• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.45-51
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• 2023

나이가 들면서 발생하는 음성 문제는 사회적, 정서적으로 영향을 미칠 수 있으며, 나아가 고립감과 우울증으로 이어질 수 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 노화로 인한 음향학적 특성 변화를 음질과 구어 유창성의 변화를 알아보고자 한다. 이를 위해 노년층 남성 20명과 청년층 남성 20명이 산출한 연장발성과 구절 읽기 과제를 녹음하여 분석하였다. 음질 분석 변수로 기본주파수(F0), 주기 변동률(jitter), 진폭 변동률(shimmer), 켑스트럼 정점(cepstral peak prominence, CPP) 값을 분석하였으며 구어 유창성 분석 변수로는 평균 음절 길이(average syllable duration, ASD), 조음 속도(articulation rate, AR), 구어 속도(SR)를 분석하였다. 연구결과, 음질 측정에서 노년층의 경우 F0가 높게 나타났으며 jitter, shimmer, CPP의 결과값을 통해 음질이 저하된 것으로 나타났다. 구어 유창성 분석 결과, 노년층은 ASD, AR, SR의 결과값을 통해 느리게 발화하는 것으로 나타났다. 음질과 구어유창성 간 상관관계 분석 결과, shimmer와 CPP 값과 각각 ASD와 SR에서 높은 상관관계가 나타났다. 본 연구결과를 통해 노화에 따른 음성과 구어 유창성 변화를 조기에 발견하고 이에 대한 적절한 훈련법을 제공할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 정보처리학회논문지C
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• 제19C권2호
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• pp.119-126
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• 2012

본 논문은 현재 상용화되어 국내에서 서비스가 제공되고 있는 이동통신 시스템인 와이브로와 HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) 시스템을 통해서 패킷 기반 음성 서비스가 제공되는 경우의 서비스 품질에 관한 것이다. 미래의 체계적인 서비스 품질 관리 방안 수립 과정에서 이미 개발된 품질 측정 소프트웨어[2]를 이용하여 다양한 시나리오 하에서 실제 음성 서비스의 품질을 측정하였다. 측정 결과의 분석을 통해서 현 시점에서 와이브로와 HSDPA 시스템 기반으로 음성 서비스가 제공될 경우 서비스 품질이 상당히 양호할 것임을 확인할 수 있었다. 추가적으로 무선 전송 환경의 변화가 음성 서비스의 품질에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위한 또 다른 실험을 통해서 MOS(Mean Opinion Score)값의 급격한 저하 현상이 나타나는 무선 품질 지표의 값을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제57호
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• pp.73-84
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to explore the acoustic characteristics of sexy voice. In this study, we measured acoustic parameters (fundamental frequency, jitter, shimmer, and nasalance) of a sustained vowel sound produced by 40 actors (20 males and 20 females) and 40 non-actors (20 males and 20 females). Digital audio recordings were made in the sustained vowel |a| for acoustic analyses using Praat (version 4.1.9) and Nasal View (version 4.5). Twenty voice pathologists participated in the listening experiment and judged the degree of sexiness on a 7-point scale. The results showed that fundamental frequency, shimmer and nasalance had significant differences between actors and non-actors. The acoustic parameters of sexy voice matched perceptual aspects of a previous study: Low fundamental frequency-low pitch and high shimmer-husky voice. On the other hand, the nasalance score did not match that of the previous study: Decreased nasalance had a higher score on sexiness scale judged by the listeners. It would be desirable to study the voice quality by analyzing and controlling more acoustic and auditory parameters for practical applications in the future.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.32-37
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• 1998

Tonsillectomy is the one of operation that is performed the most commonly in otolaryngology field. Many changes that include range of voice, tone, voice quality and resonance were made by tonsillectomy. Sometimes, any patients taken tonsillectomy has suffer from these voice problem after tonsillectomy. However there are less study for these problems until now. Then, we studied to find the anatomical findings that affected the voice quality when tonsillectomy was performed. We evaluated the voice in 2 groups, one is the group showed the normal pharyngeal space by using the transnasal fiberscopy, the other is group showed medially bulging tonsil at pharyngeal cavity by using same method, with perceptual evaluation, nasalance score, nasality, oral formant and nasal formant. We used the computerized speech analysis system, the nasometer and the spectrogram in the CSL program. We could not find any differences in perceptual evaluation between two groups. But objective measures were provided. Nasalance score and nasality on the nasometric analysis were increased significantly and oral formant on the spectrogram was changed singnificantly after tonsillectomy in Group 2. Authors thought medially bulging tonsil in the pharynx is able to affect the voice quality after tonsillectomy when we evaluted through the nasal cavity by the using of fiberscopy and this evaluation would be important especially in singers.

