• 음성과학
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.109-116
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• 2006

In this paper, our study focuses on obtaining the differences of emotional speech in three different vocal tract sections. The vocal tract area was computed from the area function of the emotional speech. The total vocal tract was divided into 3 sections (vocal fold section, middle section and lip section) to acquire the differences in each vocal tract section of emotional speech. The experiment data include 6 emotional speeches from 3 males and 3 females. The 6 emotions consist of neutral, happiness, anger, sadness, fear and boredom. The measured difference is computed by the ratio through comparing each emotional speech with the normal speech. The experimental results present that there is not a remarkable difference at lip section, but the fear and sadness have a great change at the vocal fold part.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.48-52
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• 2019

Background and Objectives : Functional aphonia is characterized by incomplete closure of the vocal folds. Semi-occluded vocal tract exercise (SOVTE) allows smoothly vocal folds collision without damage to the vocal folds tissues to produce normal vocal intensity. The purpose of this study is to report the effect of SOVTE in patients with functional aphonia. Materials and Method : Seven patients diagnosed with functional aphonia were treated with 1-3 voice therapy sessions using voiced lip-trill, humming, Lax Vox in SOVTE. To assess the effectiveness of semi-occluded vocal tract exercise, cepstral analysis and auditory perceptual assessment were performed before and after voice therapy. Results : F0 (fundamental frequency), CPP (cepstral peak prominence) and L/H ratio (low/high spectral ratio) were significantly increased, while CPP Standard deviation, L/H ratio Standard deviation were decreased. In addition, 'Grade', 'Breathiness' and 'Asthenia' were significantly decreased in the GRBAS scale after SOVTE (p<0.05). Conclusion : In our study, SOVTE seemed to be effective to elicit voice quickly and promote vocal folds vibration without muscular effort in patients with functional aphonia.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2003

기존의 성도 정규화 방법은 화자 간 정규화의 정확성을 개선하기 위한 매우 좋은 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 피치 변경 발성에 기반을 둔 새로운 화자 내 warping 인수 추정 방법을 제안한다. 화자 내 피치 변경 발성은 성문과 성도에 의해 발생되는 음성의 음향학적 차이 때문에 음성의 특징 공간 분포는 다르게 나타날 것이다. 발성의 변동은 frequency 성분과 amplitude 성분의 두가지 유형이 있다. 성도 정규화는 화자 간 정규화 방법들 중에서 주파수 정규화 방법이다. 여기에서는 화자 내 정규화를 위하여 진폭 변동을 정규화하는 방법을 제안한다. 참조 피치와 입력 피치의 역비례 계산에 의해서 진폭 warping 인수를 결정하는 것이 가능하다. 성능 평가를 위한 인식 실험 결과 숫자와 단어 인식에서 0.4%∼2.3% 정도의 인식 오류가 감소되었다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.75-83
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to find clues to the risk of voice disorders in soprano students. The subjects of the study were 17 soprano students and 18 general students (women). The phonation of vowels /a/, /i/, and /u/ with C4 and F4 notes in each group were recorded. Then, only soprano students were made to record their classical vocalization containing vibrato. Formant, formant energy, bandwidth, VAI (vowel area index), VSA (vowel space area) and L/H ratio were analyzed. There was significant difference in F3 such that the singers' note was measured around 3 kHz which seems to be 400 Hz higher than one from general students. But, There was no significant difference in L/H ratio between soprano student and the general student. There was a significant difference in F3 in the comparison of the soprano students' two vocalization methods. Classical vocalization was measured at 200Hz higher than sustained phonation in F3. Vocal tract adjustment was made and vowel space changed, but there was no significant difference in F3 energy, which is the index of singers' formant according to the phonation method. The L/H ratio, which can be a direct indicator of vocal effort, has no difference in phonation method and is lowered in all phonation methods as the pitch increases. C4 and F4 pitches are lower than the singing range of the soprano. When the pitch changes, vocal effort increases like a general student which will be an indicator of the risk of vocalization. This will be a clue to the vocalization of the immature soprano student.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.53-58
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• 2023

