Dynamic Range for Speech Materials in Korean, English, and Mandarin: A Cross-Language Comparison

Abstract

The observed differences in DR across languages suggest that the best-fit DR for Korean and Mandarin may be different than the best fit for English.

Comparison of a Hearing Aid Fitting Formula Based on Korean Acoustic Characteristics and Existing Fitting Formulae

“…However, the most important frequency areas for the Mandarin BIF were between 840 Hz and 1,370 Hz and the cumulative importance weights were around 29% (Kuo, 2013). In terms of the DR of speech, the DR for Korean was narrower than the Mandarin DR in low-frequencies (less than the center frequency of 450 Hz) (Jin et al, 2014). Based on these differences across languages, it seems difficult to say that the existing HA fitting formulae sufficiently reflects the acoustic characteristics of Korean.…”

“…However, the Korean language has different characteristics compared to English and tonal languages (Jin et al, 2014;Jin et al, 2016). Compared to English, the Korean language has different acoustic characteristics such as the LTASS, DR of speech, and the BIF which mentioned above (Jin et al, 2014;Jin et al, 2016;Noh & Lee, 2012). Compared to tonal languages like Mandarin, the Korean language also has different acoustic characteristics like the BIF and the DR of speech.…”

“…Specifically, high frequency energy for Korean LTASS was less than the energy for English LTASS. In addition, the DR of Korean speech differs from the DR of English (Jin et al, 2014). Jin et al (2014) reported that the DR for Korean was narrower than the English DR in low-frequencies.…”

“…In addition, the DR of Korean speech differs from the DR of English (Jin et al, 2014). Jin et al (2014) reported that the DR for Korean was narrower than the English DR in low-frequencies. Moreover, Korean BIFs were differed from the English BIFs (Jin et al, 2016).…”

Keys of Japanese prosody and didactical — technical analysis of OJAD (Online Japanese Accent Dictionary)

“…Indirectly, from this conclusion it can be interpreted that attending to written skills regarding analysis of accent or intonation are not improved. Following these authors, they suggest that the native citizenship uses mostly the dialect of Tokyo (considered as standard Japanese) and many of the Japanese students are from Asian countries whose native languages are tonal, such as Chinese (Braun, Galts and Kabak, 2014;Jin, Kates and Arehart, 2014). These and other aspects have been taken into consideration when developing of the OJAD project and, therefore, at the time to develop the OJAD website.…”