• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.08a
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• pp.188-191
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• 1998

호주 영어의 단어 중 한국인과 일본인이 구별하기 어려운 'work', 'walk', 'wok' 세 단어에 대해 다룬다. 우선 한국인과 일본인이 이들 세 단어를 어떻게 조음할 것인가를 예측하고, 실제로 한국인과 일본인 화자들이 조음한 자료를 가지고 모듬의 음질과 길이 두가지 측면으로 나누어 예측한 사항과 비교하고 또 이들 단어를 조음할 때 한국인과 일본인 사이에 어떤 음성 음운적 특징이 나타나는지도 비교 분석한다. 결과는 모국어의 음성, 음운적 영향이 목표어의 음소를 습득하고 발음하는데에 영향을 미친다는 사실을 보여주고 있다. 하지만 wok/wo k/의 예는 언어 보편적인 요소가 L2의 음소를 습득하는데 있어 또 하나의 요소로 작용하고 있음도 알려주고 있다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.66-73
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• 2010

Vehicles experience the impact due to harsh road conditions. Contact with a barrier on a road induces vehicles to vibrate, which brings about an impact sound. The attenuation of the impact sound is an important issue since passengers may complain about the impact noise. However, the perfect removal of impact noise is not possible as most of impact noise is caused by external conditions. It is thus necessary to make vehicles to possess more desirable sound quality characteristic of impact sound. More research is needed on objective attributes of impact sound; it is not a simple matter since impact noise is transient in nature and has a high level of sound at an instantaneous moment. A new objective attribute of impact noise is designed by using wavelet transform. Wavelet transform is appropriate for the analysis of transient signals such as impact noise. The usefulness of new objective attribute, which is a sound metric, is examined by comparison with the mean subjective rating for real impact noise of passenger cars. The new sound metric has better correlation with the mean subjective rating than already existing sound metrics

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.4 s.304
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• pp.103-110
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• 2005

Speech Database is one of the most important part of Text-to-speech(TTS) system Especially, the embedded TTS system needs more small size of database than that of the server TTS system So, the compression and statistical reduction or database is a very important factor in the embedded TTS system But this compression and statistical reduction of database always rise a loss of quality of the synthesised speech. In this paper, we propose a method of constructing database for high quality embedded TTS system and verify the quality of synthesised speech with MOS(Mean Opinion Score) test.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.06c
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• pp.342-345
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• 1994

본 논문에서는 무제한단어 음성합성 시스템인 한소리에 대해서 간략히 기술하고 청취실험을 통한 성능평가에 대해 논한다. 음성합성시스템의 음질을 결정하는 주요 요소들은 합성의 기본단위, 합성방법, 음운학적 전처리방법 및 운율조절방법이다. 한소리 합성시스템은 반음소를 음성합성의 기본단위로 하고, 형식형태소를 이용 음성학적 전처리를 실행하며, 개선된 한국어 운율조절방법이 적용되고, 음성단편조합방식을 합성방식을 사용한다. 청취실험결과 매우 한소리 합성시스템의 합성음이 자연스러움을 알 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the KSLP Conference
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• 1994.06a
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• pp.93-100
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• 1994

애성은 후두질환 특히 성대의 질환으로 인하여 소리의 구성요소인 음질(음색), 높이 세기(크기) 및 지속시간등에 이상이 있는 것을 말하며 그 정도의 성질은 여러 가지가 있으나 이것을 여러 방법으로 분류하는 것은 애성의 "메카니즘"을 알기 위해서도, 또 애성의 치료 효과를 알기 위해서도 유익하며 필요하다. 이제까지는 애성은 단지 주관적으로, 애성 (+), (++), (+)등으로 기록하여 왔으나 애성을 잘 들으면 보다 많은 진단에 도움이 되는 정보가 포함되어 있는 것을 알 수 있다. 이런 것을 상세하게 판정하여 기재하는 것은 장애의 진행, 개선, 수술후의 경과 등을 알기 위해서 임상상 크게 참고가 된다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.223-227
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• 2001

보안을 위한 암호화는 실시간 통신인 VoIP에 패킷의 추가적인 작업이 요구되므로 음질에 악영향을 미치게 된다. 이러한 영향을 파악하고 분석하기 위해 DES, 3DES, SEED 그리고 AES 등의 암호 알고리즘을 VoIP 시스템에 적용하여 지터나 RTT 혹은 패킷 손실율과 같은 QoS 요소를 측정함으로써 각 암호 알고리즘의 연산이 실시간 통신에 미치는 영향을 알아보았다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.71-83
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• 1994

This paper deals with the improvement of the synthesized speech quality and naturality in the Korean TTS(Text-to-Speech) system. We had extracted the parameters(table2) such as its amplitude, duration and pitch period in a syllable through the analysis of speech waveforms(table1) in the time domain and synthesized syllables using them. To the frequencies of the Korean pronunciation large vocabulary dictionary we had synthesized speeches selected 229 syllables such as V types are 19, CV types are 80. VC types are 30 and CVC types are 100. According to the 4 Korean syllable types from the data format dictionary(table3) we had tested each 15 syllables with the objective MOS(Mean Opinion Score) evaluation method about the 4 items i.e., intelligibility, clearness, loudness, and naturality after selecting random group without the knowledge of them. As the results of experiments the qualities of them are very clear and we can control the prosodic elements such as durations, accents and pitch periods (fig9, 10, 11, 12).

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.853-861
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• 2007

Currently, automotive industries improve the vehicle performance and reduce the development period of vehicle using each module part for the high quality and performance of vehicles. However each component part doesn't generate the noise and vibration problems, sometime these problems are generated on the assembly status between vehicle chassis frame and each module part. On this study, in order to analysis the dynamic characteristics of a shield door module that is a typical module part of vehicles, the acquisition and evaluation process about the vibration and noise of shield door module is developed. Also the possibility to apply to shield door module of the developed process is verified by the comparison with the dynamic characteristics between plastic and steel module plate.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.73-83
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• 2013

In previous works, psychoacoustic parameters have been used for objective quantification. However, these parameters do not agree well with subjective assessment. Therefore, the correlation between psychoacoustic parameters and the subjective rating of door closing sounds of sampled cars is low, and it is not sufficient to use psychoacoustic parameters as an objective metric to quantify the sound quality of door closing sounds. In this paper, a new method is proposed to objectively quantify the sound quality based on physiological acoustics and statistical signal processing. The gammatone filter, as a pre-processing, is used in models of the auditory system and kurtosis, which is the fourth-order moment of temporal signal, and is used to extract information about sound quality quantification for door closing sounds. The new metric obtained through the proposed method is highly correlated with subjective rating, and it is successfully applied to the quantification of the sound quality of door closing sounds.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.45-50
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• 2003

Recently, robots technique has been developed remarkably. Emotion recognition is necessary to make an intimate robot. This paper shows the simulator and simulation result which recognize or classify emotions by learning pitch pattern. Also, because the pitch is not sufficient for recognizing emotion, we added acoustic elements. For that reason, we analyze the relation between emotion and acoustic elements. The simulator is composed of the DRNN(Dynamic Recurrent Neural Network), Feature extraction. DRNN is a learning algorithm for pitch pattern.