• Journal of Music and Human Behavior
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.1-18
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to compare the vocal characteristics of 40 adults with and without cerebral palsy (CP), upon presentation of three speech tasks (i.e., reading, chanting, and singing). The Praat program was utilized to generate data on fundamental frequency, voice intensity, jitter, and shimmer. The results of the analysis revealed no significant differences on fundamental frequency and intensity. However, both groups showed significant decreases in jitter and shimmer when engaged in singing tasks. The analysis of group differences indicated that adults with CP showed significantly higher variation scores on jitter and shimmer than the group without CP, and the difference on jitter and shimmer became greater during rhythmic chanting. In terms of jitter variation, the interaction effects according to the groups and types of speech tasks were greater, demonstrating the differences between the two groups. This study can be utilized as a basic research, regarding changes in vocal characteristics of adults with CP according to different musical speech tasks.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.33-44
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• 2019

This paper dealt with how realization of pauses in utterance is affected by speech style, gender, and generation. For this purpose, we analyzed the frequency and duration of pauses. Pauses were categorized into four types: pause with breath, pause with no breath, utterance medial pause, and utterance final pause. Forty-eight subjects living in Seoul were chosen from the Korean Standard Speech Database. All subjects engaged in reading and spontaneous speech, through which we could also compare the realization between the two speech styles. The results showed that utterance final pauses had longer durations than utterance medial pauses. It means that utterance final pause has a function that signals the end of an utterance to the audience. For difference between tasks, spontaneous speech had longer and more frequent pauses because of cognitive reasons. With regard to gender variables, women produced shorter and less frequent pauses. For male speakers, the duration of pauses with breath was significantly longer. Finally, for generation variable, older speakers produced more frequent pauses. In addition, the results showed several interaction effects. Male speakers produced longer pauses, but this gender effect was more prominent at the utterance final position.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.620-631
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• 2021

The study aim to test the effect of voice agent's preceding utterance type on the user experience in the smart home contexts by conversation types. Based on two types of conversation (task-oriented vs. relationship-oriented conversations) and two types of utterance (preceding vs. response utterances), four different scenarios were designed for experimental study. A total of 62 participants were divided into two groups by utterance type, and exposed to two scenarios of the conversation types. Likeability, psychological reactance, and perceived intelligence were measured for the user experience of conversational agent. The result showed main effects of likeability in task-oriented conversations, and of psychological reactance in preceding utterances. The interaction effect demonstrated that preceding conversation improved the likeabilitty and perceived intelligence in the task-oriented conversations.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.19-31
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to observe the realization of pause and breath groups from adult speakers and to examine how gender, generation, and tasks can affect this realization. For this purpose, we analyzed forty-eight male or female speakers. Their generation was divided into two groups: young, old. Task and gender affected both the realization of pause and breath groups. The length of the pause groups was longer in the read speech than in the spontaneous speech and female speech. On the other hand, the length of the breath group was longer in the spontaneous speech and the male speech. In the spontaneous speech, which requires planning, the speaker produced shorter length of pause group. The short sentence length of the reading material influenced the reason for which the length of the breath group was shorter in the reading speech. Gender difference resulted from difference in pause patterns between genders. In the case of the breath groups, the male speaker produced longer duration of pause than the female speaker did, which may be due to difference in lung capacity between genders. On the other hand, generation did not affect either the pause groups or the breath groups. The generation factor only influenced the number of syllables and the eojeols, which can be interpreted as the result of the difference in speech rate between generations.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2020.10a
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• pp.369-374
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• 2020

