• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.708-708
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• 2004

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.3046-3050
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• 2014

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of 7-point interval scale(EAI) and visual analogue scale(VAS) on perceptual judgement and the reliability of severity on voice problems by dysphonic speakers. 30 undergraduate students studying communication disorder were enrolled in the perceptual evaluation. Those listeners judged overall voice severity within the anchored(condition 1) and non-anchored scales(condition 2) for vowel prolongation and reading tasks by 25 speakers with voice disorder. The results of this study showed that the scores by VAS was significantly higher than EAI in both condition 1 and condition 2 for vowel prolongation and reading task. However, the scores by EAI method was higher than by VAS method on voice severity of vowel prolongation (condition 1) and reading task(condition 2). These results suggest auditory-perceptual scaling procedures must be more studied in the aspects of clinical application of voice disorder.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.576-581
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• 2021

In the post-epidemic era, COVID-19 has not yet been fully controlled. Wearing masks is still the main means of epidemic prevention, and the negative effects brought by masks continue to continue. Wearing a mask for a long time can cause two problems. The first problem is hypoxia, and the other is an increase in psychological stress. To reduce the negative impact of masks, this paper proposes a new breathing mode. It is the "Umm~" vocal breathing mode, which simultaneously solves the two problems of hypoxia and increased stress. This paper explores the reasons why new breathing patterns can relieve stress. Explains the relationship between HRV and stress index and uses SDNN as an indicator to detect stress index to confirm the effectiveness of this breathing pattern. Experimental results prove that the "Umm~" vocal breathing mode can not only relieve the stress induced by wearing a mask. And when not wearing a mask, it can also be used to relieve daily stress. This method that anyone can easily implement should be more popularized.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.3004-3010
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• 2009

The Korean pop music people enjoy today is mostly based on the pop music from foreign countries. Therefore, not only is the history very short, but also not much research is done in the Korean pop music field. Especially in terms related with the singing method, in other words the breathing and vocalization of Korean singers, it is difficult to define where it is actually situated. To add a little, it seems as if it is swarming somewhere in the middle of Korean traditional music singing methods and classical music vocalization. As pop music made its way into Korea, Korean singers had to go through many trial and errors to sing the songs of singers that had different physical conditions. Singers getting vocal nodules because of excessive vocalization, was not a surprise at that time. Yongphil Jo, a Korean singer, wanted to overcome his limits and maximize his vocal abilities. He found the answers in Korean traditional music. One of his representative songs, "The lady out the window", is one of Jo's title songs and it is the song that made a turning point in the Korean pop music vocalization. The purpose of this research is to understand the circumstances of Korean pop music through the periodical and musical background of the past and find out why the song (The lady out the window) was such an epochal vocal method at that time. Moreover, this paper covers how the breathing and vocalization is expressed by analyzing the flow, the emotional expressions, and the techniques of "The lady out the window."

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.603-608
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• 2024

Recently, the frequency of computer engineering and technology interviews has increased in the process of hiring developers, and accordingly, the burden of technical interviews among interviewees has also increased. However, during computer engineering technical interview practice, it is difficult to judge whether one's answers are correct, and to measure the appropriate vocalization speed by oneself. In this paper, we propose a computer engineering technical interview support system using similarity measurement technology. The proposed system measures the technical accuracy of the interviewee's answers through a sentence similarity evaluation procedure using cosine similarity to measure the technical accuracy of the interviewee's answers. It also measures the speech rate and provides it to the interviewee.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1995.06a
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• pp.265-271
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• 1995

한국전자통신연구소의 음성 데이터베이스 구축 현황을 기술한다. 현재 한국전자통신연구소에서는 음성인식 연구를 위해 단어음성, 정형 문장 음성 등의 데이터베이스를 구축, 보유하고 있다. 음성인식용 데이터베이스는 정해진 단어, 분장을 20명 내지 100명이 발성한 것으로, 일부는 음소 단위까지 레이블링이 되어 있다. 또 음성합성 연구를 위해 합성단위 및 운율데이타베이스를 가지고 있는데 이는 한 명 혹은 남녀 각각 3명이 발성한 것으로, 일부는 피치 등이 수록되어 있다. 문장 데이터베이스는 언어 정보처리를 위해 교재, 문학, 경제, 과학 분야의 문장을 총 480만 어절 가지고 있으며, 이 중 일부에 품사 정보를 추가하였다. 한국전자통신연구소는 국내 음성 연구의 발전에 기여하고자 음성 연구의 기반 자료가 되는 음성 데이터베이스를 국내 대학 및 산업체에 배포하고 있다 음성 데이터베이스는 음성 연구의 기반이 되는 자료임에도 불구하고 많은 비용과 노력이 들어 일반 대학에서는 쉽게 만들 수 없었다. 이에 ETRI는 한국통신이 출연한 "자동통역 요소기술개발" 과제으 LQNTKSANF인 여러 종류의 음성 데이터베이스와 관련 프로그램을 공급하여 국내 음성 연구의 기반 확립에 기여하고자 한다. 기여하고자 한다.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.32 no.11
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• pp.927-937
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• 1992

