• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제59호
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• pp.53-68
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• 2006

We report the evaluation results of the Korean speech recognition platform called ECHOS. The platform has an object-oriented and reusable architecture so that researchers can easily evaluate their own algorithms. The platform has all intrinsic modules to build a large vocabulary speech recognizer: Noise reduction, end-point detection, feature extraction, hidden Markov model (HMM)-based acoustic modeling, cross-word modeling, n-gram language modeling, n-best search, word graph generation, and Korean-specific language processing. The platform supports both lexical search trees and finite-state networks. It performs word-dependent n-best search with bigram in the forward search stage, and rescores the lattice with trigram in the backward stage. In an 8000-word continuous speech recognition task, the platform with a lexical tree increases 40% of word errors but decreases 50% of recognition time compared to the HTK platform with flat lexicon. ECHOS reduces 40% of recognition errors through incorporation of cross-word modeling. With the number of Gaussian mixtures increasing to 16, it yields word accuracy comparable to the previous lexical tree-based platform, Julius.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.140-148
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• 1999

The use of obturator is the prosthetic rehabilitation approach for restoration of the defected maxillary shape and function for the patients with palatal defect. The obturator can change the shape of vocal tract and nasality, but few reports on the effects of the change were presented. So, the authors performed the experimental study to compare the difference between the sizes of vowel triangles produced by maxillectomized patients before and after obturator-wearing and to consider how much improvement in speech intelligibility can be expected by obturator wearing. The 8 patients who were totally maxillectomized due to palatal cancer were participated as subjects. They produced 5 vowels(/a/, /i/, /u/, /e/, /o/) before and after obturator-wearing. The formants of the vowels were analyzed by the spectrogram of CSL, and their speech intelligibility were judged by normal 8 listeners. As results, the frequency of the first and the second formant showed no significant difference between the articulation before and after wearing, but the comparison of the sizes of vowel triangles, related with the speech intelligibility, showed significant difference. The vowel triangle of the articulation after wearing was larger than that of the articulation before wearing. /i/ showed the lowest speech intelligibility score among the vowel articulation before wearing. After wearing obturators, their scores increased on the whole, especially, in /a/, but the intelligibility of /u/ decreased after wearing.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제8권9호
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• pp.1293-1298
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 음성신호를 개선할 목적으로 잡음으로 오염된 음성신호로부터 잡음성분을 제거하기 위한 위너 필터를 사용한 잡음제거 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘은 먼저 잡음 복원 및 제거 방법에 기초하여 잡음으로 오염된 신호로부터 각 프레임에서 백색잡음의 잡음 스펙트럼을 제거한다. 또한 본 알고리즘은 선형예측 분석 방법에 기초한 위너 필터를 사용하여 음성신호를 강조한다. 본 실험에서는 일본 남성화자에 의한 음성과 잡음데이터를 사용하여 본 알고리즘의 실험 결과를 나타낸다. 백색잡음에 의하여 오염된 음성신호에 대하여 스펙트럼 왜곡률 척도를 사용하여 본 알고리즘이 유효하다는 것을 확인한다. 실험으로부터 백색잡음에 대하여 이전의 위너 필터와 비교하여 최대 4.94 dB의 출력 스펙트럼 왜곡률이 개선된 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 감성과학
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.187-194
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• 2004

본 연구에서는 아로마 처치를 학교 교육현장에 적용하여, 아동들의 발표불안에 긍정적인 영향을 미쳐 불안이 감소하는가를 규명하고자 하였다. 실험 참여자는 통제집단(남 20명, 여 15명), 실험집단(남 21명, 여 14명) 총 70명이고, 제시자극은 lavender barreme, lemon, orange sweet, chamomile roman의 향을 가습기를 통하여 분사하고, 자연적으로 냄새를 맡게 하였다. 처치전, 처치 1주 후 및 2주 후에 자기보고식으로 이루어진 발표불안척도(SAS)와 교사의 평가로 이루어진 발표행동평가척도(SBES)를 통하여 발표불안을 측정하였다. 그 결과, 아로마 처치를 받은 아동들이 그렇지 않은 아동들에 비해 유의하게 발표불안이 감소하였고, 발표행동이 향상된 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of Audiology & Otology
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.180-190
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• 2020

