• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.179-184
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• 2011

Recently, the fast development of communication technologies has brought a great convince for human beings' life. Lots of commercial services and transactions can be done by using mobile communication equipments such as smart phones. Consequently, smart phones have attracted lots of companies to invest them for their potential growth of market. Compared with basic feature phone, a smart phone can offer more advanced computing ability and connectivity. However, based on the responses of customers, there still are many defectives such as not friendly and smooth operation, short standby time of batteries, threat of virus infected and so on needed to be improved. Therefore, this study will propose a product innovative function development procedure into TRIZ (theory of inventive problem solving) to transform voice of customers into product design and to create novel functions, respectively. A case study of smart phones will be provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.49-58
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• 1999

A new channel access function is proposed to enhance the performance of the Joint CDMA/PRMA. It is obtained in consideration of the number of terminals in reservation mode and the number of terminals in contention mode whose probability distribution is estimated by applying pseudo Bayesian approach. Simulation results show that the performance of the Joint CDMA/PRMA can be improved by applying new channel access function under voice-only traffic and mixed voice/random-data traffic.

• 음성과학
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.95-102
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• 2008

Multiple physical changes of the larynx and its components occur with age. Vocal pitch, commonly expressed through measures of fundamental frequency (Fo) relate to physical conditions of the larynx. Available data is lacking for the senescent voice, and should be applied to the of changes of elderly speakers' Fo characteristics. The purpose of this study was to investigate the Fo of normal elderly speaker's voice. A total of 406 normal elderly speakers (207 males and 199 females) participated in this experiment. Age ranged from 60 years to 89 years. The subjects were asked to produce sustained corner vowels (/a/ /i/ /u/) three times each and the data were analyzed using the MDVP of CSL. According to the results of this study, the mean Fo from the ages of 60's to 80's shows 143.95Hz(SD 13.94) for men and 185.42Hz (SD 15.29) for women. For men, a significant change is found as a function of age in the Fo (F=16.181, p<.05). A post-hoc Scheffe test revealed significant differences between the Fo data of subjects aged 60's and 70's, 60's and 80's. For women, a significant change is found as a function of age in the Fo (F=49.013, p<.05). A post-hoc $Scheff'{e}$ test revealed significant differences between the Fo data of subjects in their 60's and 70's, 70's and 80's, 60's and 80's. The Fo of men goes up from their 60's to 80's gradually, whereas the Fo of women goes down gradually until their 70's, and after their 70's it again increases. It has been known that diminishing estrogen levels in women in old age may be a factor in lowering Fo, whereas diminishing testosterone levels in men may contribute to a rising Fo. This result may be used as some meaningful guideline and lead the basic data to differentiate between normal aged voice and aged voice disorders.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.13-15
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• 2014

Presbyphonia is defined as voice change caused by aging. Since presbyphonia is one of the natural aging processes, the treatment should be considered for the patients complaining communication difficulties. The treatment should not only target on presbylaryngis, but also on underlying systemic conditions such as lung function, neurological diseases and medications. Therefore, the treatment for the patients with presbyphonia should be multidisciplinary including underlying disease control, voice therapy and surgical treatment. Although various experiments on treatment of presbylaryngis are currently being tried, repeated injection laryngoplasty is still playing an important role because presbyphonia is destined to get worse over time.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.9-17
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• 2016

The purpose of this work is to examine the voice onset times(VOTs) of the voiceless and voiced stops from the ten young male speakers of the Buckeye corpus[9]. The factors that are known to affect VOTs were also extracted, including the place of articulation, height of following vowels, location within word, presence of a preceding [s], status of the target word with respect to the content versus function word, presence of a syllabic stress, word frequency and speech rate. Findings from this work mostly agreed with those from earlier studies on English, but with some exceptions and new discoveries. We hope that this work can contribute to figuring out the nature and properties of the spontaneous speech of English.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제59권2호
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• pp.445-451
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• 2010

This paper presents a threshold adaptation based voice query transcription scheme for music information retrieval. The proposed scheme analyzes monophonic voice signal and generates its transcription for diverse music retrieval applications. For accurate transcription, we propose several advanced features including (i) Energetic Feature eXtractor (EFX) for onset, peak, and transient area detection; (ii) Modified Windowed Average Energy (MWAE) for defining multiple small but coherent windows with local threshold values as offset detector; and finally (iii) Circular Average Magnitude Difference Function (CAMDF) for accurate acquisition of fundamental frequency (F0) of each frame. In order to evaluate the performance of our proposed scheme, we implemented a prototype music transcription system called AMT2 (Automatic Music Transcriber version 2) and carried out various experiments. In the experiment, we used QBSH corpus [1], adapted in MIREX 2006 contest data set. Experimental result shows that our proposed scheme can improve the transcription performance.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37A권9호
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• pp.792-798
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• 2012

