• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.219-227
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• 2019

In this paper, we proactively looked at the structure and characteristics of each instrument in order to compare and analyze the sound colors of the western violin, chinese erhu and korean haegeum, which are representative bow string instruments. Also, many performers have simply been unable to fully explain how the violin is rich in pitch and the haegeum has a unique tone. Also, many performers thinks that violin sounds rich just because it has many overtones and have been unable to fully explain how haegeum makes unique tone. While previous research data show that most instruments are studied and published by analyzing their own frequencies or related cases of acoustic studies, this study provides a visual look how the harmonics composition, which determines musical instruments' timbres, consists of and suggests data specifically by analyzing each sound pressure of integer multiple overtones so that the structure of instruments' unique timbre can be understood. Based on this, we hope that it will be of considerable help to the development of virtual musical instruments of korean traditional instruments, which are relatively small compared to western virtual instruments, by reproducing instrument sounds through the synthesizers in the future.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.5763-5768
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• 2014

Maintaining a voice color is important when compounding both the normal voice because an emotion is not expressed with various emotional voices in a single synthesizer. When a synthesizer is developed using the recording data of too many expressed emotions, a voice color cannot be maintained and each synthetic speech is can be heard like the voice of different speakers. In this paper, the speech data was recorded and the change in the voice color was analyzed to develop an emotional HMM-based speech synthesizer. To realize a speech synthesizer, a voice was recorded, and a database was built. On the other hand, a recording process is very important, particularly when realizing an emotional speech synthesizer. Monitoring is needed because it is quite difficult to define emotion and maintain a particular level. In the realized synthesizer, a normal voice and three emotional voice (Happiness, Sadness, Anger) were used, and each emotional voice consists of two levels, High/Low. To analyze the voice color of the normal voice and emotional voice, the average spectrum, which was the measured accumulated spectrum of vowels, was used and the F1(first formant) calculated by the average spectrum was compared. The voice similarity of Low-level emotional data was higher than High-level emotional data, and the proposed method can be monitored by the change in voice similarity.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.41-44
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 PC 응용을 위한 고음질의 한국어 text-to-speech(TTS) 합성 시스템을 개발하였다. 개발된 시스템의 합성방식으로는 음의 고저 조절, 인접음 사이의 연결 처리 및 음색제어 등에서 기존의 PSOLA 방식에 비해 장점을 가지는 정현파 모델 기반의 방식을 채택하였고, 자연스러운 운율 모델링을 위하여 통계적 기법중의 하나인 Classification and regression tree(CART) 방법을 사용하였다. 또한 음소 경계의 불연속성 문제를 줄이기 위한 합성단위로 초성-중성 및 종성 단위를 사용하였고, 다양한 음색표현이 가능하도록 음색제어 기능을 갖추었다. 그리고, 표준 Speech Application Program Interface(SAPI)를 준용한 TTS engine 형태로 구현함으로써 PC 상에서의 응용 프로그램 개발 편의성을 높였다. 합성음의 청취평가 결과 음질의 우수성 및 음색제어 기능의 유효성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.1354-1360
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• 2006

Daegeum is the only Korean musical instrument that uses cheong The characteristics of cheong have to be considered first for the sound synthesis of daegeum. This study analyzes the changes of partials in accordance with the vibration of cheong. It shows that amplitudes differ at the partials after about the seventh partial. The study also found that, unlike the case of partials, the vibration of cheong has nothing to do with noise. We expect that this study results can be applied to the sound synthesis of daegeum.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.771-774
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• 2013

This study investigates the relationship between voice quality measurements and emotional states, in addition to conventional prosodic and cepstral features. Open quotient, harmonics-to-noise ratio, spectral tilt, spectral sharpness, and band energy were analyzed as voice quality features, and prosodic features related to fundamental frequency and energy are also examined. ANOVA tests and Sequential Forward Selection are used to evaluate significance and verify performance. Classification experiments show that using the proposed features increases overall accuracy, and in particular, errors between happy and angry decrease. Results also show that adding voice quality features to conventional cepstral features leads to increase in performance.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.197-206
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• 2006

