• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.155-162
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• 2012

The population of Korea is ageing as the number of elderly people increases due to improvements in health care and diet. Accordingly, it is expected that interest in how to live actively during the years after retirement and how to communicate effectively will increase the demand for voice improvement methods and technology. However, the criteria to evaluate the voice strength and characteristics of the elderly are lacking. In this study, we analyzed the acoustic characteristics of elderly women living in the community according to residential status and mental health status (e.g. depressive mood). Accordingly, we selected women (n=63) above the age of 65 age who were living in the Seoul metropolitan area and Daegu Gyeongbuk. The selected subjects were divided into two groups: a normal speaker group (n=40) and a speaker group comprised of those suffering from depressive mood (n=23). This study analyzed the voice characteristics of subjects based on collected data through the sustained phonation of the vowel /a/. It was shown that there were differences among MPT, F0, Jitter, Shimmer and NHR depending on location of residence but no difference with regard to depressive mood. Therefore, we must consider location of residence in elderly as the key factor in demonstrating the voice norms of seniors.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Laryngology, Phoniatrics and Logopedics
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.178-184
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• 1997

Vocal nodule due to vocal hyperfunction is one of the representative chronic diseases of vocal folds, and it can be cured by surgical movement, and/or voice therapy. The present study is, focusing on the latter, to compare the acoustic and aerodynamic results of the pretreatment with those of posttreatment, and then to investigate the objective date on the efficiency of the voice therapy for the patients with vocal nodules. 11 females(age : 7-49) and 5 males(age : 8-40), total 16 patients wi vocal nodules treated by voice therapy were participated as subjects. Six measurements and comparisons of pretreatment and posttreatment of the results were performed : litter, shimmer, and noise-to-harmonic ratio as acoustic analyses ; maximum phonation time, mean flow rate, and the subtraction of mean flow rate from maximum flow rate as aerodynamic analyses. As a result, 14 of 16 subjects showed improvement at more than 4 of 6 measurements, and in group data, every measurements of posttreatment was improved significantly than the pretreatment. On the whole, the improvement of aerodynamic aspects was more statistically significant than that of acoustic ones.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.1
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• pp.90-96
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• 2014

IEEE802.15.4 that is a standard for sensor networks is mainly used the wireless personal area networks such as ZigBee networks and it features low-power, low-speed data communication. However, recently research for interworking sensor network based voice communication and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for long-range, multi-user support has been actively conducted. In this paper, we designed a integrated base station based existing systems for interworking sensor networks based voice communication and SIP. We measured number of packet and delay according to increase the number of users to evaluate the performance of designed Base Station.

• Proceedings of the KOR-BRONCHOESO Conference
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• 1993.05a
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• pp.72-72
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• 1993

Among the various diagnostic methods for the voice disorders, video laryngo-stroboscopy is one of the most practical techniques for clinical examination of the vocal fold vibration. It provides valuable informations about the nature of vocal folds' vibration, the extent of pathologic change and data recording for analysis. To obtain the stroboscopic characteristics of several voice disorders, and apply those informations to the diagnosis and management of disorders, we reviewed the stroboscopic findings obtained from the patients with voice disorders at Voice laboratory, the Institute of Logopedics and Phoniatrics form April 1992 to March 1993.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.713-725
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• 2022

Mostly, artificial intelligence does not show any definite change in emotions. For this reason, it is hard to demonstrate empathy in communication with humans. If frequency modification is applied to neutral emotions, or if a different emotional frequency is added to them, it is possible to develop artificial intelligence with emotions. This study proposes the emotion conversion using the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based voice frequency synthesis. The proposed method extracts a frequency from speech data of twenty-four actors and actresses. In other words, it extracts voice features of their different emotions, preserves linguistic features, and converts emotions only. After that, it generates a frequency in variational auto-encoding Wasserstein generative adversarial network (VAW-GAN) in order to make prosody and preserve linguistic information. That makes it possible to learn speech features in parallel. Finally, it corrects a frequency by employing Amplitude Scaling. With the use of the spectral conversion of logarithmic scale, it is converted into a frequency in consideration of human hearing features. Accordingly, the proposed technique provides the emotion conversion of speeches in order to express emotions in line with artificially generated voices or speeches.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38C no.3
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• pp.239-246
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• 2013

The IEEE 802.15.4 offers standard about PHY and MAC layer and features low power, low bandwidth, and low speed data communication. Because of this reason, IEEE 802.15.4 is only within a limited range such as sensor detection and home network; nevertheless, the research about transmission multimedia data like voice packet through wireless sensor networks is conducted widely. In this paper, we proposed the group communication system based on the sensor network. TDMA/TDD MAC based on the IEEE 802.15.4 PHY for voice communication on the sensor network is designed by improvement existing peer-to-peer voice communication on the sensor network and hardware is implemented for group communication. To measure the quality of designed system, mean opinion score (MOS) is obtained from the experiment and verified by using sine wave method. As a result of an experiment, we expect that a many cases of application solution can be developed using presented system.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.259-266
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• 2013

Since the wireless communications have a limited transmission, the devices just around a master node can exchange data. Though Bluetooth and Zigbee support ad hoc, they are not appropriate for real-time voice communications. In this paper, we present a TDMA-based relay protocol for several users to communicate simultaneously. The proposed protocol can relay data or voice to other nodes in real-time by the multi-hop transmission method using TDMA. And the proposed protocol improves the network performance by allocating different frequencies to the slaves depending on the routing path scheduled by the routing table. NS-2 simulation shows that the performance of the proposed protocol is good in terms of the transmission delay and pecket loss probability in the real-time voice transmission.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.946-952
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• 2011

In term of inaccuracy of information and increasing channel occupancy time, the use of voice communication in Air Traffic Control has many problems. In order to improve it, ICAO proposed digital communication and ADS-B system that is more effective for voice communication in ATC. For improvement of effectiveness to add additional parameter to designated ADS-B In-Out data group, many studies being performed. In this paper, we analysis voice communication for reduce the communication traffic in ATC and simulate to add aiming altitude parameter for comparative effect analysis of communication traffic between pilot and controller. The result of the analysis were successfully validated that reduction of communication traffic in ADS-B environments.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.2374-2380
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• 2011

Many people is preferred to mVoIP which offers call telephone-quality and convenient UI as well as free of charge. On the other hand, security of mVoIP is becoming an issue as it using Internet network may have danger about wiretapping. Although traditionally encryption algorithm of symmetric key for security of voice data has been used, ECC algorithm of public key type has been preferring for encryption because it is stronger in part the strength of encryption than others. However, the existing way is restricted by lots of operations in poor mobile environment. Thus this paper proposes the efficiency of resource consumption way by reducing cryptographic operations.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.1802-1809
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• 2004

This paper discusses cost allocation model of common facilities in voice and data traffic of mobile telephone network. There are several methods to be considered including traffic, facility, revenue, Ramsey, and benchmarking in local loop unbundling for High Speed Internet. It is important to investigate the strength and weakness of each method. This paper reviews the theoretical literatures and compares the characteristics of each methodology. Also, case studies are employed to get the implications concerned. As a result, in the beginning, it is desirable to introduce 50:50 allocation method used in local loop unbundling in UK. Then, it is recommendable to apply the ratio allocation method as the quantities of voice and data traffic become equal.