네트워크 지수가 중요한 현대 사회에서 음성을 통한 전달력 극대화로 대화 상대자로 하여금 호감도를 최대한 끌어 올리는 것이 중요한 사안이 되었다. 이때 공기 중에 포함된 습도는 음성의 전달력에 많은 영향을 미친다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 30%, 50%, 80%의 습도를 일정하게 유지한 환경에서 성대에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위한 음성신호 분석 기술을 적용한 실험을 수행하여 습도가 음성의 전달력에 미치는 영향을 정량적으로 규명해 보고자 한다. 이를 위해 20대 남성 20명을 대상으로 30%, 50%, 80% 습도 환경을 유지하고 있는 공간에서 1시간동안 노출된 상태에서 음성을 수집하고 성대 진동 변화 및 음성 에너지 크기를 측정한 실험을 수행하였다. 최종적으로 습도 변화에 따른 성대 기능의 특징 요소를 측정하고 통계 분석을 통해 추출된 실험 결과가 통계적 유의성을 갖는지에 대해 분석해 보고자 한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37권5A호
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• pp.388-394
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 음성신호처리 기술을 적용하여 음식물이 인체 장기에 미치는 영향에 대해 분석하는 방법을 제안한다. 그 간 음식물이 장기에 미치는 영향에 대한 연구는 그 음식물에 A라는 성분이 있음으로 이것이 B장기에 좋은 영향을 미칠 수 있다는 연구가 주를 이루어왔다. 그러나 그 음식물을 섭취했을 때 그것이 실제 인체 장기에 어느 정도 영향을 미치는지에 대한 수치화, 정량화된 연구는 전무한 실정이었다. 이에 본 논문에서는 음식물이 인체 장기에 미치는 영향을 수치화된 자료로 규명하고 이를 정량화하여 새로운 사실과 정보를 취득해 내는 방법에 대해 제안한다. 특히 본 논문은 우리가 흔히 접하는 음식물 중 심장 기능 강화에 도움이 된다는 토마토를 대상으로 이것이 인체에 미치는 영향을 수치화, 정량화를 행하고 이를 통해 새로운 사실을 규명해 내는 방법에 대해 제안한다. 실험은 심장에 이상이 없는 20대 남성 15명을 피실험자로 선정하고 토마토 섭취 전과 섭취 5분후, 30분 후, 1시간 후의 음성 자료를 각각 수집하고 심장 상태 변화를 측정하는 음성 분석 요소를 적용하여 토마토가 심장에 미치는 영향을 수치화, 정량화 그리고 이를 통한 새로운 사실을 규명한다.

• 음성과학
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.133-140
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• 2002

The purpose of this study was to investigate any changes in acoustic qualities of voice as ,a function of nasalance, in order to determine the relationship between vocal quality and nasalance. Twenty normal subjects (10 males and 10 females) vocalized /a/, /$\tilde{a}$/, and /a $\eta$/. The changes in nasalance and acoustic characteristics of the voice were analyzed by Nasometer (Model 6200-3, Kay Elemetrics, co) and Dr, Speech 4.0 (Tiger Electronics, Co), respectively. One-way ANOVA was used to examine any changes in jitter, shimmer, harmonics-to-noise ratio, and normalized noise energy relative to the nasalance in 3 types of vocalization. The Person r correlation coefficient was used to identify the relationship between the nasalance and the vocal quality. There was no statistically significant changes in jitter, shimmer, HNR and NNE. The jitter, however, tended to increase as the nasalance socre increased, compared to the other vocal parameters. In addition, the NNE showed an increase on / $\tilde{a}$/, and /a $\eta$/, more on the /a $\eta$/. Thus, it was speculated that NNE could be used to identify or screen resonant disorders with hypernasality

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.99-103
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• 2012

Spasmodic dysphonia is a chronic, focal, movement-induced, action-specific dystonia of the laryngeal musculature during speech. It can have a profound effect on quality of life, severely limiting people's communication, especially via telephone and in noisy backgrounds. Spasmodic dysphonia (SD) is usually of the adductor type characterized by glottic contractions causing tightness and voice breaks with forced-strangled voice, but it may also be abductor type or, much less commonly, mixed. Treatment options for adductor spasmodic dysphonia (ADSD) include voice therapy, surgical procedures, and botulinum toxin injections (Botox). The use of Botox injected into the laryngeal muscles remains the "gold standard" treatment for reducing the vocal symptoms of ADSD and Botox induces a temporary paresis of the laryngeal muscles and provides short-term relief of symptoms. Repeated injections of the laryngeal muscles, generally every 3-4 months, are required for continuous relief of symptoms. Improvement in vocal function has been reported after use of Botox injections, though a completely normal voice is rarely achieved. In this hospital, 1,030 patients have been enrolled for Botox injection therapy so far (May, 2012). In this review article, I'd like to present my personal experience of management of spasmodic dysphonia mainly by Botox injection.