• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.141-148
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• 2014

Voice is the most common means for communication, but some people have difficulties in generating voice due to their congenital or acquired disorders. Individuals with speech disorders might lose their speaking ability due to hearing impairment, encephalopathy or cerebral palsy accompanied by motor skill impairments, or autism caused by mental problems. However, they have needs for communication, so some of them use various types of AAC (Augmentative & Alternative Communication) devices in order to meet their communication needs. In this paper, a mobile application for literate people having speech disorder was designed and implemented by developing accurate and fast sentence-completion functions for efficient user interaction. From a user study and the previous study on Korean text-based communication for adults having difficulty in speech communication, we identified functionality and usability requirements. Specifically, the user interface with scanning features was designed by considering the users' motor skills in using the touch-screen of a mobile device. Finally, we conducted the usability test for the application. The results of the usability test show that the application is easy to learn and efficient to use in communication with people with speech disorders.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.334-337
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• 2005

The speech intelligibility is one of the most important factors in communication system. The speech intelligibility is related with speech to noise ratio. To enhance the speech to noise ratio, background noise reduction techniques are being developed. As a part of solution to noise reduction, this paper introduces directional microphone using beamforming method and speech filtering method. The directional microphone narrows the spatial range of processing signal into the direction of the target speech signal. The noise signal located in the same direction with speech still remains in the processing signal. To sort this mixed signal into speech and noise, as a following step, a speech-filtering method is applied to pick up only the speech signal from the processed signal. The speech filtering method is based on the characteristics of speech signal itself. The combined directional microphone and speech filtering method gives enhanced performance to speech intelligibility in communication system.

• Journal of Audiology & Otology
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.187-192
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• 2019

Background and Objectives: Clear speech is an effective communication strategy used in difficult listening situations that draws on techniques such as accurate articulation, a slow speech rate, and the inclusion of pauses. Although too slow speech and improperly amplified spectral information can deteriorate overall speech intelligibility, certain amplitude of increments of the mid-frequency bands (1 to 3 dB) and around 50% slower speech rates of clear speech, when compared to those in conversational speech, were reported as factors that can improve speech intelligibility positively. The purpose of this study was to identify whether amplitude increments of mid-frequency areas and slower speech rates were evident in Korean clear speech as they were in English clear speech. Subjects and Methods: To compare the acoustic characteristics of the two methods of speech production, the voices of 60 participants were recorded during conversational speech and then again during clear speech using a standardized sentence material. Results: The speech rate and longterm average speech spectrum (LTASS) were analyzed and compared. Speech rates for clear speech were slower than those for conversational speech. Increased amplitudes in the mid-frequency bands were evident for the LTASS of clear speech. Conclusions:The observed differences in the acoustic characteristics between the two types of speech production suggest that Korean clear speech can be an effective communication strategy to improve speech intelligibility.

• 한국언론정보학보
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• 제69권
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• pp.30-70
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• 2015

본고는 권력과 소통의 관계를 규명하려는 것이다. 이를 위해 본고는 언어 행위론을 도입하여 권력과 소통의 관계를 구체적으로 보여주려 했다. 권력은 다른 사람에게 의도된 효과를 낳을 수 있는 능력이다. 그런데 인간은 언표내 행위라는 언어 행위의 수행을 통해서 다른 사람에게 의도를 전하고 언표외 행위라는 언어 행위에 의해 다른 사람에게 의도된 효과를 낳으려 한다. 말하자면, 권력은 대체로 언어 행위를 통해서 행사된다고 말할 수 있다. 물론, 물리적 강제력 즉 폭력의 경우는 언어 행위를 필요로 하지 않는다. 그러나 물리적 강제력이라고 소통과 아주 무관한 것도 아니다. 더구나 다른 유형의 권력은 그 실행을 위해서 반드시 언어 행위를 필요로 한다. 심리적 강제력을 포함하여 권력은 대체로 언어 행위를 매개로 소통과 밀접합 관계를 맺고 있는 것이다. 본고는 언어 행위론을 통해 권력과 언어 행위가 매우 긴밀한 관계를 맺고 있다는 점, 그리고 더 나아가 권력의 행사는 언어 행위의 하나인 언표외 행위와 동일하며, 권력의 유형에 따라 언어 행위의 유형이 다르며, 언어 행위의 유형이 다름에 따라 그 윤리성도 다르다는 점을 밝히려고 하였다.

