognized models and unrecognized models. Unrecognized models is known as antiphone models. Calculate probability and standard deviation using all phonemes at process that compose antiphone model. At this process, antiphone CM brought bad result. Also, recognition time increases. In order problem, we studied about method to reconstitute average and standard deviation taking BMS algorithm using antiphoneme that near phoneme of CM calculation.