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The Perceptual Evaluation and Aerodynamic Analysis of Spasmodic Dysphonia (연축성발성장애의 청지각적 평가 및 공기역학적 특성)

  • Park, Sun-Young;Kim, Jae-Ock;Lim, Sung-Eun;Nam, Do-Hyun;Choi, Hong-Shik
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Laryngology, Phoniatrics and Logopedics
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.38-42
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    • 2008
  • Background and Objectives : This study was performed to investigate the perceptual and aerodynamic characteristics and the relation between vocal efficiency and the severity of strained voice. of adductor spasmodic dysphonia. Materials and Methods : 13 female patients with adductor spasmodic dysphonia were examined and compared with 10 normal female control group. MPT, MFR, Psub, Sound Intensity, VE(vocal efficiency) were obtained using PAS(Phonatory Aerodynamic System). GRBA(S) scale was used for Perceptual evaluation. Results : Psub(subglottic pressure) of SD was significantly higher than normal group. MPT, MFR, Sound Intensity, VE were not significantly different between two groups. Correlation between VE and 'S'(strained) was not significant. Conclusion : The results of this study show that certain aerodynamic parameters(Psub) distinguish adductor spasmodic dysphonia from normal voice.

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A Study on Infant Respiratory Diseases Diagnosis using Frequency Bandwidth Analysis of Crying Waveform (울음소리의 주파수 대역폭 분석을 이용한 소아호흡기 질환 진단에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Bong-Hyun;Cho, Dong-Uk
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.33 no.12B
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    • pp.1123-1130
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    • 2008
  • Baby's diseases diagnosis has inconvenient for received direct coming to help that order expression ability was insufficiency which consciousness situation concern about the infant health because of birth rate and decrease the marriage rate and divorce rate. So in this paper through the infant crying sound about home a foundation which infant diseases develop the system comparison normal infant with take a infant that analysis the extract the voice analytics component. Especially this paper propose about the methodology for development system that infant cold, infant pneumonia, infant asthma among extract the crying sound feature part for infant respiratory diseases discussion the most easy has involved the infant. So infant respiratory put case stimulus diseases about all voice organs and experiment the analysis method through the bandwidth about phonetics analysis component that comparison normal infant with take a respiratory infant. Through these method, we were extracted to results that infant's frequency bandwidth suffering from respiratory diseases than a normal infant is short.

A Bypass Scheme for INVITE Messages With Priority in SIP Proxies (SIP 프록시에서 우선순위를 가지는 INVITE 메시지의 우회 방법)

  • Kwon, Oh-Jun;Jang, Hee-Suk;Lee, Jong-Min
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.51-58
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    • 2010
  • SIP is a flexible and extensible call setup protocol that may be combined with other protocols used in the Internet to make various services like voice communication. Voice communication can be classified into normal calls used for communication between common users and emergency calls for 112, 119 and other services through public safety networks. It is required to research to process effectively these normal calls and emergency calls through public networks such as the Internet. In this paper, we propose a bypass scheme for emergency calls by giving priority to INVITE messages for them and processing them with priority in the SIP proxy queue. We perform simulation studies using the network simulator ns-2 for the performance evaluation. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme processes emergency calls faster than normal calls and thus it is expected to make a special purpose network like the national disaster network efficiently by using the existing Internet.

Gender Analysis in Elderly Speech Signal Processing (노인음성신호처리에서의 젠더 분석)

  • Lee, JiYeoun
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.16 no.10
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    • pp.351-356
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    • 2018
  • Changes in vocal cords due to aging can change the frequency of speech, and the speech signals of the elderly can be automatically distinguished from normal speech signals through various analyzes. The purpose of this study is to provide a tool that can be easily accessed by the elderly and disabled people who can be excluded from the rapidly changing technological society and to improve the voice recognition performance. In the study, the gender of the subjects was reported as sex analysis, and the number of female and male voice samples was used equally. In addition, the gender analysis was applied to set the voices of the elderly without using voices of all ages. Finally, we applied a review methodology of standards and reference models to reduce gender difference. 10 Korean women and 10 men aged 70 to 80 years old are used in this study. Comparing the F0 value extracted directly with the waveform and the F0 extracted with TF32 and the Wavesufer speech analysis program, Wavesufer analyzed the F0 of the elderly voice better than TF32. However, there is a need for a voice analysis program for elderly people. In conclusions, analyzing the voice of the elderly will improve speech recognition and synthesis capabilities of existing smart medical systems.