Vibration of string is transmitted to the front plate through bridge to cause resonance of the instrument body in viol family string instruments. Therefore. the properties. geometrical shape. and positioning of the bridge are expected to have some effect on the sound color. In this study the strain and the stress in the bridge. and the force exerted on the top plate by the bridge as the string vibrates the bridge in cello are calculated through simulation based on the theory of elasticity. The modes of vibration and the characteristic frequencies are also found. Furthermore. the effect of geometric shape of bridge on sound color is studied in terms of frequency response. The results of this study show that the vibration characteristics of bridge is quite complex and the properties and the geometrical shape of bridge have significant effect on sound color, and therefore. the sound color of a cello can be controlled by changing the geometrical shape of bridge.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.229-236
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• 2020

In this paper, the tone of Daegeum, one of the most representative wind instruments of our country, was analyzed. Daegeum is widely used as Jeongak Daegeum and Sanjo Daegeum, which are played in royal and wind music, and Sanjo Daegeum is mainly played in Sanjo, Sinawi and folk music. The reason why the two pieces of music are being played in different music genres is due to the improvement of the length of the pipe and the location of the finger holes, allowing the Sanjo Daegeum to perform faster than Jeongak Daegeum, apply various techniques, and make the choice of musical instruments harmonized with music by making the difference in tone. For timber analysis of Jeongak Daegeum and Sanjo Daegeum, the composition of the overtones was visually verified through Spectrogram and Spectrum Analizer, in which the results of recordings were recorded by playing octave low, flat, and octave high positions with the same power. From this, Jeongak Daegeum, which is rich in low-pitched sound, harmonizes with solemn music such as royal music, and Sanjo Daegeum, which has a relatively clear high-pitched sound, is well suited to bright music such as solo music.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.469-475
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• 2022

To train the model of the deep learning-based single-speaker TTS system, a speech DB of tens of hours and a lot of training time are required. This is an inefficient method in terms of time and cost to train multi-speaker or personalized TTS models. The voice cloning method uses a speaker encoder model to make the TTS model of a new speaker. Through the trained speaker encoder model, a speaker embedding vector representing the timbre of the new speaker is created from the small speech data of the new speaker that is not used for training. In this paper, we propose a multi-speaker TTS system to which voice cloning is applied. The proposed TTS system consists of a speaker encoder, synthesizer and vocoder. The speaker encoder applies the d-vector technique used in the speaker recognition field. The timbre of the new speaker is expressed by adding the d-vector derived from the trained speaker encoder as an input to the synthesizer. It can be seen that the performance of the proposed TTS system is excellent from the experimental results derived by the MOS and timbre similarity listening tests.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.507-510
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 다채널 음향 시스템에서 라우드 스피커 이외의 위치에 가상음상을 정위시킬 때 발생되는 음상정위 오차 및 음색왜곡을 최소화 시키는 패닝기법을 제안한다. 기존 패닝기법의 음상정위 성능을 평가하기 위해 방향심리인자를 도입하고[1], 음색왜곡을 평가하기 위해 머리전달함수를 이용하여 실제 음원과 가상 음원과의 주파수특성 차이를 분석하였다. 이러한 객관적 성능분석을 통해 음상정위 오차 및 음색왜곡을 줄일 수 있는 새로운 패닝기법을 제안한다. 향상된 다채널패닝기법은 스테레오 및 서라운드 믹싱콘솔, 음향 편집 프로그램, 음장 재생기, 가상 서라운드 디코더 등 녹음 및 재생 전 분야에 걸쳐 사용될 수 있다.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.5-11
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• 2015

Yoseong sound is one of the Piri's representative techniques including unique timbre of Korean traditional musical instrument. This paper presents the acoustic characteristics of Yoseong sound by analyzing the sound of Piri and suggests audio filters that make Yoseong sound from ordinary sound of the Piri.