• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제54호
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• pp.15-26
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• 2005

The aim of this paper was to analyze the lexical effects on spoken word recognition of Korean monosyllabic word. The lexical factors chosen in this paper was frequency, density and lexical familiarity of words. Result of the analysis was as follows; frequency was the significant factor to predict spoken word recognition score of monosyllabic word. The other factors were not significant. This result suggest that word frequency should be considered in speech perception test.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.85-94
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to see the effects of pitch and length patterns on spoken word recognition. In Experiment 1, a syllable monitoring task was used to see the effects of pitch and length on the pre-lexical level of spoken word recognition. For both Seoul dialect speakers and Daegu dialect speakers, pitch and length did not affect the syllable detection processes. This result implies that there is little effect of pitch and length in pre-lexical processing. In Experiment 2, a lexical decision task was used to see the effect of pitch and length on the lexical access level of spoken word recognition. In this experiment, word frequency (low and high) as well as pitch and length was manipulated. The results showed that pitch and length information did not play an important role for Seoul dialect speakers, but that it did affect lexical decision processing for Daegu dialect speakers. Pitch and length seem to affect lexical access during the word recognition process of Daegu dialect speakers.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2005년도 춘계 학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.77-80
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• 2005

The aim of this paper was to analyze the lexical effects on spoken word recognition of Korean monosyllabic word. The lexical factors chosen in this paper was frequency, density and lexical familiarity of words. Result of the analysis was as follows; frequency was the significant factor to predict spoken word recognition score of monosyllabic word. The other factors were not significant. This result suggest that word frequency should be considered in speech perception test.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2017

It was shown in speech production studies that the preparation unit of spoken word production is language particular, such as onset phonemes for English and Dutch, syllables for Mandarin Chinese, and morae for Japanese. However, there have been inconsistent results on whether the onset phoneme is a planning unit of spoken word production in Korean. In this study, two sets of experiments investigated possible influences of task demands on the phonological preparation in native Korean adults, namely, implicit priming and word naming with the form preparation paradigm. Only the word naming task, but not the implicit priming task, showed a significant onset priming effect, even though there were significant syllable priming effects in both tasks. Following the attentional theory ($O^{\prime}S{\acute{e}}aghdha$ & Frazer, 2014), these results suggest that task demands might play a role in the absence/presence of onset priming effects in Korean. Native Korean speakers could maintain their attention to the shared onset phonemes in word naming, which is not very demanding, while they have difficulties in allocating their attention to such units in a more cognitive-demanding implicit priming, even though both tasks involve accessing phonological codes. These findings demonstrate that there are cross-linguistic differences in the first selectable unit in preparation of spoken word production, but within a single language, the preparation unit might not be immutable.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제15B권6호
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• pp.595-602
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• 2008

각 문장 별 중점단어는 발화음성을 인식하고 그 의미를 이해하는데 도움을 준다. 발화된 음성신호로부터 중점단어를 탐색할 수 있는 방법을 찾기 위한 노력의 일환으로 실험을 통하여 문장 내에서 중점단어와 그 외의 단어들의 기본주파수의 평균과 분산, 그리고 평균 에너지를 분석해 보았다. 한국어로 된 100개의 발화문장의 음성데이터를 가지고 실험을 한 결과 중점단어는 그 외의 단어들에 비해 대부분 상대적으로 높은 기본주파수의 평균값을 나타내거나 상대적으로 높은 기본주파수의 분산 값을 나타냈다. 이 연구 결과를 이용하면 한국어의 구어문장에서 운율적 특성을 알 수 있을 뿐만 아니라, 자연어 처리를 이용한 핵심어를 추출하는 데에도 도움이 될 것이다.