Development and validation of Speech Range Profile task (발화범위 프로파일 과제 개발 및 타당성 검증)

  • Kim, Jaeock;Lee, Seung Jin
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.77-87
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    • 2019
  • The study aimed to develop Speech Range Profile (SRP) and to examine and validate its clinical application. Forty-five participants without voice disorders aged 18-29 years were compared using SRP and Voice Range Profile (VRP). The authors developed the "Fire!" paragraph as a SRP task compromising 14 sentences including all Korean spoken phonemes and sentence types. To compare SRP and VRP results, the participants read the paragraph (reading) and counted from 21 to 30 (counting) as a part of SRP tasks, and produced a vowel /a/ from low to high frequencies (gliding) and a shortened form of the VRP as a part of VRP tasks. $F0_{max}$, $F0_{min}$, $F0_{range}$, $I_{max}$, $I_{min}$, and $I_{range}$ for each task were measured and compared, showing that $F0_{max}$, $F0_{min}$, $F0_{range}$, $I_{max}$, and $I_{range}$ were not different between reading and gliding. $I_{min}$, had the lowest value in counting. It is concluded that the newly developed SRP task, reading the "Fire" paragraph, can yield a maximum phonation range similar to that found by VRP. Therefore, it is expected that voice evaluation can be effectively performed in a relatively short time by applying SRP with the "Fire" paragraph, a functional utterance task, in place of VRP, which may be difficult to measure long term or in cases of severe voice disorders.

A Study on the VoIP Security Countermeasure of SIP-based (SIP(Session Initiation Protocol) 기반의 VoIP 보안 대책 연구)

  • Tae, Jang-Won;Kwak, Jin-Suk
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.421-428
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    • 2013
  • Voice over IP refers to technology that enables routing of voice conversations over the Internet or a TCP/IP network. VoIP communication costs cheaper than traditional analog phone. Phone calls can be made to anywhere / anyone: Both to VoIP numbers as well as people with normal phone numbers. VoIP protocol equipment available today follows the SIP standard. Older VoIP equipment though would follow H 323, MGCP, Megaco/H.248. A SIP server is the main component of an IP PBX, dealing with the setup of all SIP calls in the TCP/IP network. A SIP server is also referred to a Asterisk IP-PBX. A VoIP telephone, also known as a SIP phone or a softphone, allows the user to make phone calls to any softphone, mobile or PC by using App store. A VoIP telephone can be a simple software-based softphone. However, the SIP Server and the program is vulnerable to VoIP attacks. In this paper, eavesdropping attacks tested by using the Asterisk SIP server. Eavesdropping attacks and TLS security methods apply to VoIP system. TLS can be applied to determine whether the eavesdropping available for VoIP Environments.

A Design of Kidney Diseases Diagnosis Method Using Formant Frequency Bandwidth Extraction and Analysis (포먼트 주파수 대역폭 추출 및 분석을 이용한 신장 질환 진단 방법의 설계)

  • Kim, Bong-Hyun;Cho, Dong-Uk
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.34 no.10B
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    • pp.1062-1069
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    • 2009
  • The kidney diseases is a big social problem what is suffering sequela of metabolic syndrome due to obesity. Therefore, it is most important that early to take the appropriate action; it does not have symptoms Abnormalities of the kidney. With this, in mind, this paper wish to propose the method to can diagnosis by non self-consciousness, non-imprisonment, analgesia of kidney disease through the voice analysis. To configure the entire system is developed to combines the voice analysis, watching the face color and this paper is designed the method to diagnosis kidney disease based on labial. In this paper, organized each kidney disease patients and healthy people group and we would like to analyze, compare with output in experiment morphology analysis and numerical value analysis of voice information. Secondly, auscultation theory of Oriental medicine and linguistic, phonetics analyze out interrelation to extraction peculiar elements of kidney about voice deduction deduced relation of the first formants frequency. Such result of experimentation, deduced widely to be formed the first formants frequency bandwidth value of kidney patients group than normal group. Finally, diagnosing an kidney diseases in only labial sound, calculated about misdiagnosis probability.

