• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.29-38
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• 2022

이 연구는 국립국어원 일상 대화 음성 코퍼스(2020)에서 나타나는 발화를 분석하여 발화 속도 및 말차례 교체 빈도가 운율 단위 변화에 어떤 영향을 끼치는지 밝히는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 분석 결과, 발화 속도가 증가할수록 억양구, 어절 빈도, 발화 길이가 증가하는 양의 상관관계를 보였으나 상관관계가 낮았고, 회귀모형의 적합도는 3%-11%로 설명력이 약했다. 말차례 교체 빈도에 따른 평균 발화 속도는 유의미한 차이가 있었고, 말차례 교체 빈도가 증가할수록 발화 속도는 감소하였다. 또한 말차례 교체 빈도가 증가할수록 억양구 및 어절 빈도와 발화 길이는 감소하였으며 높은 음의 상관관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 회귀 모형의 적합도는 27%-32%로 계산되었다. 말차례 교체 빈도가 발화 속도와 운율 단위를 변화시키는 요인으로 작용했을 수 있다. 이는 대화체에서 나타나는 비유창성, 말차례 교체 특성, 화자 간 활발한 상호작용 등이 영향을 미쳤을 것이라 추측된다.

• 대한구순구개열학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2002

Some children with Cleft Palate have shown a speech disorders after repaired surgical operation. A diagnostic evaluation of speech in children with cleft palates is important in preventing speech disorders. However, standard speech evaluation form for children with cleft palates has not yet developed in Korea. The purpose of this study is to make the standard speech evaluation form for children with cleft palates. Thirty control children group and ten children with cleft palate participated in this experiment. The test words are composed of meaningless two syllabic words containing the three different types of korean stop consonants,

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.101-108
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• 2014

This study investigates the relation among pitch range differences, speech rate and realization of stress. To identify the realization of the stress, vowel formants and durational differences of stressed and unstressed vowels are measured. The Korean learners were asked to read a textbook passage which includes nine sentences. The major results indicate that: (1) Korean speakers' pitch range is less than 50% of the native speakers; (2) There is a significantly negative relation between high-low pitch range and speech rate; (3) The vowel qualities and durations of the stressed and unstressed vowels are related to the speech rate. But these are not related to the high-low pitch range.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.131-138
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• 2015

The aim of this work is to compare the vowel formants of the ten adult female speakers in their twenties and thirties from the Seoul corpus[7] with those of corresponding Korean male speakers from the same corpus and of American female speakers from the Buckeye corpus[4]. In addition, various linguistic factors that are expected affect the formant frequencies were examined to account for the distribution of the vowel formants. Formant frequencies extracted from the Seoul corpus were also compared to those from read speech. The results showed that the formant distribution of the spontaneous speech was very different from that of the read speech, while the comparison between the female and male speakers was similar in both languages. To a greater or lesser degree, the potential linguistic factors influenced the formant frequencies of the vowels.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.48-58
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• 2024

This paper presents the development of language tutoring systems for nonnative speakers by leveraging advanced end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) and proficiency evaluation. Given the frequent errors in non-native speech, high-performance spontaneous speech recognition must be applied. Our systems accurately evaluate pronunciation and speaking fluency and provide feedback on errors by relying on precise transcriptions. End-to-end ASR is implemented and enhanced by using diverse non-native speaker speech data for model training. For performance enhancement, we combine semisupervised and transfer learning techniques using labeled and unlabeled speech data. Automatic proficiency evaluation is performed by a model trained to maximize the statistical correlation between the fluency score manually determined by a human expert and a calculated fluency score. We developed an English tutoring system for Korean elementary students called EBS AI Peng-Talk and a Korean tutoring system for foreigners called KSI Korean AI Tutor. Both systems were deployed by South Korean government agencies.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1123-1126
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• 2004

Recognizing emotion in speech is required lots of spoken language corpus not only at the different emotional statues, but also in individual languages. In this paper, we focused on the changes speech signals in different emotions. We compared the features of speech information like formant and pitch according to the 4 emotions (normal, happiness, sadness, anger). In Korean, pitch data on monophthongs changed in each emotion. Therefore we suggested the suitable analysis techniques using these features to recognize emotions in Korean.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제48호
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• pp.141-153
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• 2003

