• 음성과학
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.111-135
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• 2002

An annotation model of a non-native speech database has been devised, wherein English is the target language and Korean is the native language. The proposed annotation model features overt transcription of predictable linguistic information in native speech by the dictionary entry and several predefined types of error specification found in native language transfer. The proposed model is, in that sense, different from other previously explored annotation models in the literature, most of which are based on native speech. The validity of the newly proposed model is revealed in its consistent annotation of 1) salient linguistic features of English, 2) contrastive linguistic features of English and Korean, 3) actual errors reported in the literature, and 4) the newly collected data in this study. The annotation method in this model adopts the widely accepted conventions, Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) and the TOnes and Break Indices (ToBI). In the proposed annotation model, SAMPA is exclusively employed for segmental transcription and ToBI for prosodic transcription. The annotation of non-native speech is used to assess speaking ability for English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제47호
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• pp.109-120
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• 2003

This paper presents about the activities of speech database standardization in ETRI. Recently, with the support of government, ETRI and SiTEC have been gathering the large speech corpus for the domestic speech related companies. First, due to the lack of sharing the knowledge of speech database specification, the distributed speech database has a different format. Hence it seems to be needed to have the same format as soon as possible. ETRI and SiTEC are trying to find the better representation format of speech database. Second, we introduce a new description method of the annotation information of speech database. As one of the structured description method, XML based description will be applied to represent the metadata of the speech database. It will be continuously revised through the speech technology standard forum during this year.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2003년도 10월 학술대회지
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• pp.61-64
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• 2003

In this paper, we introduce a new description method of annotation information of speech database. As one of structured description methods, XML based description which has been standardized by W3C will be applied to represent metadata of speech database. It will be continuously revised through the speech technology standard forum during this year

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2002년도 11월 학술대회지
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• pp.27-32
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• 2002

In this paper it is discussed what should be taken into consideration with respect to segmentation and labeling in creation of speech corpus. What levels of annotation and what kind of contents should be included, what kind of acoustic information is checked for in segmentation, etc are discussed.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제55권
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• pp.77-91
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose an XML based meta-data specification for industrial speech databases. Building speech databases is very time-consuming and expensive. Recently, by the government supports, huge amount of speech corpus has been collected as speech databases. However, the formats and meta-data for speech databases are different depending on the constructing institutions. In order to advance the reusability and portability of speech databases, a standard representation scheme should be adopted by all speech database construction institutions. ETRI proposed a XML based annotation scheme [51 for speech databases, but the scheme has too simple and flat modeling structure, and may cause duplicated information. In order to overcome such disadvantages in this previous scheme, we first define the speech database more formally and then identify object appearing in speech databases. We then design the data model for speech databases in an object-oriented way. Based on the designed data model, we develop the meta-data specification for industrial speech databases.

• 한국언어정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국언어정보학회 2007년도 정기학술대회
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• pp.405-414
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• 2007

This paper describes a preliminary work on prosody modeling aspect of a text-to-speech system for Thai. Specifically, the model is designed to predict symbolic markers from text (i.e., prosodic phrase boundaries, accent, and intonation boundaries), and then using these markers to generate pitch, intensity, and durational patterns for the synthesis module of the system. In this paper, a novel method for annotating the prosodic structure of Thai sentences based on dependency representation of syntax is presented. The goal of the annotation process is to predict from text the rhythm of the input sentence when spoken according to its intended meaning. The encoding of the prosodic structure is established by minimizing speech disrhythmy while maintaining the congruency with syntax. That is, each word in the sentence is assigned a prosodic feature called strength dynamic which is based on the dependency representation of syntax. The strength dynamics assigned are then used to obtain rhythmic groupings in terms of a phonological unit called foot. Finally, the foot structure is used to predict the durational pattern of the input sentence. The aforementioned process has been tested on a set of ambiguous sentences, which represents various structural ambiguities involving five types of compounds in Thai.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.227-235
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• 2013