An Acoustic Analysis of Speech in Patients with Nonfluent Aphasia (비 유창성 실어증 환자 말소리의 음향학적 분석)

  • Kim, Hyun-Gi;Kang, Eun-Young;Kim, Yun-Hee
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.87-97
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the speech duration in Korean-speaking aphasics. Five patients with nonfluent aphasia (2 with traumatic brain injury and 3 with strokes) and five normal adults participated in this experiment. The mean age in patients with nonfluent aphasia was $45.8\pm2.3$ years and $47.4\pm2.3$ years for the normal adults. The Computerized Speech Lab was used to evaluate the acoustic characteristics of the subjects. Voice onset time, vowel duration, total duration, hold and consonant duration were evaluated for the monosyllabic and the polysyllabic words. The patients with nonfluent aphasia did not show the voicing bar on hold area, however, it was seen in the normal persons in the intervocalic position. Explosion duration of glottalized stops in the intervocalic position was significantly prolonged in nonfluent aphasics in comparison with the normal persons. This suggestes that the laryngeal adjustment is disturbed in these patients. Consonant duration, vowel duration, and total duration of the polysyllabic words were significantly longer in the patients with nonfluent aphasia than those of the normal persons. These results demonstrate the disturbances in controlling articulatory muscles during sound production in patients with nonfluent aphasia. The objective and quantitative analysis based on the acoustic characteristics of nonfluent aphasics, will be very useful in therapeutic planning and on the the effects of speech therapy.

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The Phonatory Characteristics of the Profound Hearing-Impaired Adults' Voice: with Reference to F0, Intensity, and their Perturbations (심도 청각장애 성인의 발성 특성: 강도, 음도, 및 그 변동율을 중심으로)

  • Choi, Eun-Ah;Park, Han-Sang;Seong, Cheol-Jae
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.177-185
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    • 2009
  • This study investigates the differences in mean F0, intensity, jitter and shimmer across hearing aid, gender and vowels. For this study, 20 hearing-impaired adults and 20 normal hearing adults as a control group were asked to read 7 Korean vowels(/$\alpha$, $\Lambda$, o, u, ɯ, i, $\varepsilon$/). Subjects' readings were recorded by NasalView and analyzed by Praat. Results showed that the means of F0 were significantly higher in the hearing impaired group(HL) than in the normal hearing group(NH), in the female group than in male group, and in high vowels than in low vowels. Second, intensity was significantly higher in the normal hearing group(NH) than in the hearing impaired group(HL), in male group than in female group, and in low vowels than in high vowels. Third, jitter was significantly higher in the normal hearing group(NH) than in the hearing impaired group(HL), and in female group than in male group and in the back vowels than in front vowels. Finally, shimmer was significantly higher in the normal hearing group(NH) than in the hearing impaired group(HL), and in male group than in female group. In particular, the male group showed that front vowels tend to have higher shimmer than back vowels.

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The Phonatory Characteristics of Voice in Profoundly Hearing-Impaired Children: with Reference to F0, Intensity, and their Perturbations (심도 청각장애 아동의 발성특성: 강도, 음도 및 그 변동률을 중심으로)

  • Choi, Eun-Ah;Park, Han-Sang;Seong, Cheol-Jae
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.135-145
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    • 2010
  • This study investigates the differences in mean F0, intensity, jitter, and shimmer across hearing aid, gender, and vowels. For this study, 18 hearing-impaired children, 18 cochlear implanted children, and 18 normal hearing children as a control group were asked to read seven Korean vowels (/$\alpha$, $\wedge$, o, u, w, i, $\varepsilon$/). Subjects' readings were recorded by NasalView and analyzed by Praat. Results showed that the means of F0 were significantly higher in the hearing impaired group than in the normal hearing group; in the female group than in the male group; and in high vowels than in low vowels. Second, intensity was significantly higher in the hearing impaired group than in the normal hearing group; in the female group than in the male group; and in low vowels than in high vowels. Third, jitter was significantly higher in the normal hearing group than in the hearing impaired group; in the female group than in the male group; and in back vowels than in front vowels. Finally, shimmer was significantly higher in the CI group than in the normal hearing group or the hearing aided group; in the male group than in the female group; and in low vowels than in high vowels.

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