• Proceedings of the KSLP Conference
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• 2002.06a
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• pp.201-201
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• 2002

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.1C
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• pp.130-137
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• 2010

An uplink indoor positioning system is proposed in the present work, where the acoustic signals are solely used for positioning. The underlying acoustic signals include whistle, finger snap, and hands-clapping. In the proposed method, positioning is achieved by finding the time-difference-of-arrivals using several self-generating sounds. To evaluate the feasibility of the signals and their positioning accuracies, the database of 100 persons about self-generating acoustic signals is built up. The results show that the hands-clapping sound is the most suitable for acoustic-based indoor positioning.

• Proceedings of the KSLP Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.215-218
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• 2003

발성치료는 약400여년간 내려오고 있는 성악발성법 (벨칸토 발성)을 이용하여 음성을 교정하고 치료하는 방법으로 과학적이고 의학적으로 인정된 방법을 통하여 음성을 교육하고 교정하는 약물적이고 비 수술적인 치료 방법이다. 음성크리닉검사 1) 공기역학검사(Phonatory function analyzer test) 2) 최대발성지속시간(Maximum phonation time) 3) 컴퓨터 음성검사(Dotor speech. MDVP) 4) 듣기평가 5) 내시경검사(Stroboscopy) 6) 전기성문파형검사(EGG) 7) 호흡근력검사. (MIP. MEP. 등)및 호흡검사(FVC. FEVI. PF. 등) 8) 음성전문의사의 확진 후 발성치료권유 (중략)

• Journal of the Korean Society of Laryngology, Phoniatrics and Logopedics
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.88-93
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• 2003

Whether respiratory muscle training is of benefit to the singing students is controversial. The purpose of the study is to investigate pulmonary function and the maximal inspiratory(MIP) and expiratory pressure(MET), and maximum phonation time in five female singing students before and after the specially programmed respiratory muscle training during 2 months. All singing students had average 4.8 years of formal classical voice training. Respiratory muscle training machine (Ultrabreath) was used to train respiratory muscle. Pulmonary function test data on simple pulmonary function, flow volume curve, static lung volumes are obtained from Vmax 6200. The MIP and MEP were measured using Spirovis, and the MPT were measured using hand-held stopwatch. Any pulmonary function test variables are not changed after respiratory muscle training. However, MIP and MEP were significantly increased between before and after respiratory muscle training. MPT increased significantly after training, compared to the pre-trained. MIP, MEP, and MPT after training in female singing students were 26%, 25% and 33% higher than those before training. The result indicated that the specially programmed respiratory muscle training is beneficial to improve respiratory muscle strength and vocal function without an increment in pulmonary function.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.31-40
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• 2023

Tube phonation in water has been widely used for voice training among semi-occluded vocal tract (SOVT) exercises in which the patient bubbles with phonation keeping the tube submerged in water. This study aims to investigate the effect of tube diameter and water depth on bubble height and maximum phonation time (MPT) for patients with hyperfunctional voice disorders. Seventeen patients with hyperfunctional voice disorders were asked to bubble with sustained /u/ at the different inner diameters of tube (5, 7, and 10 mm), water depth (4, 7, and 10 cm). A water resistance phonation biofeedback system using a water height sensor was used for recording bubble height and MPT. The bubble height was significantly changed by the tube diameter while MPT was significantly changed with the tube diameter and water depth. Although the wider tube presented significantly lower bubble height for a given depth, relatively consistent bubble height was maintained. Depending on the water depth, the bubble height did not significantly differ for a given tube diameter. In addtion, MPT significantly decreased with water depth and a wider tube led significantly shorter MPT. A water level-driven water resistance biofeedback system provided useful information on bubble characteristics and vocal fold vibration depending on tube diameter and water depth. It can be useful to monitor the breath support during water resistance phonation for patients with hyperfunctional voice disorders.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Laryngology, Phoniatrics and Logopedics
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.117-123
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• 2002