갑상선 절제술 후 정상적인 성대 움직임을 보이는 경우의 29.7%가 주관적인 음성문제를 호소하며, 이는 의사소통과 관련된 삶의 질 저하로 이어질 수 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 신경학적 손상이 없는 갑상선 절제술 후 음성의 음도문제를 개선하기 위해 경부운동과 semi-occluded vocal tract exercise를 적용하여 고안한 음성치료법의 효과를 알아보는 것이다. 이를 위해 갑상선 절제술 후 음도문제를 보이는 여성 10명을 대상으로 무작위 배정에 의힌 음성치료를 갑상선 술 2주 후 1회 실시하였다. 술 전과 술 후, 음성치료 직후의 음성 비교하기 위해 음향학적 분석[fundamental frequency, jitter, shimmer, noise-to-harmonics ratio, min Voice Range Profile(VRP), max VRP, VRP]을 실시하였다. 연구결과, 술 전에 비해 술 후 유의한 감소를 보였던 max VRP, VRP가 음성치료 직후 유의한 증가를 보였다. 이와 같은 결과는 본 연구의 음성치료법이 갑상선 술 후 음성문제의 주요한 증상인 고음역대 주파수 저하를 개선하는데 효과적인 방법임을 시사한다. 추후에는 본 치료효과가 장기간 지속되는지에 대한 연구가 필요할 것이다.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1998년도 학술발표대회 논문집 제17권 1호
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• pp.147-150
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• 1998

In the case of speech synthesis, the waveform coding method with high quality is mainly used to the synthesis by analysis. Because the parameters of this coding method are not classified as both excitation and vocal tract parameters, it is difficult to apply the waveform coding method to the synthesis by rule. Thus, in order to apply the waveform coding method to the synthesis by rule, a pitch alteration is required for the prosody control. In the speech synthesis method by the conventional PSOLA technique, applying symmetric window function to asymmetric speech waveform, it occurs the unbalance phenomenon of energy according to the overlapped degree of pitch interval adjustment. In this paper to overcome the unbalance phenomenon of energy, we proposed a new method that can convert asymmetric waveform to symmetric one by time-frequency conversion. As a result, we can obtain an average spectrum distortion ratio with 6.38% according to the pitch alteration ratio.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제51호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2004

The aim of this paper is to analyze vowels in voice imitation and disguised voice, and to find the invariable phonetic features of the speaker. In this paper we examined the formants of monophthongs /a, u, i, o, {$\omega},{\;}{\varepsilon},{\;}{\Lambda}$/. The results of the present are as follows : $\circled1$ Speakers change their vocal tract features. $\circled2$ Vowels /a, ${\varepsilon}$, i/ appear to be proper for speaker recognition since they show invariable acoustic feature during voice modulation. $\circled3$ F1 does not change easily compared to higher formants. $\circled4$ F3-F2 appears to be constituent for a speaker identification in vowel /a/ and /$\varepsilon$/, and F4-F2 in vowel /i/. $\circled5$ Resulting of F-ratio, differences of each formants were more useful than individual formant of a vowel to speaker recognition.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2010

English vowels can be divided into monophthongs and diphthongs depending on the number of vocal tract shapes. Diphthongs are usually produced with more than one shape. This study attempts to collect acoustical data of English diphthongs published by Hillenbrand et al.(1995) online and to examine acoustic features of the diphthongs for phoneticians and English teachers. Sixty three American males and females were chosen after excluding those subjects with different target vowels or ambiguous formant tracks. The author used Praat to obtain the acoustical data systematically at eleven equidistant timepoints over the diphthongal segment. Obvious errors were corrected based on the spectrographic display of each diphthong. Results show that the formant trajectories of the diphthongs produced by the American males and females appeared quite similar. When the female formant values were uniformly normalized to those of the males, almost a perfect collapse occurred. Secondly, the diphthongal movements on the vowel space appeared not linear due to the coarticulatory gesture for the following consonant. Thirdly, the average duration of the diphthongs produced by the females was 1.156 times longer than that of the males while the pitch ratio between the two groups turned out to be 1.746 with a similar contour over measurement points. The author concludes that English diphthongs produced by various groups can be compared systematically when the acoustical values are obtained at proportional timepoints. Further studies will be desirable on the comparison of English diphthongs produced by native and nonnative speakers.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.20-29
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• 1991

기존의 선형 예측법에 의한 음성 분석의 기본적인 가정은 전극점 성도 필터의 입력은 백색 신호라는 것이다. 그러나, 주기성 입력 신호의 경우 피치 바이오스 오차가 기존 선형 예측 계수에 개입된다. 만일 여기 신호의 추정값을 이용할 수 있다면 멀티 펄스에 의한 선형 예측 분석으로 이러한 바이어스를 제거할 수 있다. 기존의 선형 예측 분석에서의 예측 오차는 멀티 펄스 여기 신호열과 불규칙 잡음 신호열의합으로 나타내어질 수 있으므로 선형 예측 오차로부터 멀티 펄스 신호열을 찾아내는 것은 고전적인 검출 및 추정의 문제로 생각될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 먼저 LRT 를 이용하여 예측오차로부터 멀티 펄스 신호의 위치와 크기를 찾아낸 다음 이 신호열로부터 피치 바이어스가 제거된 선형 예측 계수를 구하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 매번 적응된 임계값을 적용하여 반복 수행을 함으로써 성능향상을 입증하였다.