품사 부착 말뭉치의 품질은 품사 부착기를 개발하는데 있어서 매우 중요한 역할을 수행한다. 그러나 세종 말뭉치를 비롯하여 한국에서 구축된 많은 품사 부착 말뭉치들은 여전히 다양한 형태의 오류를 포함하고 있다. 이런 오류들을 살펴보면 품사 부착 오류는 물론이고 철자 오류, 문자의 삽입 및 삭제 등 매우 다양하다. 본 논문에서는 오류 패턴을 이용하여 품사 부착 오류를 검출하고 이를 효과적으로 수정하는 도구를 개발한다. 제안된 방법과 도구를 이용해서 오류를 수정할 경우 평균 9배 이상 빠르게 오류를 수정할 수 있어서 이 방법이 매우 효과적인 방법임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.271-287
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• 2013

The rapid growth and dissemination of touch-based mobile devices such as smart phones and tablet PCs, gives numerous benefits to people using a variety of multimedia contents. Due to its portability, it enables users to watch a soccer game, search video from YouTube, and sometimes tag on contents on the road. However, the limited screen size of mobile devices and touch-based character input methods based on this, are still major problems of searching and tagging multimedia contents. In this paper, we propose WalkieTagging, which provides a much more intuitive way than that of previous one. Just like any other previous video tagging services, WalkieTagging, as a voice-based annotation service, supports inserting detailed annotation data including start time, duration, tags, with little effort of users. To evaluate our methods, we developed the Android-based WalkieTagging application and performed user study via a two-week. Through our experiments by a total of 46 people, we observed that experiment participator think our system is more convenient and useful than that of touch-based one. Consequently, we found out that voice-based annotation methods can provide users with much convenience and satisfaction than that of touch-based methods in the mobile environments.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.81-90
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• 2020

본 논문은 응급의료 환경에서 음성인식 성능을 향상시키기 위하여 실제 환경에서 데이터 수집 방법을 정의하고 정의된 환경에서 수집된 데이터를 전사하는 방법을 제안한다. 그리고 제안된 방법으로 수집되고 전사된 데이터를 이용하여 기본 음성인식 실험을 진행함으로써 제안한 수집 및 전사 방법을 평가하고 향후 연구 방향을 제시하고자 한다. 모든 음성은 기본적으로 16비트 해상도와 16 kHz 샘플링으로 저장되었다. 수집된 데이터는 총 166건의 대화로서 8시간 35분의 분량이다. 수집된 데이터는 Praat를 이용하여 철자 전사, 음소 전사, 방언 전사, 잡음 전사, 그리고 의료 코드 전사를 수행하여 다양한 정보를 포함한 텍스트 데이터를 구축하였다. 이와 같이 수집된 데이터를 이용하여 기본 베이스라인 실험을 통하여 응급의료 영역에서의 음성인식 문제를 실제로 확인할 수 있었다. 본 논문에서 제시한 데이터는 응급의료 영역의 1단계 데이터로서 향후 의료 영역에서의 음성인식 모델의 학습 데이터로 활용되고, 나아가 이 분야의 음성기반 시스템 개발에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2011

Previous laboratory studies have shown that prosodic structures are encoded in the modulations of phonetic patterns of speech including suprasegmental as well as segmental features. Drawing on a prosodically annotated large-scale speech data from the Buckeye corpus of conversational speech of American English, the current study first evaluated the reliability of prosody annotation by a large number of ordinary listeners and later examined whether and how prosodic prominence influences the phonetic realization of multiple acoustic parameters in everyday conversational speech. The results showed that all the measures of acoustic parameters including pitch, loudness, duration, and spectral balance are increased when heard as prominent. These findings suggest that prosodic prominence enhances the phonetic characteristics of the acoustic parameters. The results also showed that the degree of phonetic enhancement vary depending on the types of the acoustic parameters. With respect to the formant structure, the findings from the present study more consistently support Sonority Expansion Hypothesis than Hyperarticulation Hypothesis, showing that the lexically stressed vowels are hyperarticulated only when hyperarticulation does not interfere with sonority expansion. Taken all into account, the present study showed that prosodic prominence modulates the phonetic realization of the acoustic parameters to the direction of the phonetic strengthening in everyday conversational speech and ordinary listeners are attentive to such phonetic variation associated with prosody in speech perception. However, the present study also showed that in everyday conversational speech there is no single dominant acoustic measure signaling prosodic prominence and listeners must attend to such small acoustic variation or integrate acoustic information from multiple acoustic parameters in prosody perception.