• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제24권2E호
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• pp.71-76
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• 2005

Compared to normal speech, distant-talking speech is characterized by the acoustic effect due to interfering sound and echoes as well as articulatory changes resulting from the speaker's effort to be more intelligible. In this paper, the acoustic features for distant-talking speech due to the articulatory changes will be analyzed and compared with those of the Lombard effect. In order to examine the effect of different distances and articulatory changes, speech recognition experiments were conducted for normal speech as well as distant-talking speech at different distances using HTK. The speech data used in this study consist of 4500 distant-talking utterances and 4500 normal utterances of 90 speakers (56 males and 34 females). Acoustic features selected for the analysis were duration, formants (F1 and F2), fundamental frequency, total energy and energy distribution. The results show that the acoustic-phonetic features for distant-talking speech correspond mostly to those of Lombard speech, in that the main resulting acoustic changes between normal and distant-talking speech are the increase in vowel duration, the shift in first and second formant, the increase in fundamental frequency, the increase in total energy and the shift in energy from low frequency band to middle or high bands.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.115-122
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• 2016

This study investigates the acoustic-phonetic features and speech intelligibility of Lombard speech in children with intellectual disability, by examining the effect of Lombard speech at 3 levels of non-noise, 55dB, and 65dB. Eight children with intellectual disability read sentences and played speaking games, and their speech were analyzed in terms of intensity, pitch, vowel space of /a/, /i/, and /u/, VAI(3), articulation rate and speech intelligibility. Results showed, first, that intensity and pitch increased as noise level increased; second, that VAI(3) increased as the noise level increased; third, that articulation rate decreased as noise intensity increased; finally, that speech intelligibility increased as noise intensity increased. The Lombard speech changed the VAI(3), vowel space, articulation rate, speech intelligibility of the children with intellectual disability as well. This study suggests that the Lombard speech will be clinically useful for the persons who have intellectual disability and difficulties in self-control.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.19-27
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• 2024

본 연구는 소음 조건에 따른 롬바르드 효과가 성인과 아동의 발화에 미치는 영향을 음성음향학적 측면에서 살펴보고자 하였다. 본 연구의 대상자는 5-9세 남자 아동 12명과 24-35세 남자 성인 12명이다. 대상자는 무소음과 55 dB, 70 dB의 다화자잡음을 청취하는 조건에서, 발화 과제를 수행하였다. 이때, 대상자의 음성을 디지털레코더로 녹음하였으며, Praat 프로그램을 사용하여 음성의 기본주파수, 강도, 발화길이, 모음공간면적을 분석하였다. 성인과 아동 간에 음도, 발화길이에서 유의한 차이가 있었으나, 두 집단 간에 강도와 모음공간면적에서는 유의한 차이가 없었다. 듣기 조건에 따라 대상자의 음성 강도, 발화길이에 유의한 차이가 있어서, 무소음 조건에 비해 소음 조건에서 대상자의 음성 강도와 발화길이가 유의하게 증가하였다. 본 연구 결과를 통해, 성인과 아동은 소음이 제시되는 상황에서 본인의 음성 강도와 발화길이를 증가시키는 것을 확인하였다. 본 연구는 어린 아동도 성인과 동일하게 소음으로 인한 말명료도 저하를 개선하기 위한 음성적 노력을 기울이고 있다는 것을 확인하였다는 데 의의가 있다.

• 음성과학
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• 제6권
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• pp.197-217
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• 1999

In a noisy class, the acoustic-phonetic features of the teacher and the perceptual features of learners are changed comparison with a quiet environment. Acoustical analyses were carried out on a set of French monosyllables consisting of 17 consonants and three vowel /a, e, i/, produced by 1 male speaker talking in quiet and in 50, 60 and 70 dB SPL of masking noise on headphone. The results of the acoustic analyses showed consistent differences in energy and formant center frequency amplitude of consonants and vowels, $F_1$ frequency of vowel and duration of voiceless stops suggesting the increase of vocal effort. The perceptual experiments in which 18 undergraduate female students learning French served as the subjects, were conducted in quiet and in 50, 60 dB of masking noise. The identification scores on consonants were higher in Lombard speech than in normal speech, suggesting that the speaker's vocal effort is useful to overcome the masking effect of noise. And, with increased noise level, the perceptual response to the French consonants given had a tendency to be complex and the subjective reaction score on the noise using the vocabulary representative of 'unpleasant' sensation to be higher. And, in the point of view on the L2(second language) acquisition, the influence of L1 (first language) on L2 examined in the perceptual result supports the interference theory.