• 음성과학
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.49-65
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• 2006

Recently, several theories on the digital speech signal processing expanded the communication boundary between human beings and machines drastically. The aim of this study is to collect dialectal speech in Korea on a large scale and to establish a digital speech data base in order to provide the data base for further research on the Korean dialectal and the creation of value-added network. 528 informants across the country participated in this study. Acoustic characteristics of vowels and consonants are analyzed by Power spectrum and Spectrogram of CSL. Test words were made on the picture cards and letter cards which contained each vowel and each consonant in the initial position of words. Plot formants were depicted on a vowel chart and transitions of diphthongs were compared according to dialectal speech. Spectral times, VOT, VD, and TD were measured on a Spectrogram for stop consonants, and fricative frequency, intensity, and lateral formants (LF1, LF2, LF3) for fricative consonants. Nasal formants (NF1, NF2, NF3) were analyzed for different nasalities of nasal consonants. The acoustic characteristics of dialectal speech showed that young generation speakers did not show distinction between close-mid /e/ and open-mid$/\epsilon/$. The diphthongs /we/ and /wj/ showed simple vowels or diphthongs depending to dialect speech. The sibilant sound /s/ showed the aspiration preceded to fricative noise. Lateral /l/ realized variant /r/ in Kyungsang dialectal speech. The duration of nasal consonants in Chungchong dialectal speech were the longest among the dialects.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제45호
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• pp.63-77
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• 2003

The purpose of voice color conversion is to change the speaker identity perceived from the speech signal. In this paper, we propose a new voice color conversion algorithm through the formant shifting and the spectrum-tilt modification in the frequency domain. The basic idea of this technique is to convert the positions of source formants into those of target speaker's formants through interpolation and decimation and to modify the spectrum-tilt by utilizing the information of both speakers' spectrum envelops. The LPC spectrum is adopted to evaluate the position of formant and the information of spectrum-tilt. Our algorithm enables us to convert the speaker identity rather successfully while maintaining good speech quality, since it modifies speech waveforms directly in the frequency domain.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.29-35
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to measure the first two vowel formants of the forty male and female speakers (twenty young vs. old male speakers and twenty young vs. old female speakers) from the Buckeye Corpus of Conversational Speech and to examine the vowel formant changes across two generations (younger vs. older). The results indicated that the vowel space of the younger generation (in their thirties or less) shifted to the lower left position compared to those of the older generation (in their forties or more) in both male and female speakers. When the results were compared to those of Peterson & Barney (1952), it appears that differences can be found in the size of the vowel spaces through time.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.65-72
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to extract the first two vowel formant frequencies of the forty speakers from the Seoul corpus[8] and to compare them by the age and sex. The results showed that the vowel formants showed similar patterns between male and female speakers. All the vowels in each age group and all the age groups in each vowel had main effects on either of the formant frequencies. Whereas in English, the vowel space of the older age group moved slightly to the upper right side relative to the younger group, the location of the vowel spaces of the Korean vowels were not as consistent.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 1993