• 한국문헌정보학회지
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.93-103
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• 2005

영어 사전 검색 서비스 이용자들은 원하는 영어 단어의 철자를 정확하게 기억하지 못하고, 발음만을 기억하는 경우가 있다. 이러한 이용자들에게 도움을 주기 위해 본 연구에서는 입말 표기, 즉 영어 단어 발음의 한글 표기를 이용하여 영어 단어를 효과적으로 검색할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 이를 위하여 코닉스(KONIX) 코드를 개발하며, 입말 표기와 영어 단어를 코닉스 코드들로 변환한다. 그리고 변환된 코닉스 코드들 사이의 음성적 유사도를 편집 거리 방법과 2-그램 방법을 이용하여 계산한다. 또한 제안한 방법이 입말 표기에 의한 영어 단어 검색에 매우 효과적임을 실험을 통하여 입증한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.810-818
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• 2010

This paper presents a new framework for integrating untranscribed spoken content into the acoustic training of an automatic speech recognition system. Untranscribed spoken content plays a very important role for under-resourced languages because the production of manually transcribed speech databases still represents a very expensive and time-consuming task. We proposed two new methods as part of the training framework. The first method focuses on combining initial acoustic models using a data-driven metric. The second method proposes an improved acoustic training procedure based on unsupervised transcriptions, in which word endings were modified by broad phonetic classes. The training framework was applied to baseline acoustic models using untranscribed spoken content from parliamentary debates. We include three types of acoustic models in the evaluation: baseline, reference content, and framework content models. The best overall result of 18.02% word error rate was achieved with the third type. This result demonstrates statistically significant improvement over the baseline and reference acoustic models.

• 음성과학
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• 제2권
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• pp.95-108
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• 1997

The purpose of this experimental study was to investigate prosodic characteristics of English as spoken by Koreans. Test materials were four English words, a sentence, and a paragraph. Six female Korean speakers and five native English speakers participated in acoustic and perceptual experiments. Pitch and duration of word syllables were measured from signals and spectrograms made by the Signalize 3.04 software program for Power Mac 7200. In the perceptual experiment, accent position, intonation patterns, rhythm patterns and phrasing were evaluated by the five native English speakers. Preliminary results from this limited study show that prosodic characteristics of Koreans include (1) pitch on the first part of a word and sentence is lower than that of English speakers, but the pitch on the last part is the opposite; (2) word prosody is quite similar to that of an English speaker, but sentence prosody is quite different; (3) the weakest point of sentence prosody spoken by Koreans is in the rhythmic pattern.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제28권7호
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• pp.674-679
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• 2009

본 논문은 골프 동영상에 포함된 오디오 정보로부터 검출된 이벤트 사운드 구간과 골프 선수이름이 포함된 음성구간을 결합하여 선수별 이벤트 구간을 검색하는 방식을 제안한다. 전체적인 시스템은 동영상으로부터 분할된 오디오 스트림으로부터 잡음제거, 오디오 구간분할, 음성 인식 등의 과정을 통한 자동색인 모듈과 사용자가 텍스트로 입력한 선수 이름을 발음열로 변환하고, 색인된 데이터베이스에서 질의된 선수 이름과 상응하는 음성구간과 연결되는 이벤트 구간을 찾아주는 검색 모듈로 구성된다. 선수이름 검색을 위해서 본 논문에서는 음소 기반, 단어 기반, 단어와 음소를 결합한 하이브리드 방식을 적용한 선수별 이벤트 구간 검색결과를 비교하였다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.3-20
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a segmentation unit for a Korean noun is a 'syllable' and whether the process of segmenting spoken words occurs at the lexical level. A syllable monitoring task was administered which required participants to detect an auditorily presented target from visually presented words. In Experiment 1, syllable neighborhood density of high frequency words which can be segmented into both CV-CVC and CVC-VC were controlled. The syllable effect and the neighborhood density effect were significant, and the syllable effect emerged differently depending on the syllable neighborhood density. Similar results were obtained in Experiment 2 where low frequency words were used. The significance of word frequency effect on syllable effect was also examined. The results of Experiments 1 and 2 indicated that the segmentation unit for a Korean noun is indeed a 'syllable', and this process can occur at the lexical level.