가솔린엔진유를 통한 저연비화 기술, 문제점, 대응기술 등의 동향에 관하여 기술하였다. 저연비화 기술에는 저점도화 및 마찰저감제의 첨가에 의한 방법 등이 있으나, 실제 여타 성능을 향상시 키면서 저연비화한다는 것은 매우 어려운 일이다. 우선, 고점도지수, 저휘발성을 가지는 고정제 기유 및 합성유인 PAO 등의 사용을 검토해야 하며, 여타첨가제가 연비에 미치는 영향도 충분히 고려해야만 한다. 또한, 가장 중요한 Cost의 면을 포함하여 시장의 요구를 십분 반영한 전반적인 성능 검토가 필요하다고 하겠다.

• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.797-808
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to collect the psychological responses that occur while watching TV home shopping ads in verbal form, and explore the possibility of measuring the effectiveness of TV home shopping ads using linguistic analysis. The psychological responses during watching positive and negative ads of participants(40 housewives and female college students) were collected in a linguistic form using a think aloud and self-report measurement. It was analyzed by KLIWC, a Korean language analysis program. As a result of the analysis, there was a difference in psychosocial variables as well as linguistic variables between positive and negative evaluation ads. Also, various variables of KLIWC were correlated with the variables of advertising effectiveness (purchase stimulus, ad attitude, product attitude, purchase intention) and advertising response variables. This suggests the possibility of constructing a psychological response profile and measurement of advertising effectiveness using language analysis.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.241-246
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• 2008

Purpose: To study of difference among primary aldosteronism patients and normal groups and essential hypertension patients and to confirm aldosterone/plasma renin activity ratio increase in secondary hypertension group which was diagnosed as primary aldosteronism. Materials and method: 1. Period: from April 2006 to March 2008. 2.Targets: 901 patients who visited seoul national university bundang hospital. 3. Groups: we divided by three groups. (normal group (n=147), essential hypertension (n=709), primary aldosteronism (n=45)) 4. Then calculated aldosterone/plasma renin activity ratio. 5. We used ROC curve to measure sensitivity and specificity. Results: 1. normal groups aldosterone/plasma renin activity ratio: $52.8{\pm}52.46$ essential hypertension patients aldosterone/plasma renin activity ratio: $171.04{\pm}291.56$ primary aldosteronism patients aldosterone/plasma renin activity ratio: $2325{\pm}2200$. 2. Aldosterone/renin ratio was significant in comparing each groups (p<0.001). 3. The sensitivity was 91.1% and the specificity was 92.4% when cut off of aldosterone/renin ratio was 485. Conclusion: It was confirmed that aldosterone/plasma renin activity ratio in primary aldosteronism was higher than normal group. According to this result, we can tell that aldosterone/ plasma renin activity ratio is very useful in diagnosis of primary aldosteronism.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.83-92
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• 1996

This paper describes Lombard effect compensation and noise suppression so as to reduce speech recognition error in noisy environments. Lombard effect is represented by the variation of spectral envelope of energy normalized word and the variation of overall vocal intensity. The variation of spectral envelope can be compensated by linear transformation in cepstral domain. The variation of vocal intensity is canceled by spectral magnitude normalization. Spectral subtraction is use to suppress noise contamination, and band-pass filtering is used to emphasize dynamic features. To understand Lombard effect and verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, speech data are collected in simulated noisy environments. Recognition experiments were conducted with contamination by noise from automobile cabins, an exhibition hall, telephone booths in down town, crowded streets, and computer rooms. From the experiments, the effectiveness of the proposed method has been confirmed.