• 음성과학
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.109-120
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to examine the awareness level of the prolonged sound rules in elementary school students. The participants in this study were 148 elementary school students in grades 1 through 6. Their awareness level of the prolonged sound rules was evaluated on reading tasks composed of 40 words and sentences. An one-way ANOVA followed by Scheffe hoc tests showed the showed the statistically significant difference between the groups for the awareness level of prolonged sound rules. The younger the children, the larger differences in the awareness of prolonged sound rules. The awareness might affect their cognitive development and a systematic instruction may be helpful especially in lower graders. In conclusion, the findings of this study showed significant differences in the awareness level of the prolonged sound rules at both words and sentences level. It was also found that as the age of children increases, the awareness level of the prolonged sound rules tends to increase which appeared to be completed by the 3rd grade.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.283-288
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• 1990

As one of the main purpose of the physical management of cleft palate is to provide for the anatomic and physiologic requisites for speech, the speech must be as one of the criteria for determining when physical management has been achieved. But there is no objective methods to evaluate the speech of cleft palate patients. The authors tried to analyze the speech of adult cleft palate patients using sound spectrog raphy and compared with normal adults. The results were obtained as follows ; 1. In Vowels, cleft palate patients of both sexes showed reduction of frequency of the first and second formant as compared to normal. There was minimal difference in front vowels (i, e, ae) 2. In consonants, cleft palate patients showed reduction of frequency of the first formant in both sexes but reduction of frequency of the second formant was noticed only in fe- male patients. 3. There was no statistical difference in sound spectrograph between plosive, fricative, africative, nasal, and glide consonants.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1998년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.173-174
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• 1998

We developed the high power telephone for hearing impaired person (HIP) who can't communicate with others by general telephone. The general telephone can't delivered enough sound for HIP to understand telephone speech. In this study, we developed the method of telephone speech amplification proper to HIP and effective howling suppression which occurred as a side effect of amplification. In our new telephone, speech sound is divieded to 3 band pass filter path, amplified respectively fit to HIP's hearing ability, and monitored howling in time domain. The result of test of our telephone showed that we can amplify the sound as much as 40dB, which is very useful to HIP, and make HIP increase the perception of telephone speech.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.214-226
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• 2013

음질 평가는 좋은 소리를 만들기 위해 필수적인 요소이며, 음향의 특성과 대상 시스템에 따라 다양한 방법이 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 음질 평가법의 전반적인 방법론 및 전송 처리된 음향 신호의 품질 평가법에 대해 ITU-T, ITU-R, IEC, 그리고 ANSI 등의 권고안에 기술된 국제 표준을 중심으로 요약하고 분석하였다. 분야별로는 음성 명료도, 음성 음질, 그리고 오디오 음질 평가법을 다루었으며, 현재 사용되는 권고안의 기술적인 내용과 최신 연구 동향 및 향후 발전 방향 등에 대해 기술하였다.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2005년도 추계 학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.117-120
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• 2005

This paper suggests an algorithm that can estimate the direction of the sound source in realtime. Our intelligent service robot, WEVER, is used to implement the proposed method at the home environment. The algorithm uses the time difference and sound intensity information among the recorded sound source by four microphones. Also, to deal with noise of robot itself, the kalman filter is implemented. The proposed method takes shorter execution time than that of an existing algorithm to fit the real-time service robot. The result shows relatively small error within the range of ${\pm}$ 7 degree.

• 음성과학
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.135-142
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• 2005

An important aspect of video indexing is the ability to segment video into meaningful segments, i.e., content-based video segmentation. Since the audio signal in the sound track is synchronized with image sequences in the video program, a speech signal in the sound track can be used to segment video into meaningful segments. In this paper, we propose a new approach to content-based video segmentation. This approach uses closed caption to construct a recognition network for speech recognition. Accurate time information for video segmentation is then obtained from the speech recognition process. For the video segmentation experiment for TV news programs, we made 56 video summaries successfully from 57 TV news stories. It demonstrates that the proposed scheme is very promising for content-based video segmentation.