Researches into robust recognition in noise environments, especially in car environments, are being carried out actively in speech community. In this paper we will report on three types of corpora that SiTEC (Speech Information TEchnology & industry promotion Center) has created for research into speech recognition in car noise environments. The first is the recordings of 900 Korean native speakers, distributed according to gender, age, and region, who uttered application words in car environments. The second is the collections of mixed noise in 3 car types by model while setting up various noise patterns which can be obtained with the car engine on or off, at different driving speed, and in different road conditions with windows open or closed. The third is the recordings of simulated speech by HATS (Head and Torso Simulator) in car environments with the internal and external noise factors added. These three types of recordings were all made through synchronized 8 channel microphones that are fixed in a car. The creation and applications of these corpora will be reported on in detail.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.47-54
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• 2023

This study attempted to test the hypothesis that Korean evaluators can score L2 speech appropriately, even when speech rate features are unavailable. Two perception experiments-preliminary and main-were conducted sequentially. The purpose of the preliminary experiment was to categorize English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) speakers into two groups-advanced learners and lower-level learners-based on the proficiency scores given by five human raters. In the main experiment, a set of stimuli was prepared such that the speech rate of all data tokens was modified to have a uniform speech rate. Ten human evaluators were asked to score the stimulus tokens on a 5-point scale. These scores were statistically analyzed to determine whether there was a significant difference in utterance production between the two groups. The results of the preliminary experiment confirm that higher-proficiency learners speak faster than lower-proficiency learners. The results of the main experiment indicate that under controlled speech-rate conditions, human raters can appropriately assess learner proficiency, probably thanks to the linguistic features that the raters considered during the evaluation process.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.48-54
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 한ㆍ영 기계번역을 위한 한국어의 품사를 분류하였고 각 품사의 형태론적 특징을 고찰하였다. 한국어 표준문법에서 제시되는 품사 분류 기준은 의미, 기능, 형태의 세 가지 기준을 적용하고 있으며, 자연언어처리에서도 같은 분류 기준을 바탕으로 하고 있다. 품사 분류에 여러 가지 기준을 적용하는 것은 문법구조 이해 및 품사 분류를 어렵게 한다. 또한 한 영 기계번역시 품사의 불일치로 전처리가 필요하다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 하나의 기준을 적용하여 품사를 분류하였다. 방법으로 한국어 표준문법에 의하여 말뭉치에 태깅하고 문제점을 찾아내며, 새로운 기준에 의하여 품사를 분류하였다. 본 논문에서 분류된 품사는 한국어 문장에서 통사적 역할이 동일하고, 영어에서의 사전 품사와 동일하며, 품사 분류의 모호성을 제거하고, 한국어의 문장 구조를 명확히 표현한다. 또한 한ㆍ영 기계번역시 패턴 매칭에 의한 목적언어 생성이 가능하게 한다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2020

The current study was designed to investigate which type of phrase boundary tones high-intermediate Korean learners of English used in their spontaneous speech. These boundary tones were compared to those used in native speakers' spontaneous speech to examine whether the learners successfully acquired the use of boundary tones. To achieve this purpose, 10 Korean learners of English and four native speakers of English participated in the current study. The participants were asked to summarize the stories of short videos, and the tonal and the phrasing patterns of the obtained spontaneous speech were analyzed using Tone and Break Indices (ToBI) transcription conventions. The results indicated that both the native speakers and the Korean learners frequently marked their intonational phrase boundaries with high boundary tones. However, regarding the prosodic phrase positions within a sentence, Korean learners frequently used steep rising tones (i.e., H-H%) while native speakers used gradual rising tones (i.e., L-H%) for sentence-final intonational phrases. Overall, the findings suggested that high-intermediate Korean learners understood the forward-looking function of the high boundary tones and that they were able to make use of these tones to mark intonational phrases in their spontaneous speech.