• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.73-83
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• 2020

Measured values may differ between Multi-Dimensional Voice Program (MDVP), Praat, and Time-Frequency Analysis software (TF32), all of which are widely used in voice quality analysis, due to differences in the algorithms used in each analyzer. Therefore, this study aimed to compare the values of parameters of normal voice measured with each analyzer. After tokens of the vowel sound /a/ were collected from 35 normal adult subjects (19 male and 16 female), they were analyzed with MDVP, Praat, and TF32. The mean values obtained from Praat for jitter variables (J local, J abs, J rap, and J ppq), shimmer variables (S local, S dB, and S apq), and noise-to-harmonics ratio (NHR) were significantly lower than those from MDVP in both males and females (p<.01). The mean values of J local, J abs, and S local were significantly lower in the order MDVP, Praat, and TF32 in both genders. In conclusion, the measured values differed across voice analyzers due to the differences in the algorithms each analyzer uses. Therefore, it is important for clinicians to analyze pathologic voice after understanding the normal criteria used by each analyzer when they use a voice analyzer in clinical practice.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.4C
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• pp.347-353
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• 2012

In this paper, we carried out experiments to analyze influence of vocal cords according to changes of water temperature. We would like to particularly perform a study to design voice measurement system for significant extraction about vibration patterns of vocal cords according to temperature changes of water to drink. To this end, we measured elements value of voice analysis vibration of vocal cords to change, when drank, temperature difference of step 8 from $0^{\circ}C$ to $70^{\circ}C$ to $10^{\circ}C$ intervals. As a result of us experiment, when drank water of $30^{\circ}C{\sim}40^{\circ}C$, vibration of vocal cords stabilized and accuracy of pronunciation improved. We can analyzed that water of $30^{\circ}C{\sim}40^{\circ}C$ had a good effect in vocal cords.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.159-166
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• 2014

In this paper, we examine the role of emotional acoustic cues including both prosody and voice quality parameters for the modification of a word sense. For the extraction of prosody parameters and voice quality parameters, we used 60 pieces of speech data spoken by six speakers with five different emotional states. We analyzed eight different emotional acoustic cues, and used a discriminant analysis technique in order to find the dominant sequence of acoustic cues. As a result, we found that anger has a close relation with intensity level and 2nd formant bandwidth range; joy has a relative relation with the position of 2nd and 3rd formant values and intensity level; sadness has a strong relation only with prosody cues such as intensity level and pitch level; and fear has a relation with pitch level and 2nd formant value with its bandwidth range. These findings can be used as the guideline for find-tuning an emotional spoken language generation system, because these distinct sequences of acoustic cues reveal the subtle characteristics of each emotional state.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1992.06a
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• pp.49-53
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• 1992

In many applications such as speech analysis, speech coding, speech recognition, etc., the voiced-unvoiced decision should be performed correctly for efficient processing. One of the parameters which are used for voice-unvoiced decision is zero-crossing. But the information of higher formants have not represented as the zero-crossing rate for higher formants of speech signals.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10c
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• pp.325-327
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• 2004

VoIP는 음성 및 데이터 통합 뿐만 아니라 차세대 네트웍 등의 기반이 되는 기술이며, 인터넷전화 / IP Telephony, 화상회의, 메신저 서비스 등 여러 서비스에 활용되고 있다. 이러한 VoIP 서비스 제공시에 가장 중요시되는 부분이 음성품질이며 이를 측정 및 관리하는 기술이 필수적으로 필요하다. 지금까지는 품질측정장비를 가지고 직접 측정하는 것이 전부였으나 본 연구는 IETF의 VoIP 표준 프로토콜인 MGCP중 파라미터 값을 이용하여 ITU-T의 음성품질 기준인 R factor(G.107)를 계산해 내고 중앙에서 모든 단말 및 사용자들의 실제 발생한 통화에 대한 음성품질을 관리할 수 있는 시스템을 설계 및 구현한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1990.07a
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• pp.47-50
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• 1990

Deafs cannot speak straight voice as normal people in lack of feedback of their pronunciation, therefore speech training is required. In this study, fundamental frequency, intensity, formant frequencies, vocal tract graphic and vocal tract area function, extracted from speech signal, are used as feature parameter. AR model, whose coefficients are extracted using inverse filtering. is used as speech generation model. In connect ion between vocal tract graphic and speech parameter, articulation distances and articulation distance functions in selected 15-intervals are determined by extracted vocal tract areas and formant frequencies.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.81-88
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a novel speech enhancement algorithm for effective noise suppression in various noisy environments. In the proposed method, to result in improved decision performance for speech and noise segments, local speech absence probability (LSAP, local SAP) based on Teager energy of noisy speech is used as the feature parameter for voice activity detection (VAD) in each frequency subband instead of conventional LSAP. In addition, The presented method utilizes global SAP (GSAP) derived in each frame as the weighting parameter for the modification of the adopted TE operator to improve the performance of TE operator. Performances of the proposed algorithm are evaluated by objective test under various environments and better results compared with the conventional methods are obtained.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.1B
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• pp.93-100
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• 2011

The people frequently drink coffee under stress at work, according to increase attractive of leisure activities, favourite food in modern society. The coffee taste which we are catching the taste of modern people is depending on various kinds processing methods such as a mixture of beans. However, the most coffee contains $C_8H_{10}O_2N_4$ which affected various parts of the body. These $C_8H_{10}O_2N_4$, is that the main component of coffee is caffeine. Therefore, in this paper, we are analyzed influence about articulator according to increase in $C_8H_{10}O_2N_4$ 250mg contains a cup of coffee. From this, we gradually increased the amount of $C_8H_{10}O_2N_4$ intake about thirty persons of men in his 20's in experiments. Then we performed a study about Jitter, Formant, Spectrum in voice analysis parameter by applying the results having an affect articulator.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.75-80
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• 2010

The present research investigated the characteristics of voice between genders and nationalities by measuring the acoustic parameter values of Korean and Chinese students. Sound Forge was used to collect voice samples and Praat was used to measure and analyze jitter, shimmer, NHR, $sF_0$, and pitch range. The results of this research are a follows. First, during prolongation of the vowels, there was no significant difference in $F_0$ between Korean and Chinese males and Korean and Chinese females. Korean males and females had higher $F_0$ values than Chinese males and females. Secondly, during sentence reading, there was no significant difference between Korean and Chinese males in $sF_0$. But between female groups, there was a significant difference in $sF_0$. Thirdly, during sentence reading, the pitch range in Korean males was found to be narrower compared to Korean and Chinese females who had wider pitch range, showing a significant difference. Fourthly, jitter in the five vowels /a, i, u, e, o/ was found to be higher in Chinese than Korean subjects. In the vowels /a, e, u/ females were higher than males showing a significant difference. Fifthly, shimmer in the vowels /a, e, u/ was found to be higher in Chinese than Korean subjects showing a significant difference. Finally, NHR in the vowels /a, u, o/ was found to be higher in Chinese than Korean subjects showing a significant difference.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.773-778
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• 2014

IDS(Intrusion Detection System) can be used as a countermeasure for blackhole attacks which cause degrade of transmission performance by causing of malicious intrusion to routing function of networks. In this paper, effects of IDS for transmission performance based on mobility patterns is analyzed for MANET(Mobile Ad-hoc Networks), a suggestion for effective countermeasure is considered. Computer simulation based on NS-2 is used in performance analysis, VoIP(Voice over Internet Protocol) as an application service is chosen for performance measure. MOS(Mean Opinion Score), call connection ratio and end-to-end delay is used as performance parameter.