• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.56-64
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• 1995

In this paper we extracted control rules of synthetical pauses and syllable durations depending on pronunciation speed in Korean speech from the spoken sentences recorded by 18 professional announcers. Pause rules were divided into three categories : pause between sentences(PBS), pause between clauses(PBC) and pause between intonational phrases(PBI). From the analysis results it is found that comparing the slowly spoken sentence with the fast spoken sentence the duration difference between them is due to the synthetical pause increments, expecially, of PBS and PBC. In addition, it is also found that the increment ratio of the mean syllable duration Is low. On the other hand, PBI was not pronounced in the fast spoken sentences. PBI was pronounced at the pronunciation speed(PS) over some PS.

• 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.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.39-54
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• 2022

This study aims to clarify the prosodic differences in speech types by examining the Korean read speech and spontaneous speech in the Korean part of the L2 Korean Speech Corpus (speech corpus for Korean as a foreign language). To this end, the articulation length, articulation speed, pause length and frequency, and the average fundamental frequency values of sentences were set as variables and analyzed via statistical methodologies (t-test, correlation analysis, and regression analysis). The results found that read speech and spontaneous speech were structurally different in the form of prosodic phrases constituting each sentence and that the prosodic elements differentiating each speech type were articulation length, pause length, and pause frequency. The statistical results show that the correlation between articulation speed and articulation length was highest in read speech, explaining that the longer a given sentence is, the faster the speaker speaks. In spontaneous speech, however, the relationship between the articulation length and the pause frequency in a sentence was high. Overall, spontaneous speech produces more pauses because short intonation phrases are continuously built to make a sentence, and as a result, the sentence gets lengthened.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.51-66
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• 2022

This study aims to help Korean English learners to learn English pronunciation by revealing which suprasegmentals affect the implementation of English sentences closer to native English speakers when they read English sentences. To this end, Korean middle school English learners were selected as subjects and research data were gathered through sentence types (declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamative), as well as syllables. Speech rate, pause frequency, pause duration, F0 range, and rhythm among suprasegmentals were used for analysis of these English sentence utterances. Mean analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis were performed. The results showed that speech rate, pause frequency, pause duration, and F0 range affected the evaluation of fluency levels. In the regression analysis between all suprasegmentals and fluency levels, the suprasegmentals that most affected fluency levels were speech rate and F0 range. Rhythm had no meaningful relation with fluency levels. Therefore, when teaching English pronunciation, it is necessary to teach students to increase their speech rate and F0 range. In addition, students should be trained to reduce both the number and the duration of pauses during utterance to improve their fluency. It is noteworthy that of the four sentence types, exclamative sentences were produced with faster speech rate, fewer pauses, shorter pause duration, and higher rhythm values.

• 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.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.43-51
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• 2023

In this paper, we propose an approach for dialect classification based on the speed and pause of speech utterances as well as the age and gender of the speakers. Dialect classification is one of the important techniques for speech analysis. For example, an accurate dialect classification model can potentially improve the performance of speaker or speech recognition. According to previous studies, research based on deep learning using Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) features has been the dominant approach. We focus on the acoustic differences between regions and conduct dialect classification based on the extracted features derived from the differences. In this paper, we propose an approach of extracting underexplored additional features, namely the speed and the pauses of speech utterances along with the metadata including the age and the gender of the speakers. Experimental results show that our proposed approach results in higher accuracy, especially with the speech rate feature, compared to the method only using the MFCC features. The accuracy improved from 91.02% to 97.02% compared to the previous method that only used MFCC features, by incorporating all the proposed features in this paper.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.75-78
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• 2000

본 논문은 자연스러운 합성음 생성을 위한 끊어 읽기 강도 예측에 관한 것으로, 문장에 대한 품사열이 주어졌을 때 Posteriori 확률을 최대화하는 끊어 읽기 강도를 비터비 디코딩으로 예측한다. 훈련용 데이터는 여성화자 1인이 발성한 2,100 문장이며, 음성 데이터로부터 휴지길이(pause)에 따라 끊어 읽기 강도를 2단계로 할당하고, 텍스트에서는 30개의 품사 태그 심볼을 이용하여 형태소분석 및 태깅을 수행하였다. 관측확률은 3개 연속하는 품사열이 발생할 확률로 하고 끊어 읽기 강도 천이확률은 bigram으로 했을 때, cross validation 방법으로 성능 평가를 수행하였다 평가결과, 훈련데이타에 대해서는 $89.7\%$, 테스트 데이터에 대해서는 $84.9\%$의 예측정확률을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the KOR-BRONCHOESO Conference
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• 1996.04a
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• pp.82-82
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• 1996

후두전적출술은 상부 소화관의 연속성을 변형시킴으로써, 식도운동의 장애를 가져올 수 있으며, 술 후에 연하곤란을 호소하는 경우는 10% 가량 된다. 본 연구의 목적은 식도내압검사를 통하여, 후두전적출술이 상부식도괄약근의 휴지기와 최대 압력에 어떠한 변화를 주는가 및 술 후 인두와 상부식도괄약근의 조화성 여부와, 만일 상부식도괄약근의 기능에 변화가 생긴다면, 그 영향이 식도체부 및 하부식도괄약근의 운동성에 어떠한 영향을 주는지를 알아보기 위함이다. 식도내압검사는 8개의 내관을 가진 폴리에틸렌 도관으로, 후두전적출술을 받은 환자군 14명과 정상인 12명을 대상으로, stational pull-through 방법으로 시행하였다. 환자군에서 상부 식도괄약근은, 휴지기 압력, 최대 수축압력, 이완정도, 괄략운동의 조화성 및 괄약근의 길이 등이, 정상 대조군 보다 의미있게 감소되었다. 환자군에 있어서 식도체부의 운동성은 주로 근위부 식도체부에서, 수축력, 수축기간 및 연동파의 전파시간이 대조군에 비하여 의미있게 감소되었고, 연동운동시 동시 수축도 3례에서 관찰되었다. 하부 식도괄약근의 기능은 환자군과 대조군이 의미있는 차이를 보이지 않았다.

• Korean Linguistics
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• v.81
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• pp.245-265
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to prepare the basis for a more objective evaluation of oral fluency by analyzing Korean native speaker's utterance. Traditionally, fluency evaluation tended to rely on the evaluators' experience and subjective idea. Therefore, there has been a need of setting the evaluation standard in numeric form that is easily measurable. In this study, I will analyze Korean native speaker's utterance in focus of pause. Total number of 875 pauses were extracted from the 21st Century Sejong Korean spoken corpus, and the elements before and after the pauses were annotated. From the analysis results, the pauses were divided between fluent pauses and influent pauses. If the length of fluent pauses do not exceed reasonable length of pause for native Korean speakers, there was no point reduction. On the other hand, if the influent pauses are made more frequently than the native Korean speakers, then it is subject to point reduction.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.281-283
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• 2007

DCF 프로토콜 상에서 성공적인 패킷 전송을 위해서는 CW 값이 최솟값이 되어야 한다. 성공적인 전송을 위해서는 CW 값이 알맞아야 한다. 이것은 충돌을 유발할 수 있으므로 CW값은 경쟁레벨과 같은 길이가 되어야 한다. Slow CW Decrease(SD)는 경쟁레벨을 유지할 수 있는 방법을 제공한다. 본 논문에서는 Idle and Collision time Ratio(ICR)을 이용한 향상된 SD 방법을 제안한다.