MIP was significantly increased in singers, compared to the untrained group. MIP in patients showed decreasing tendency compared to the untrained group, but were significantly lower than that in singers. MEP in singers was higher than that in the untrained group. MPT increased significantly in singers, but diminished in patients compared to the untrained group. MIP, MEP, and MPT in male singers were 50.8%, 61.0%, and 28.7 % higher than those in female singers. MIP, MEP, and MPT in the untrained male were more increased 32.3%, 25.0%, and 28.7%, respectively than those in the untrained female. There was no correlation between MPT and MIP or MEP. Regression analysis of the data set showed that weight and vocal cord dysfunction was a positive predictor of MPT. Factors affecting MIP were male, singers and weight. Factors affecting MEP were male, singers, vocal cord dysfunction and weight.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Laryngology, Phoniatrics and Logopedics
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.5-11
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• 1999

Background and Objectives : Recently, many people suffering from voice change visit otolaryngologist. So, it is important to study vocal function in patients with glottic or laryngeal disease. Aerodynamic investigation is valuable information about the efficiency of the larynx in translating air pressure to acoustic signal. The purpose of this study was to investigate the aerodynamic data in patients with vocal polyp, compare this data with that of the normal Korean. Materials and Methods : In aerodynamic study, maximum phonation time, mean air flow rate, phonatory flow volume and subglottal pressure were tested by using Aerophone II voice function analyzer in 157 normal korean and 143 patients with vocal polyp, aged from 20 to 69 years randomly selected. Results and Conclusion : In vocal polyp, maximum phonation time was significantly decreased and mean air How rate was increased. Phonatory flow volume was significantly decreased and subglottic pressure was increased only in female with vocal polyp. These data will be served as basic data of evaluation after treatment and postoperative assessment of the patients with vocal polyp.

• Proceedings of the KOR-BRONCHOESO Conference
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• 1979.05a
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• pp.8.3-8
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• 1979

Dohne (1944) has studied the consumption of air during phonation in patients with dysphonia and Arnold (1955, 1958) reported that the maximum phonation time is frequently reduced to a few seconds in paralytic dysphonia. Also, Nishikawa investigated the relation among the vital capacity, maxium phonation time, caculated mean flow rate and various vocal characteristics in patients with hoarseness. Authors have studied the aerodynamic characteristics of the vocal tract in the following aspects, using 9 L. Respirometer made in Collins Inc.; 1. Maximum phonation time 2. Maximum phonation volume 3. Mean flow rate 4. Vocal velocity index

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.88-95
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• 2006

In this Paper. a method for improving the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) system for conversational speech is proposed. which mainly focuses on increasing the robustness against the rapidly speaking utterances. The proposed method doesn't require an additional speech recognition task to represent speaking rate quantitatively. Energy distribution for special bands is employed to detect the vowel regions, the number of vowels Per unit second is then computed as speaking rate. To improve the Performance for fast speech. in the pervious methods. a sequence of the feature vectors is expanded by a given scaling factor, which is computed by a ratio between the standard phoneme duration and the measured one. However, in the method proposed herein. utterances are classified by their speaking rates. and the scaling factor is determined individually for each class. In this procedure, a maximum likelihood criterion is employed. By the results from the ASR experiments devised for the 10-digits mobile phone number. it is confirmed that the overall error rate was reduced by $17.8\%$ when the proposed method is employed

• Proceedings of the KSLP Conference
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• 1996.11a
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• pp.79-79
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• 1996

최근 들어 음성에 대한 일반인들의 관심이 높아지면서 음성이상을 호소하며 이비인후과 외래를 방문하는 환자가 점차적으로 증가하는 추세에 있다. 그러나 이러한 음성이상을 객관적으로 평가할 수 있는 기준이 국내에는 거의 없는 실정이다. 이에 저자들은 본 연구에서 기왕력 상 폐질환이나 신경계질환, 후두질환을 앓은 적이 없으며 음성조율 기관에 이상이 없고 정상적인 청력을 가진 10세에서 69세까지의 무작위 추출된 정상 한국인 남자 112명과 여자 122명을 대상으로 Aerophone II voice function analyzer를 이용하여 공기역동학적 검사 중 최대발성지속시간(maximum phonation time), 평균호기류율(mean airflow rate), 발성율(phonation quotient), 발성시 기류량(phonatory flow volume) 및 성문하압(subglottal pressure)의 정상 한국인의 남녀 년령별 평균치를 측정하고자 하였다. (중략)