• 동의신경정신과학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.155-162
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• 2013

Objectives : The purpose of this study is to evaluate the voice handicaps of the idiopathic Parkinson's Diseases (PD) and their voice-related quality of life. Methods : Voice handicap index-10 (VHI-10) and Voice related Quality of Life were completed by 17 idiopathic PD patients, and Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) part I, II, III were assessed. The relations between VHI-10, VRQOL and UPDRS scores were analysed. Results : VHI-10 score of PD patients was $14.35{\pm}8.07$ and VRQOL total score of PD patients was $59.12{\pm}20.25$, social-emotional $59.93{\pm}20.50$, physical function $58.58{\pm}21.77$. There were significant relations between VHI-10, VRQOL score and UPDRS II (activities of daily living). Conclusions : These results suggest that voice impairments affect the daily living of PD patients and their quality of lives.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.103-108
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the Bel canto singing technique on voice quality in patients with vocal bowing and sulcus vocalis. Five patients with vocal bowing, and five patients with sulcus vocalis participated in the study. Each subject was assessed acoustically (Jitter, Shimmer, NNE) in the first and last session. Dr. Speech (version 4.0, Tiger-DRS) was used to compare acoustic parameters of pre- and post-treatment. The Bel canto singing technique consisted of breathing exercises, relaxation exercises, and phonation exercises. The results showed that the Bel canto singing technique tended to be effective on improving voice quality in patients with organic voice disorders.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.129-136
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• 2017

This study investigates the effect of voice quality on speech intelligibility and the relationship between voice quality and intelligibility for children with spastic CP. We recruited 36 children with spastic CP (mean age 10.43 year, 17 girls, 19 boys, spastic type 34, mixed 2) from a special school and a rehabilitation hospital. Voice samples for the perceptual analysis of voice quality were extracted from a sustained vowel /a/ and were rated on the GRBAS scales by two experienced speech language pathologists. Ten adult subjects with no hearing problems evaluated speech intelligibility for the 37 words listed in the Assessment of Phonology and Articulation for Children on a 7-point interval scale. The children with spastic CP were divided into three groups according to the rated G scores on the GRBAS scales (G1(n)=10, G2(n)=13, G3(n)=13). Analyses of ANCOVA and Pearson correlation showed that there was a significant difference in speech intelligibility among three groups. There was also a significant correlation in G scale (grade), A scale (asthenia), B scale (breathy) score, and speech intelligibility. These findings suggest that poor speech intelligibility of spastic CP might be related to asthenia and breathiness. Vocal intensity should be increased and vocal functioning should be improved for speech therapy to improve speech intelligibility of the children with spastic CP.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.512-517
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• 2018

음성 품질의 향상은 통신 분야의 주요 관심사이다. 본 논문에서는 VoIP(Voice-over-IP) 수신부에서의 배경잡음 및 패킷손실에 강인한 음질향상 방식을 제안한다. 제안된 방식에서는 하이브리드 마르코프 체인 기반 네트워크 지터추정, 추정된 지터를 이용한 적응적 플레이아웃 스케줄링, 그리고 진폭 및 위상 복원 기반의 음성 향상 방식 등을 결합하여 IP 네트워크를 통해 VoIP 수신부에 도착하는 음성신호의 품질을 향상시킨다. 실험결과는 제안된 방식이 송신부의 인코딩 전에 음성신호에 추가된 잡음을 제거하고 불안정한 네트워크 환경에서 양질의 음성을 제공하는 것을 확인할 수 있다.

• 한국소프트웨어감정평가학회 논문지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.73-83
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• 2019

음성인식은 최근 인공지능 기술과 접목되면서 오인식률이 크게 개선되었고 사용자 관점에서 효과적이고 효율적인 HMI(Human Machine Interface)를 제공하고 있다. 이러한 추세는 방위산업 분야에서도 반영되고 있고 특히 항공분야에서 F-35에 적용이 되었다. 하지만 이러한 기술에 대해서 품질평가를 위해 방위산업 특히 항공분야에는 객관적이고 평가 가능한 정량적인 모델이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 음성인식의 소프트웨어 측면에서 항공기에 적용하기 위한 정량적인 평가 모델을 제시한다. 평가 모델 제시를 위해 음성인식 적용 기술과 ISO/IEC 25000(SQuaRE) 제품 품질 속성을 이용해 평가 항목을 추출한다. 이러한 두 가지 항목의 연계를 통해 정량적인 평가 모델을 제시하고 사례 연구를 활용해 평가 결과를 확인한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.962-977
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• 2019

The human voice is a convenient method of information transfer between different objects such as between men, men and machine, between machines. The development of information and communication technology, the voice has been able to transfer farther than before. The way to communicate, it is to convert the voice to another form, transmit it, and then reconvert it back to sound. In such a communication process, a vocoder is a method of converting and re-converting a voice and sound. The CELP (Code-Excited Linear Prediction) type vocoder, one of the voice codecs, is adapted as a standard codec since it provides high quality sound even though its transmission speed is relatively low. The EVRC (Enhanced Variable Rate CODEC) and QCELP (Qualcomm Code-Excited Linear Prediction), variable bit rate vocoders, are used for mobile phones in 3G environment. For the real-time implementation of a vocoder, the reduction of sound quality is a typical problem. To improve the sound quality, that is important to know the size and shape of noise. In the existing sound quality improvement method, the voice activated is detected or used, or statistical methods are used by the large mount of data. However, there is a disadvantage in that no noise can be detected, when there is a continuous signal or when a change in noise is large.This paper focused on finding a better way to decrease the reduction of sound quality in lower bit transmission environments. Based on simulation results, this study proposed a preprocessor application that estimates the SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) using the spectral SNR estimation method. The SNR estimation method adopted the IMBE (Improved Multi-Band Excitation) instead of using the SNR, which is a continuous speech signal. Finally, this application improves the quality of the vocoder by enhancing sound quality adaptively.