• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.11-17
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• 2024

The goal of the current study is to investigate whether L2 learners' perceptual ability regarding epenthetic vowels is interconnected with other aspects of speech recognition, such as lexical stress, sentence focus, and vowel recognition. Twenty-five Korean L2 learners of English participated in perception experiments assessing vowel epenthesis oddity, lexical stress oddity, sentence focus oddity, and vowel identification. Results indicate that accuracy on the vowel epenthesis oddity test is influenced by both lexical stress and sentence focus, suggesting that perceptual ability regarding epenthetic vowels is influenced by the acquisition of L2 rhythmic structure at both word and sentence levels. Additionally, this study identifies a proficiency effect on vowel epenthesis recognition, implying that the influence of L1 phonotactics diminishes as L2 proficiency increases. Taken together, this study illustrates the interaction between perceptual abilities in vowel epenthesis and prosodic stress in the field of L2 speech perception.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.160-166
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 CV (Consonant Vowel), VCCV (Vowel Consonant Consonant Vowel), VC (Vowel Consonant) 인식 단위를 이용한 새로운 어휘 독립 음성인식 시스템을 구현하였다. 이 인식 단위는 음절의 안정된 모음 구간에서 분할하여 구성했기 때문에 분할이 용이하다. VCCV단위가 존재하지 않을 경우에는 VC와 CV 반음절 모델을 결합하여 대체모델을 구성하였다. 모음군 군집화 (clustering)와 VCCV 모델이 존재하지 않을 경우 대체모델에 결합규칙을 적용하여 제 1후보에서 90.4% (모델 A)에서 95.6% (모델 C)로 5.2%의 인식 성능향상을 가져왔다. 인식실험결과 제 2후보에서 98.8%의 인식률로 제안된 방법이 효율적임을 확인하였다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.11-17
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• 2022

English vowels play an important role in verbal communication. However, Korean students tend to experience difficulty pronouncing a certain set of vowels despite extensive education in English. The aim of this study is to apply speech recognition software to evaluate Korean students' pronunciation of English vowels in minimal pair words and then to examine acoustic characteristics of the pairs in order to check their pronunciation problems. Thirty female Korean college students participated in the recording. Speech recognition rates were obtained to examine which English vowels were correctly pronounced. To compare and verify the recognition results, such acoustic analyses as the first and second formant trajectories and durations were also collected using Praat. The results showed an overall recognition rate of 54.7%. Some students incorrectly switched the tense and lax counterparts and produced the same vowel sounds for qualitatively different English vowels. From the acoustic analyses of the vowel formant trajectories, some of these vowel pairs were almost overlapped or exhibited slight acoustic differences at the majority of the measurement points. On the other hand, statistical analyses on the first formant trajectories of the three vowel pairs revealed significant differences throughout the measurement points, a finding that requires further investigation. Durational comparisons revealed a consistent pattern among the vowel pairs. The author concludes that speech recognition and analysis software can be useful to diagnose pronunciation problems of English-language learners.

• Journal of Audiology & Otology
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.124-130
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• 2021

Background and Objectives: The study investigated vowel context effects on the perception of stop consonants in Malayalam. It also probed into the role of vowel context effects in determining the frequency of occurrence of various consonant-vowel (CV) syllables in Malayalam. Subjects and Methods: The study used a cross-sectional pre-experimental post-test only research design on 30 individuals with normal hearing, who were native speakers of Malayalam. The stimuli included three stop consonants, each spoken in three different vowel contexts. The resultant nine syllables were presented in original form and five gating conditions. The consonant recognition in different vowel contexts of the participants was assessed. The frequency of occurrence of the nine target syllables in the spoken corpus of Malayalam was also systematically derived. Results: The consonant recognition score was better in the /u/ vowel context compared with /i/ and /a/ contexts. The frequency of occurrence of the target syllables derived from the spoken corpus of Malayalam showed that the three stop consonants occurred more frequently with the vowel /a/ compared with /u/ and /i/. Conclusions: The findings show a definite vowel context effect on the perception of the Malayalam stop consonants. This context effect observed is different from that in other languages. Stop consonants are perceived better in the context of /u/ compared with the /a/ and /i/ contexts. Furthermore, the vowel context effects do not appear to determine the frequency of occurrence of different CV syllables in Malayalam.