동시통역은 원천텍스트의 의미를 잘 전달하는 것 뿐만 아니라, 순차통역이나 번역과 달리, 지연 시간없이 즉각적으로 번역하는 것이 매우 중요하다. 따라서 적절한 길이의 지점에서 원천텍스트를 분절해야 한다. 그러나 발화자마다 발화 속도가 서로 다르며, 이 발화 속도는 전체 발화에서 늘 일정하지 않기 때문에, 분절단위의 적절한 길이를 설정하는 것은 상당히 어려운 과제이다. 본 연구에서는 발화자마다 발화 속도가 다른 상황과 발화가 진행되는 동안 실시간으로 발화 속도가 변화하는 상황에 적응 가능한 동시통역 분절 방법론(개인화 기법)을 제안한다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 먼저 동시통역 데이터를 이용하여 기준 발화 속도를 설정하였다. 그 다음 이를 원천 발화의 현재 속도와 비교하여 실시간으로 해당 발화자에게 있어 최적의 분절길이가 얼마인지 계산한다. 제안한 개인화 기법의 효력을 검증하기 위해 실험을 진행하였고, 그 결과 개인화를 적용하면 분절 성능이 높아졌다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1996.10a
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• pp.128-141
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• 1996

한국어-영어 이중언어자와 비이중언어자인 한국 대학생들을 대상으로 두 언어 처리의 독립성과 영어 처리의 사고 억제 과정을 알아보기 위해서 두 개의 산출실험을 실시하였다. 실험 1에서는 한국어와 영어로 산출 과제를 준 후에 한국어, 영어 단어에 대한 어휘 판단 과제를 하였다. 이중언어자는 한국어-영어 처리 체계가 분리되어 있어서 산출 언어와 목표 단어의 언어가 바뀐 경우에 단어 판단시간이 더 길 것으로 예상하였으나 유의미한 결과는 나오지 않았다. 비이중언어자는 영어 산출 후에 한국어, 영어 단어에 대한 판단 시간이 모두 느려졌으며 이것은 영어 산출에 많은 심적 자원을 소모하였기 때문이라고 해석하였다. 실험2에서는 영어로만 1분간 산출 과제를 주고 20초씩 나눈 세 구간에서 발화된 단어 수를 측정하였다. 이중언어자는 세 번째 구간에서 유의미하게 발화된 단어수가 감소하였지만 비이중언어자는 세 구간에서 발화된 단어수가 비슷하였다. 이것을 영어 산출시의 처리 부담과 관련하여 논하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.298-303
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• 2023

This study aimed to investigate the clinical utility of voiced sentence tasks for voice evaluation. To this end, we analyzed the correlation between perturbation-based acoustic measurements [jitter percent (jitter), shimmer percent (shimmer), Noise to Harmonic Ratio (NHR)] using sustained vowel phonation, and cepstrum-based acoustic measurements [Cepstral Peak Prominence (CPP), Low/High spectral ratio (L/H ratio)] using voiced sentences. As a result of analyzing data collected from 65 patients with voice disorders, there was a significant correlation between the CPP and jitter (r = -.624, p = .000), shimmer (r = -.530, p = .000), NHR (r = -.469, p = .000).This suggests that the cepstrum measurement of voiced sentences can be used as an alternative to the analysis limitations of the pathological voice such as not possible perturbation-based acoustic measurement, and result difference according to the analysis section.

• 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.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.565-576
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• 2022

The scope and functions of a conversational agent are gradually expanding. In particular, research and technology development is being conducted on a conversational agent that can speak first without user calls. However, still in its early stages, there is a lack of research on how a preceded utterance conversational agent will affect users. Accordingly, this study conducted a 2×3 mixed design using the user's task performance condition and the agent's self-exposure as independent variables and measured Intimacy, Functional Satisfaction, Psychological Reactance, and Workload as dependent variables to identify the effects of preceded utterance conversational agent on user experience.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.43-56
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to analyze the differences of preschoolers' utterance features by their gender and play situation type. For this purpose, a total of 40 5-year-old children participated in this study. Dyad were participated in each play session during 10 minutes. The play session was videotaped and the videotaped data were transcribed by CBS(2014). The collected data were analyzed by using a independent t-test and paired t-test. The main results are as follows. First, girls' MLU-e, MLU-w, MLU-m were longer than that of boys in a familiar play situation. Second, preschoolers' MLU-w was longer in an unfamiliar play situation than in familiar ones and preschoolers' type-token ratio were higher in an unfamiliar play situation than in familiar ones. Implications for the importance of preschoolers' spontaneous speech are discussed.