• 음성과학
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.83-90
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• 2000

The purpose of this study was to examine some acoustic characteristics in the ear canal. It was assumed that a sound outside the external auditory canal could be different from the sound inside the external auditory canal. The acoustic signals were captured by a probe microphone placed at a distance within 1 cm from the tympanic membrane, and a reference microphone was placed over the upper pinna. Three vowels /a/, /i/, /u/ were recorded from a normal adult male speaker. The parameters such as the formant frequency ($Fl\simF5$) and the peak intensity were measured using a speech analyser, PCquirer. It was found that the entering part of the external auditory canal functions as a narrowing point as to the speech that passes through the free field. Results show that acoustic characteristics were changed for speech discrimination rather than speech perception.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.131-138
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• 2016

This study analyzes the characteristics of good impression using speech manipulation scripts and investigates the characteristics of preferred speech voice. Fourty male and female college students participated in this study. They have been exposed to the Gyeongsang dialect spoken by their friends and family for more than 15 years. Two sample voices(1 male and 1 female), considered as giving good impression, were subject to voice analysis. Two students were asked to read the sample paragraph of 'Walking' and their voice samples were analyzed through Praat. The collected speech data were manipulated into 4 different sets by changing pitch level, degree of loudness and speech rate. First, both men and women received good impression more from pitch-lowered sound than from the original one. Second, men tended to receive good impression more from slightly louder voice than from the natural-pitched one. Third, it was shown that men often felt more drowned to a voice at slightly faster speech rate than at the original speech rate. Overall, both male and female listeners favored lower pitch over the original pitch. Men tended to prefer louder voice sound while women preferred less loud one. Men received better impression at a lower speech rate but women at a faster speech rate.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.127-134
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 다양한 두께의 유리창을 대상으로 레이저 원격 도청 가능성을 검토한다. MLS 신호음을 사용하여 유리창을 진동시키고 레이저 도플러센서로 진동음을 탐지한다. 탐지된 진동음으로부터 음성정보의 인식 수준인 음성명료도를 객관적으로 평가한다. 평가에는 변조전송함수에 근거하여 결정되는 음성전송지수를 사용한다. 또한, 외부 스피커와 유리창 교란기로 각각 교란파를 발생시켜, 배경소음과 도청방지기의 음성명료도에 대한 교란효과를 평가한다. 다양한 두께의 유리창을 대상으로 레이저 원격 도청음의 음성인식 수준과 국산 도청 방지장치의 도청방지 성능을 평가하는 데에 본 연구의 목적이 있다.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.91-96
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• 2014

두 개의 입력소자에 의한 음원방향 및 분리방법으로서는 연산량이 적고, 음원분리 성능이 높은 주파수 양귀 모델(Frequency Domain Binaural Model : FDBM)이 있다. FDBM은 주파수 영역에서 양귀간 위상차(Interaural Phase Difference : IPD) 및 양귀간 레벨차(Interaural Level Difference : ILD)를 구하여 음향신호가 오는 방향과 음원의 분리처리를 한다. 그러나 실제 환경에서는 반사음의 문제가 되고 있다. 이러한 반사음에 의한 영향을 줄이기 위하여 선행음 효과에 의한 직접음의 음상정위를 모의하여 초기 도착음을 검출하고 직접음이 오는 방향과 음원분리 방법을 제시하였다. 제시한 방법을 이용하여 음원방향 추정 및 분리에 대한 성능을 시뮬레이션으로 검토하였다. 그 결과, 방향추정은 음원이 오는 방향에서 ${\pm}10%$의 범위로 집중되어 음원의 방향과 가까운 값으로 추정되었다, 반사음이 존재하는 경우의 음원분리는 기존의 FDBM에 비하여 코히런스(Coherence), 음성품질 지각평가 PESQ(Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality : PESQ)가 높고, 정면에서의 지향특성 감쇠량이 작아 분리의 정도가 개선됨을 나타내었다. 그러나 반사음이 존재하지 않는 경우는 분리 정도가 낮았다.