• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.29-37
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• 2010

Previous studies have investigated a between-category relationship of multiple acoustic cues for a laryngeal contrast by examining the distributions of VOT, f0 and H1-H2. The current study examined within-category correlations between cues comprising stops by Korean- and English-speaking adults and children to understand how children master the internal structure of stop phonation types in two languages. Word-initial stops were collected from about 70 children and 15 adults speaking English and Korean, and were analyzed in terms of VOT, f0 and H1-H2 to compute correlation coefficients. Findings in adults' productions included a gender-differentiated cue-correlation pattern associated with H1-H2 in Korean tense stops and a trading relationship between f0 and VOT in Korean lax and aspirated stops and English voiced and voiceless stops. Children did not necessarily have adult-like cue-correlation patterns even in early-acquired categories, suggesting that the mastery of intra-category structure of phonation type might occur later than inter-category structure.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.3-6
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• 2000

CELP 계열 보코더중 인터넷 폰 및 화상회의를 목적으로 개발된 G.723.1 보코더에서는 LPC를 LSP로 변환하기 위해 LPC 계수를 이용한 다항식을 구성한 다음 근을 검색하는 방법을 사용하고 있다. 근 검색시에는 256/pi의 범위 안에서 동일한 간격을 갖는 코사인 테이블을 구성하여 순차적으로 검색하게 된다. LSF의 근들은 포만트가 존재하는 대역에서 근들이 나타나게 되므로 유성음의 경우 저주파수 대역에서 무성음의 경우 고주파수 대역에서 많이 분포하게 된다. 하지만 G.723.1에서 사용하는 코사인 테이블은 음성신호의 특성을 고려하지 않고 균등한 간격을 갖는 값들을 사용함으로 음질을 저해할 수 있는 요소를 갖고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 음성의 특성을 고려한 코사인 테이블을 재구성함으로써 음질을 향상시킬 수 있었으며 주관적 음질평가인 MOS 시험결과 평균 1.8 정도의 음질향상을 가져올 수 있었다

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.175-178
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• 2000

GMM을 기반으로 하는 화자식별 시스템은 입력음성의 길이의 장단에 의해서 인식률에 차이가 생긴다. 이는 가우시안 모델의 파라미터를 추정할 때, 않은 데이터를 사용할수록 추정이 정확해지기 때문이다. 따라서 화자식별에 사용하는 입력데이터는 화자가 발성한 모든 음성신호에서 잡음구간만을 제거한 유,무성음을 이용하게 된다. 그러나 이 경우 데이터의 양이 많아져서 실시간 처리에 어려움이 있겠다. 본 논문에서는 전체 음성구간을 이용하는 대신 유성음 구간만을 추출하여 이 구간의 켑스트럼과 피치 값들을 특징파라미터로 이용하여 화자식별에 이용하였다. 특히 피치성분은 일반적으로 통신채널과 핸드셋의 영향에 상대적으로 강한 장점이 있다. 실험을 위하여 20대의 남성 및 여성화자 40명으로부터 얻은 음성데이터에서 유성음구간을 추출하여 GMM을 이용한 문장독립 화자식별 실험을 하였으며, 실험결과 스펙트럼정보와 함께 피치 정보가 화자식별에 유용하게 사용될 수 있음을 알 수 있었다

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.253-256
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• 2010

Since the amplitude of voiced fall off at about -20dB/decade, dynamic range is often compressed prior to spectral analysis so that details at weak, high frequencies may be visible. Preemphasizing the speech, either by differentiating the analog speech $s_a$(t) prior to A/D conversion or by differencing the discrete-time s(n)=$s_a$(nT), compensating for falloff at high frequencies. The most common form of preemphasis is y(n)=s(n)-As(n-1), where A typically lies between 0.9 and 1.0 and reflects the degree of pre-emphasis. In this paper, we proposed that A is adjusted at each time by measuring the slope of envelope in frequency domain.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.172-175
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• 2003

This paper investigates phonation types of Malay plosives and compares Malay plosives with Korean ones in terms of VOT, F0, duration of closure, and durations of the preceding and following vowels. This study is significant in that it specifies phonetic characteristics of phonation types of the two languages and provides phonetic bases for teaching and learning either of the two languages. The results showed that Malay voiceless plosives are higher than voiced ones in VOT, F0, duration of closure but the other way in durations of the preceding and following vowels. The distribution of VOT suggests that Malay voiceless plosives are close to Korean fortis plosives.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.203-206
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• 2003

In this paper, we employ the adaptive comb filtering for effective noise reduction in mobile communication environment. Adaptive comb filtering is a well- known method for noise reduction, but requires the correct pitch period and must be applied just in voiced speech frames. To satisfy these requirements we use two kinds of information extracted from speech packets, one of which is the pitch period information measured precisely by a speech coder and the other is the frame rate information related to a decision on speech or silence frame. Experiments on speech recognition system confirm the efficiency of this method. Feature parameters employing this method give superior performance in noise environment to those extracted directly from output speech.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.37-44
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• 2021