Background and Objectives: Although many studies have evaluated the effect of the digital noise reduction (DNR) algorithm of hearing aids (HAs) on speech recognition, there are few studies on the effect of DNR on music perception. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the effect of DNR on music, in addition to speech perception, using objective and subjective measurements. Subjects and Methods: Sixteen HA users participated in this study (58.00±10.44 years; 3 males and 13 females). The objective assessment of speech and music perception was based on the Korean version of the Clinical Assessment of Music Perception test and word and sentence recognition scores. Meanwhile, for the subjective assessment, the quality rating of speech and music as well as self-reported HA benefits were evaluated. Results: There was no improvement conferred with DNR of HAs on the objective assessment tests of speech and music perception. The pitch discrimination at 262 Hz in the DNR-off condition was better than that in the unaided condition (p=0.024); however, the unaided condition and the DNR-on conditions did not differ. In the Korean music background questionnaire, responses regarding ease of communication were better in the DNR-on condition than in the DNR-off condition (p=0.029). Conclusions: Speech and music perception or sound quality did not improve with the activation of DNR. However, DNR positively influenced the listener's subjective listening comfort. The DNR-off condition in HAs may be beneficial for pitch discrimination at some frequencies.

• 대한청각학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.180-190
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• 2020

Background and Objectives: Although many studies have evaluated the effect of the digital noise reduction (DNR) algorithm of hearing aids (HAs) on speech recognition, there are few studies on the effect of DNR on music perception. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the effect of DNR on music, in addition to speech perception, using objective and subjective measurements. Subjects and Methods: Sixteen HA users participated in this study (58.00±10.44 years; 3 males and 13 females). The objective assessment of speech and music perception was based on the Korean version of the Clinical Assessment of Music Perception test and word and sentence recognition scores. Meanwhile, for the subjective assessment, the quality rating of speech and music as well as self-reported HA benefits were evaluated. Results: There was no improvement conferred with DNR of HAs on the objective assessment tests of speech and music perception. The pitch discrimination at 262 Hz in the DNR-off condition was better than that in the unaided condition (p=0.024); however, the unaided condition and the DNR-on conditions did not differ. In the Korean music background questionnaire, responses regarding ease of communication were better in the DNR-on condition than in the DNR-off condition (p=0.029). Conclusions: Speech and music perception or sound quality did not improve with the activation of DNR. However, DNR positively influenced the listener's subjective listening comfort. The DNR-off condition in HAs may be beneficial for pitch discrimination at some frequencies.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.143-151
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• 2012

A new data-driven method for the design of a blind modulation frequency filter that suppresses the slow-varying noise components is proposed. The proposed method is based on the temporal local decorrelation of the feature vector sequence, and is done on an utterance-by-utterance basis. Although the conventional modulation frequency filtering approaches the same form regardless of the task and environment conditions, the proposed method can provide an adaptive modulation frequency filter that outperforms conventional methods for each utterance. In addition, the method ultimately performs channel normalization in a feature domain with applications to log-spectral parameters. The performance was evaluated by speaker-independent isolated-word recognition experiments under additive noise environments. The proposed method achieved outstanding improvement for speech recognition in environments with significant noise and was also effective in a range of feature representations.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제23권1E호
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• pp.16-18
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• 2004

There have been numerous studies on the enhancement of the noisy speech signal. In this paper, I propose a completely new speech enhancement method, that is, a filtering of a dissonant frequency combined with noise reduction algorithm. The simulation results indicate that the proposed method provides a significant gain in audible improvement compared with the conventional method. Therefore if the proposed enhancement scheme is used as a pre-filter, the perceptual quality of speech is greatly enhanced.

• 한국언어정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국언어정보학회 2002년도 Language, Information, and Computation Proceedings of The 16th Pacific Asia Conference
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• pp.217-226
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a method of generating a proper categorization of morphemes by giving a hierarchical part-of-speech system and a corpus tagged using this part-of-speech system. Our method use hierarchical information in the part-of-speech system and statistical information in the corpus to generate a category set. The statistical information is based on the context of occurrence of categories. First, we specify the format of given information. Then, we describe an algorithm to generate a proper categorization. Finally, we present the results of our experiments in applying this method. We obtained a moderately proper categorization and found several candidates for improvement .

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제22권10호
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• pp.2339-2347
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• 1997

The performance of the adaptive noise canceller using LMS algorithm is degraded by the gradient noise due to target speech signals. An adaptive noise canceller with speech detector was proposed to reduce this performande degradation. The speech detector utilized the adaptive prediction-error filter adapted by the NLMS algorithm. This paper discusses to enhance the performance of the adaptive noise canceller forthecorlored noise. The affine projection algorithm, which is known as faster than NLMS algorithm for correlated signals, is used to adapt the adaptive filter and the adaptive prediction error filter. When the voice signals are detected by the speech detector, coefficients of adaptive filter are adapted by the sign-error afine projection algorithm which is modified to reduce the miaslignment of adaptive filter coefficients. Otherwirse, they are adapted by affine projection algorithm. To obtain better performance, the proper step size of sign-error affine projection algorithm is discussed. As resutls of computer simulation, it is shown that the performance of the proposed ANC is better than that of conventional one.