• 음성과학
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• 제6권
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• pp.163-179
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• 1999

For the set up, management and repair of a mobile communication system, continuous estimation of speech quality is required. Speech quality measurement can be conducted by listener's judgement in a subjective test such as MOS (Mean Opinion Score) test. However, this method is laborious, expensive and time-consuming, it is advisable to predict subjective speech quality via objective measures. This paper presents a robust objective speech quality measure, PLP-CMS (Perceptual Linear Predictive-Cepstral Mean Subtraction), which can predict subjective speech quality in mobile communication systems. PLP-CMS has a high correlation with subjective quality owing to PLP (Perceptual Linear Predictive) analysis and shows a robust performance not being influenced by PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) channel effects due to CMS (Cepstral Mean Subtraction). To prove the performance of our proposed algorithm, we carried out subjective and objective quality estimation on speech samples which are variously distorted in a real mobile communication system. As a result, we demonstrated that PLP-CMS has a higher correlation with subjective quality than PSQM (Perceptual Speech Quality Measure) and PLP-CD (Perceptual Linear Predictive-Cepstral Distance).

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제46호
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• pp.65-76
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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 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.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2007년도 한국음성과학회 공동학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.315-318
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• 2007

This paper proposes the methods to enhance the speech quality of source controlled variable bit-rate coder based on the waveform interpolation. The methods are to estimate and generate the parameters that are not transmitted from encoder to decoder by the repetition and extrapolation schemes. For the performance evaluation, the PESQ(Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality) scores are measured. The experimental results shows that our proposed method outperforms the conventional source controlled variable bit-rate coder. Especially, the performance of the extrapolation method is better than that of the repetition method.

• 대한청각학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.187-192
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• 2019

Background and Objectives: Clear speech is an effective communication strategy used in difficult listening situations that draws on techniques such as accurate articulation, a slow speech rate, and the inclusion of pauses. Although too slow speech and improperly amplified spectral information can deteriorate overall speech intelligibility, certain amplitude of increments of the mid-frequency bands (1 to 3 dB) and around 50% slower speech rates of clear speech, when compared to those in conversational speech, were reported as factors that can improve speech intelligibility positively. The purpose of this study was to identify whether amplitude increments of mid-frequency areas and slower speech rates were evident in Korean clear speech as they were in English clear speech. Subjects and Methods: To compare the acoustic characteristics of the two methods of speech production, the voices of 60 participants were recorded during conversational speech and then again during clear speech using a standardized sentence material. Results: The speech rate and longterm average speech spectrum (LTASS) were analyzed and compared. Speech rates for clear speech were slower than those for conversational speech. Increased amplitudes in the mid-frequency bands were evident for the LTASS of clear speech. Conclusions:The observed differences in the acoustic characteristics between the two types of speech production suggest that Korean clear speech can be an effective communication strategy to improve speech intelligibility.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.192-201
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• 1993

통신기술이 발전함에 따라 통신망이 아날로그 전송 형태로부터 디지털 전송 형태로 바뀌고 있으며, 궁극적으로는 end-to-end 디지털 통신을 실현하는 종합정보통신망(ISDN)으로 변천하고 있다. 이러한 통신망의 변천에 따라 새로운 망의 설치 및 운용과 더불어 통신의 효율화와 선진화를 달성하기 위한 통화품질의 향상도 중요한 과제로 부각되고 있다. 또한, 새로운 디지털 음성 통신계에서는 통화품질에 영향을 주는 요인들이 기존 아날로그 형태의 음성 통신계와는 다르게 나타나기 때문에 새로운 통화품질의 조건 및 기준을 확립할 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 음성통신과 통화품질과의 관계를 설명하고, 디지틀 음성통신계의 통화품질을 설계하기 위한 평가 실험용 디지틀 통화모델 시스템의 설계 및 개발에 대하여 기술한다. 또한, 구현한 모델 시스템의 몇가지 활용을 제안한다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.261-269
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• 2005

디지털 음성 부호화기는 디지털 통신 시스템의 음성 압축 수단으로 이용되어 왔으며 심한 채널에러와 한정된 주파수 자원과 같은 디지털 무선 통신 시스템 환경에 적합하게 더욱 발전해왔다. 또한 디지털 통신 기술의 비약적인 발전에 따라 사용자는 더욱 높은 수준에 해당하는 음성 서비스를 요구하게 되고 그로 인하여 단순히 의사 전달에 해당하는 음성 서비스에서 높은 수준의 멀티미디어 콘텐츠들을 수용할 수 있는 음성 및 오디오 부호화기의 기술개발로 급격히 전환 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 유선 및 무선 디지털망에서 사용되어지는 음성 / 오디오 부호화기의 기술에 대하여 살펴보고 이와 관련된 표준화 활동 및 기술동향에 대하여 알아본다. 또한 향후 유무선 디지털망의 발전에 따른 디지털 음성 / 오디오 부호화기술의 발전 방향에 대하여 언급한다.