In this study, the extractions of formants and articulatory motion trajectories for Korean complex vowels are performed by using the RLSL adaptive linear prediction filter. This enables us to extract accurate spectrum in transition of speech signal. This study shows that the RLSL algorithm is superior to the Levinson algorithm, specially in transition part of speech.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.60-64
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 소프라노가 성악 발성으로 한국어 단모음을 발음할 때, 그 단모음들의 포르만트가 F0(Fundamental frequency)에 따라 어떻게 바뀌어지는지 연구되었다. 일반적으로 다른 파트의 경우와는 달리, 소프라노가 노래를 할 때에는 포르만트가 그 F0의 영향을 크게 받는 것으로 알려져 있다. 따라서, 성악발성에 대한 연구를 위해서는 소프라노가 발성할 수 있는 전 음역 대의 F0에서 각 모음에 대한 포르만트 분석이 필요하다. 이러한 분석 결과를 바탕으로 성악 발성의 특징들을 패턴화하여 성악발성 평가 시스템이나 성악발성 합성 시스템을 구축할 수 있다. 5명의 전문 소프라노를 대상으로 '아, 에, 이, 오, 우' 5모음의 성악발성을 A3(220.0Hz)에서부터 A5(880.0Hz)까지의 피치에서 포르만트 분석을 하였다. 또한, 일반적인 대화 시 이 5가지 모음의 포르만트를 분석하여 성악발성의 경우와 비교하였다. 연구 결과, '아, 에, 이'의 F2/F1의 그래프가, B4(493.8Hz)이상의 F0에서는 거의 직선으로 나타났다. B4는 Changing Voice가 시작되는 곳으로, 성악가의 음색 변화가 포르만트 형태의 변화와 밀접한 관계가 있음을 알 수 있다. 또한, A5에서는 '아, 에, 이, 오, 우'의 F1, F2의 수치가 거의 일치하는 것으로 나타났다. 즉, 최고음부에서 불려지는 모음들은 서로 구별되기가 어렵게 되는 것이다. 본 논문은 성악발성 평가 시스템이나 성악발성 합성 시스템을 구축할 때에, '아, 오, 우'의 경우에는 B4에서 A5의 F1, F2를 F0대한 기울기로 규정화할 것을 제안한다. 이와 같은 규정화를 통하여 성악발성과 관련된 시스템 구축에 필요한 노력과 비용을 줄일 수 있을 것이다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1223-1226
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• 1998

The pre-emephasis filter as the conventional method emphasizes all components of high frequency that reflects the speaker characteristics. However this filter don't show the auditory characteristics of speaker's speech. In order to emphasize the perceptual characteristics, we propose the speaker recognition system that uses the perceptual weighting as the preprocessor because the Auditory characteristic of human is sensitive to the formant peaks. This filter has the characteristcs that both deemphasizes the low-formants and emphasizes the high formants. As a result of the proposed method, we improve the total recognition rate 1.7% better than the conventional method.

• 음성과학
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.121-128
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• 2005

This study was an attempt to determine acoustic characteristics in myna bird's notes. Two myna birds' sounds imitating a normal male voice in his late 20's were sampled and analyzed. The analyses included the mean values of F1, F2, F3 and pitch contours. The results were as follows; First, there was a significan difference in the mean values of F1, F2, and F3 in isolatd vowel /a/ and /i/ between the myna birds' sounds and the human voice. However, there was no apparent difference in pitch contour of their formants. Second, there was a difference in pitch contour of their formants in their sentence ('hn-nyung-ha-se-yo?' meaning 'How are you?') production. Namely, the myna birds' pitch contour was located higher than that of the human's.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.81-90
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• 2013

The purposes of this study are to: (1) Compare the vowel production of English front vowels produced by Korean speakers using regional dialects and; (2) Investigate and compare the effectiveness of pronunciation training for each regional dialect group. To test these objectives, the English front vowels produced by five Youngnam dialect male speakers, five Youngnam dialect female speakers, five Kangwon dialect male speakers, and five Kangwon dialect female speakers were scrutinized. These dialect groups' vowel formants and length of English front vowels were evaluated, and the post-pronunciation training values were compared with those of pre-training values. The results indicate that pronunciation training is more effective for Youngnam dialect speakers, whilst both dialect groups have more success mastering the pronunciation of /${\varepsilon}$/ over /${\ae}$/.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.53-58
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to compare the first two vowel formants of the stressed and unstressed English vowels produced by ten young males (in their twenties and thirties) and ten old males (in their forties or fifties) from the Buckeye Corpus of Conversational Speech. The results indicate that the stressed and unstressed vowels, /i/ and $/{\ae}/$ in particular, from the two groups are different in their formant frequencies. In addition, the vowel space of the unstressed vowels is somewhat smaller than that of the stressed vowels. Specifically, the range of the second formant of the unstressed vowels and that of the first formant of the unstressed front vowels were compressed. The findings from this study can be applied to the pronunciation training for the Korean learners of English vowels. We propose that teachers of English pay attention to the stress patterns of English vowels as well as their formant frequencies.