• 대한청각학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.124-130
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• 2021

Background and Objectives: The study investigated vowel context effects on the perception of stop consonants in Malayalam. It also probed into the role of vowel context effects in determining the frequency of occurrence of various consonant-vowel (CV) syllables in Malayalam. Subjects and Methods: The study used a cross-sectional pre-experimental post-test only research design on 30 individuals with normal hearing, who were native speakers of Malayalam. The stimuli included three stop consonants, each spoken in three different vowel contexts. The resultant nine syllables were presented in original form and five gating conditions. The consonant recognition in different vowel contexts of the participants was assessed. The frequency of occurrence of the nine target syllables in the spoken corpus of Malayalam was also systematically derived. Results: The consonant recognition score was better in the /u/ vowel context compared with /i/ and /a/ contexts. The frequency of occurrence of the target syllables derived from the spoken corpus of Malayalam showed that the three stop consonants occurred more frequently with the vowel /a/ compared with /u/ and /i/. Conclusions: The findings show a definite vowel context effect on the perception of the Malayalam stop consonants. This context effect observed is different from that in other languages. Stop consonants are perceived better in the context of /u/ compared with the /a/ and /i/ contexts. Furthermore, the vowel context effects do not appear to determine the frequency of occurrence of different CV syllables in Malayalam.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1994년도 제11회 음성통신 및 신호처리 워크샵 논문집 (SCAS 11권 1호)
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• pp.364-367
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• 1994

In this paper, we carried out some experiments on the Korean vowel recognition using the fractal dimension of the speech signals. We chose the Mincowski-Bouligand dimensioni as the fractal dimension, and computed it using the morphological covering method. For our experiments, we used both the fractal dimension and the LPC cepstrum which is conventionally known to be one of the best parameters for speech recognition, and examined the usefulness of the fractal dimension. From the vowel recognition experiments under various consonant contexts, we achieved the vowel recognition error rats of 5.6% and 3.2% for the case with only LPC cepstrum and that with both LPC cepstrum and the fractal dimension, respectively. The results indicate that the incorporation of the fractal dimension with LPC cepstrum gies more than 40% reduction in recognition errors, and indicates that the fractal dimension is a useful feature parameter for speech recognition.

• 한국산업정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산업정보학회 2003년도 추계공동학술대회
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• pp.721-727
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• 2003

This study designed and implemented a system to extract of vowel from a word. The system is comprised of a voice feature extraction module and a neutral network module. The voice feature extraction module use a LPC(Linear Prediction Coefficient) model to extract a voice feature from a word. The neutral network module is comprised of a learning module and voice recognition module. The learning module sets up a learning pattern and builds up a neutral network to learn. Using the information of a learned neutral network, a voice recognition module extracts a vowel from a word. A neutral network was made to learn selected vowels(a, eo, o, e, i) to test the performance of a implemented vowel extraction recognition machine. Through this experiment, could confirm that speech recognition module extract of vowel from 4 words.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 1988

In this study, the recognition experiments for Korean vowel are performed using peripheral auditory model. In addition, for the purpose of objective comparison, the recognition experiments are performed by extracting LPC cepstrum coefficients for the same speech data. The results are as follows. 1) The time and the frequency responses of the auditory model show that important features of input signal are involved in the responses of inner ear and auditory nerve. 2) The recognition results for Korean vowel show that the recognition rate by auditory model output is higher than the recognition rate by LPC cepstrum coefficients. 3) The adaptation phenomenon of auditory nerve provides useful characteristics for the discrimination of vowel signal.

• 정보처리학회논문지A
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• 제10A권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 음절수와 모음 열 정보를 이용한 한국어 연속 숫자 인식을 제안하였다. 제안한 연속 숫자 인식기는 첫 단계로 발성된 연속 숫자 음성에서 음절수와 구간을 추출하고, 두 번째 단계로 모음 열을 인식한다. 이와 같이 인식된 모음 열 정보를 이용하여 인식 후보를 줄이게 된다. 인식후보 모델은 조음효과에 효과적으로 대처할 수 있는 CV(Consonant Vowel), VCCV, VC단위 HMM(Hidden Markov Model)을 사용하여 연속 숫자 음성인식기를 구성하였다. 실험결과 제안된 방법이 조음효과를 효과적으로 대처하고 연결 숫자 인식에 유효함을 확인하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.1140-1148
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• 1994

본 논문에서는 음성신호의 프랙탈 차원을 이용하여 한국어 모음인식 실험을 수행하였다. 프랙탈 차원은 Minkowski-Bouligand 차원을 사용하였으며, 형태학적 커버링(morphological covering) 방법을 이용하여 구하였다. 프렉탈 차원과 더불어 기존에 우수한 음성 인식 파라메타로 알려져 있는 LPC 켐스트럼(cepstrum)을 함께 사용하였으며, 프랙탈 차원의 음성인식에의 유용성 여부를 조사하였다. 다양한 자음환경에서의 모음인식 실험결과, LPC 켐스트럼 만을 사용하는 경우 및 프렉탈 차원과 LPC 켐스트럼을 함께 사용하는 경우의 모음 오인식율이 각각 5.6% 및 3.2%로 얻어졌다. 이는 LPC 켑스트럼에 프렉탈 차원을 추가함으로써 오인식되는 데이터가 40%이상 감소되는 결과이며, 프랙탈 차원이 음성인식에 있어서 유용한 특징 파라메터임을 보여준다.