• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.91-97
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• 2024

The aim of this study was to develop and validate the Acoustic Voice Tremor index (AVTI) for the acoustic measurement of voice tremor. A total of 71 normal adults and 41 patients with voice tremor participated in the study. Vowels /a/ were recorded for at least five seconds. Three seconds of vowel stable duration were edited to identify measures of 18 variables related to voice tremor using a Praat script. These variables and the overall severity (OS) of auditory-perceptual assessment were used to design the AVTI using linear regression analysis. The linear regression analysis identified four out of the 18 variables as significant, and a regression equation was constructed. Furthermore, internal and external validity studies demonstrated high correlations, with an average of over 0.8. The AVTI demonstrated a high correlation of 0.841 with OS. The AVTI was found to be capable of predicting voice tremor. Further studies should include a larger number of voice samples and a complementary Praat script for further analysis.

• MALSORI
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• no.49
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• pp.77-94
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• 2004

In this paper, new voice message system supporting massive outbound call is proposed. Basic idea of the proposed system is to pre-process all the text-to-speech conversion process, mixing of text and attached music file and to store the results of pre-process in the cache server which is connected to the IVR. New voice message system is optimized for the voice message system supporting massive outbound call by distributing the load of the web server caused by server-side script implementation which is accessing database and generating dynamic Voice XML document over client module and server module of web server. The proposed voice message system was test-deployed in one domestic voice message application service provider and it is shown that proposed voice message system reduced the response latency problem of test-bed voice message system.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.976-985
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• 2011

The purpose of this research is to investigate the usage of voice scripting for speech characterization. The ultimate goal of acting is for an actor to create one's character both in physical and vocal sense, and to present them on stage. Toward this goal, actors train themselves with various methods and techniques as well as character analysis. Most of their efforts are put into for better physical and vocal expression. The vocal characterization on stage is heavily governed by the proper speech based on the effective respiration and voice. This paper provides the way of how to use sound scoring for effective vocal characterization on stage.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.862-865
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• 2002

VoIP was simply used to transfer voice call between IP host. VoIP provides efficiently end-to-end voice communication, however it needs to supply value-added services to users. This raper describes design of SIP communication for registering CPL.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.131-138
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• 2016

This study analyzes the characteristics of good impression using speech manipulation scripts and investigates the characteristics of preferred speech voice. Fourty male and female college students participated in this study. They have been exposed to the Gyeongsang dialect spoken by their friends and family for more than 15 years. Two sample voices(1 male and 1 female), considered as giving good impression, were subject to voice analysis. Two students were asked to read the sample paragraph of 'Walking' and their voice samples were analyzed through Praat. The collected speech data were manipulated into 4 different sets by changing pitch level, degree of loudness and speech rate. First, both men and women received good impression more from pitch-lowered sound than from the original one. Second, men tended to receive good impression more from slightly louder voice than from the natural-pitched one. Third, it was shown that men often felt more drowned to a voice at slightly faster speech rate than at the original speech rate. Overall, both male and female listeners favored lower pitch over the original pitch. Men tended to prefer louder voice sound while women preferred less loud one. Men received better impression at a lower speech rate but women at a faster speech rate.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.10C no.4
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• pp.501-508
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• 2003

VoIP that conveys voice in internet is getting into the spotlight as means to alternate existing PSTN in corporation as well as users. Current VoIP is furnishing voice efficiently, but it needs to support various services for VoIP acceleration. IETF is developing CPL standard which is call processing language for supporting various services. User has to store script to specific server for the use of CPL, therefore it is required client to support CPL. This paper describes about design and implementation of SP-based CPL client for various services. The CPL client was implemented using LINUX 2.4.x, C, and GTK1.2.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Laryngology, Phoniatrics and Logopedics
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.106-111
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• 2017

Background and Objectives : The purpose of this study was to investigate the criterion-related concurrent validity of two standardized auditory-perceptual assessments and the Acoustic Voice Quality Index (AVQI) for measuring dysphonia severity in patients with vocal cord paralysis (VCP). Materials and Methods : Total 210 patients with VCP and 236 normal voice subjects were asked to sustain the vowel [a:] and to read aloud the Korean text "Walk". A 2 second mid-vowel portion of the sustained vowel and two sentences (with 26 syllables) were recorded. And then voice samples were edited, concatenated, and analyzed according to Praat script. Two standardized auditory-perceptual assessment (GRBAS and CAPE-V) were performed by three raters. Results : The VCP group showed higher AVQI, Grade (G) and Overall Severity (OS) values than normal voice group. And the correlation among AVQI, G, and OS ranged from 0.904 to 0.926. In ROC curve analysis, cutoff values of AVQI, G, and OS were <3.79, <0.00, and <30.00, respectively, and the AUC of each analysis was over .89. Conclusion : AVQI and auditory evaluation can improve the early screening ability of VCP voice and help to establish effective diagnosis and treatment plan for VCP-related dysphonia.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.19-21
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• 2020

해가 갈수록 여러 요인들로 인하여 장애인 인구는 증가하고 있다. 하지만 이러한 장애인들을 위한 주변기기의 발전은 미흡한 상황이며 더욱이 장애인들의 여가를 위한 놀이문화, 기술들은 더욱 발전이 더딘 상태이다. 여가 활동은 장애인의 행복에도 직관적인 영향을 끼치는 중요한 부분이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 장애인들 중 손과 같은 신체를 움직이기 어려운 중증 지체장애인을 위한 오목 플랫폼을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 구현한 오목 플랫폼은 음성인식을 기반으로 사용자가 오목알을 착수하고 싶은 좌표를 음성으로 입력시키면 Dobot 즉 로봇암을 통하여 착수점에 오목알을 착수한다. 실험에선 Google Vocie To Text API를 Python 환경에서 사용하여 사용자의 음성입력을 받았으며 Dobot Studio의 Script에서 입력된 음성 값을 오목판에 1대1로 맵핑시켜 정확한 위치에 착수할 수 있도록 구현하였다. 본 논문의 연구 결과를 응용하면 오목에만 국한되는게 아닌 다양한 보드게임을 구현할 수 있다.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.1135-1142
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose IoT based smart CCTV security service to prevent crime in blind spot and prevent unexpected fire or danger. In the proposed method, a RC (Radio Control) car is made using Raspberry pie, and a camera and various modules are installed in an RC car. It was then implemented using Raspbian O / S, Apache Web Server, Shell script, Python, PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript. The RC car provides a security service that informs the manager of the situation by judging the risk of the scene with modules such as video, voice and temperature. Experimental results show that the transmission time of video and audio information is less than 0.1 second. In addition, real-time status transmission was possible in AVG, emergency, and manual mode. It is expected that the proposed method will be applied to the development of smart city by applying it to unmanned vehicles, drones and the like.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.34-41
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• 2007

The presence service which provides user's presence information by subscription and notification is one of SIP(session initiation protocol) extension services, and it is used importantly in VoIP(Voice over IP) and Instant Messaging service. In this paper, we propose a new method in which users can combine and control presence service and call processing services in various ways by extending call processing language, and only changed parts of the presence information are published instead of full presence information document. Each user registers full presence information document with his own call processing script during the first publication to a presence server. The presence server executes these call processing scripts, so it can provide various services with combination of presence service and call processing services during the presence subscriptions and notifications. Afterwards, users publish only changed parts of the presence information and the presence server notify only these changed parts to watchers. Therefore the efficiency of the overall system can be improved. The performance of our proposed model is evaluated by experiments.