Preliminary findings are reported from five experiments testing the perceived naturalness of word tokens whose vowel durations are altered. The stimuli were minimal pairs of English words ending in a voiced/voiceless plosive. Results show an asymmetric effect of shortening and lengthening of the vowel on the perceived naturalness of the word. Incremental shortening of vowel duration initially shows a stable degree of perceived naturalness but rapidly deteriorates beyond a certain point. On the contrary, only a small degree of lengthening of the vowel made the perceived naturalness of the word quickly decay, but there was a floor effect such that the perceived degree of naturalness does not lower beyond a certain level. Further, the tokens with the original vowel duration were not always scored higher than the stimuli with a small degree of shortening. Future studies should address the issue of speaking rate and the ratio between the vowel and the stop closure duration to better understand the phenomenon. The issue investigated here has implications on the role of prototypical exemplars in the perception of phonotactic naturalness.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.199-203
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• 2021

This paper provides practical suggestions for how palliative care clinicians can address the expressions of spiritual struggle voiced by patients and their loved ones. In addition to practical tips for listening and responding, ethical guidance and opportunities for self-reflection related to spiritual care are briefly discussed. Principles to guide practice when the clinician is listening and responding to a patient expressing spiritual struggle include being non-directive, honoring (vs. judging) the patient's spiritual or religious experience, keeping the conversation patient-centered, focusing on the core theme of what the patient is expressing presently, using the patient's terminology and framing, and responding "heart to heart" or "head to head" to align with the patient. Ultimately, the goal of a healing response from a spiritual care generalist is to allow the patient to "hear" or "see" themselves, to gain self-awareness. To converse with patients about spirituality in an ethical manner, the clinician must first assess the patient's spiritual needs and preferences and then honor these.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Fisheries Technology Conference
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• 2000.05a
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• pp.327-327
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• 2000

In the 1990's several economically important marine fisheries collapsed or showed signs of extreme hardship owing to overcapitalization and excessive fishing pressure on the resources. Public concern was raised and demands voiced for more prudent fishery management practices. The United Nations responded and developed international guidelines, such as the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fishing and the UN Straddling Fish Socks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks Agreement These guidelines task fishery managers to take prudent steps to ensure the long-term viability of fisheries and fishery resources. Included in the guidelines are two particular demands that will challenge stock assessment scientists in the new millennium. They are application of the precautionary approach and the inclusion of ecological considerations in assessments and management advice. High-lighted in the presentation are examples from the central-western Pacifi skipjack tuna fishery and the eastern Pacific thresher shark fishery where insufficien information is affecting stock assessments. The shortcomings are further linked t the new challenges of applying the precautionary approach, such as reference points, and ecological considerations, such as predator-prey and oceanographic-regime shift.(omitted)

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.39-48
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• 2009

Previous studies on the effects of speaking rate on voice onset time (VOT) of stops in English, French, Icelandic, and Thai indicate that speaking rate asymmetrically affects VOT values. That is, pre-voiced and long-lag stops vary due to the rate factor more than short-lag stops do. One suggested explanation for this asymmetry is that it is due to the necessity of maintaining phonetic contrasts among the stop categories. Since pre-voiced and long-lag stops represent the ends of the VOT scale, they encompass broad swathes of that range and consequently allow for large variations. On the other hand, the VOT variations of short-lag stops may result in overlap with the VOTs of long-lag stops. This study aimed to explore the effects of speaking rate on the VOTs of Korean stops and see whether Korean fortis and lenis stops are limited in the degrees of variation as a function of rates due to the existence of stops with larger VOT values, lenis and aspirated stops respectively. Conversely, aspirated stops were expected to show more variation since there are no other categories with longer VOTs. Fortis, lenis, and aspirated stops in /CVn/ words (C = bilabial or velar stop, V = /i/ or /a/) were examined in isolation, and at normal and fast rates in a carrier sentence. Speaking rates were controlled by alternating words or sentences on a computer screen at intervals of two seconds for the isolation- and normal-rate conditions and one second for the fast-rate condition. This study found that while the VOTs of fortis stops did not change significantly, those of lenis and aspirated stops showed considerable changes as a function of speaking rates. Also, overlap between lenis and aspirated stops occurred considerably at all speaking rates. These phenomena were interpreted to relate to the fact that VOT contrasts between lenis and aspirated stops in Korean are currently being collapsed. Large variations of lenis stops as a function of rates seem to occur due to a weak motivation to limit the degree of variations for the purpose of maintaining phonetic contrasts. The significant overlap between lenis and aspirated stops at all rates was interpreted to occur because the VOT merger between the two categories became considerably fixed. Also the percentage of correctly-classified VOTs by optimal-boundary values between lenis and aspirated stops turned out to be lower than in previously-studied languages. This was interpreted to be further evidence that VOTs are losing their role in contrasting the two stop categories in Korean.