• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.62-67
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• 1993

부호 여기된 선형예측 음성보코더들은 4800bps의 낮은 전송율에서도 좋은 음질을 제공한다. CELP 형 보코더의 피치검색법의 문제점중에 하나는 피치 검출시의 조오류에 의해 예측이득이 저하된다는 점이다. 본 논문에서 우리는 CELP 보코더의 피치 예측이득을 개선하는 한 새로운 피치검색법을 제안하였다. 제안한 방법은 예비피치들을 검출하여 이들중 피치 예측이득이 최대인 값을 선정하는 방법을 적용하였다. 이 방법을 여러 화자의 발성에 대해 적용한 결과 피치 예측이득율 6.1% 정도 개선할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.3188-3193
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• 2012

It is important to search a pitch for vocoder. The major drawback to vocoders is their large computational requirements in searching a pitch and a codebook. In this paper, a simple method is proposed to improve the pitch searching process in the pitch filter almost without degradation of quality. The period of speech signal is emphasized by using Dual Pulse technique, the same type of autocorrelation method, in pitch search. Sometimes the incorrect pitch can be obtained by halving, doubling and trifling, To solve it, before searching a pitch, we estimate energy rate in a frame and compensate envelop of signal with it. By using the proposed algorithm in pitch search, its required computation are reduced and searching pitch is improved.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.10
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• pp.83-88
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• 2012

The pitch searching is a very important process in a vocoder. Generally, the method of pitch searching method is used by highlighting the periodicity, where a correlation is identified with the signal by changing the interval of two pulses. When the correlation value is highest, the pitch can be found by the pulse interval because it is the repetition interval with most striking period. There are many methods to solve this problem and search the pitch by dividing a frame into many subframes, but there is too much calculation to solve. A method in this paper is suggested to vary the number of subframes by predicting the amplitude change rate in a frame. If this method is applied, the general pitch searching performance will be improved because the accuracy may be enhanced without affecting the sound quality in the synthesized signal after parameter transmission; and the pitch searching time may be reduced.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.7
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• pp.419-426
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• 2012

The pitch searching is a vital process in a vocoder. Generally, the method of pitch searching is employed after highlighting the periodicity, where a correlation is identified with the signal by changing the interval of two pulses. When the correlation value reaches the peak, the pitch can be found by the pulse interval because it is the repetition interval with most striking period. However if the identified period happens to be one of half period, double period or triple period, this cannot be considered as the pitch period. Many methods were suggested to solve this problem. An inaccurate pitch could be obtained as well, when there is an interval where signal amplitude is not constant but varies abruptly in the frame. To solve this matter, searching the pitch by dividing a frame into various subframes is adopted, but too much calculation has to be followed while it leads the correct value. This paper suggests an algorithm to resolve these two problems. First, to search the pitch after advance correction of the signal energy level with an estimated overall energy change ratio in the frame before pitch search to reduce half period, double period and triple period is suggested. Second, to vary the number of subframes by predicting the amplitude change rate in the frame by the energy ratio obtained by the above-mentioned method is advised. If these two methods are applied, the pitch searching time can be reduced and the general pitch searching performance can be improved without affecting the sound quality in the synthesized signal.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.08a
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• pp.127-130
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• 1998

피치검색과 3-level clipping을 이용한 새로운 파형부호화법을 제안하고자 한다. 제안한 방법에서는 우선 피치를 검출하여 기준피치파형과 인근피치파형을 검색한다. 그 후 유사도 측정시 기준피치파형과 인근 피치파형에 대해 3-level clippng을 수행한다. 클리핑된 기준피치파형가 인근피치파형간의 유사도를 측정하여 유사성이 크다면 피치정보와 에너지 정보만을 전송하거나 저장하여 압축을 하고, 유사성이 적다면 인근피치파형을 압축을 하지 않고 저장한다. 그 후에 저장된 ？ㅇ을 기준 피치파형으로 재정의 하여 다시 반복적으로 압축을 수행한다. 압축된 음성신호를 다시 복원할 때에는 수신 또는 저장된 음성신호를 이용하여 PSOLA 방식으로 합성을 수행한다. 평균압축율이 약 65%일 경우에도, MOS 값이 4이상을 유지하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.2E
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• pp.20-25
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• 1994

The major drawback to the Code Excited Linear Prediction(CELP) type vocoders is their large computational requirements. In this paper, a simple method is proposed to reduce the pitch searching time in the pitch filter almost without degradation of quality. Bease upon the observational regularity of the correlation function of speech, the searching range can be restricted to the positive side in pitch search. This is done by skipping the negative side with the width which is estimated from the previous positive envelope. In addition to that, the maximum number of available lags can be limited by the threshold, $L_T$, which is set on 58 empirically. So, only the limited numbers of lags are considered in pitch search, which is less than a half of that of the full search method. By using the proposed method in pitch search, its required computations are greatly reduced. Experimental result shows 51% time reduction almost without lowering the speech quality in segmental SNR measure.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.2E
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• pp.51-57
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• 1994

Code Excited Linear Prediction(CELP) vocoder exhibits good performance at data rates below 4.8 kbps. The major drawback to CELP type coders is their large amount of computation. In this paper, we propose a new pitch search method that preserves the quality of the CELP vocoder with reduced complexity. The basic idea is to restrict the pitch searching range by estimating the preliminary pitches. Applying the proposed method to the CELP vocoder, we can get approximately 87% complexity reduction in the pitch search.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.84-92
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• 2011

다성 음악 신호의 주요 멜로디 검출 기술은 프레임 단위로 다중 피치를 검색하고 멜로디 피치를 선택하여 최종 멜로디를 검출한다. 그러나 다중 피치 검색의 한계와 피치 검색에서의 더블링(doubling)과 하빙(halving) 등으로 인하여 멜로디 피치 검출의 정확도가 저하되는 문제점을 가진다. 따라서 다성 음악의 주요 멜로디 검출 과정은 프레임 사이의 멜로디 피치를 분석하여 추가적으로 멜로디 피치를 보정하는 과정이 필요하다. 본 고에서는 다성 음악 신호에서 프레임 단위로 검출된 멜로디 피치를 보정하여 주요 멜로디 검출의 정확도를 추가로 향상시키는 기술들을 소개한다. 다양한 기술들을 접근 방식에 따라 분류하여 설명하고, 대표적인 기술의 검출 정확도 향상 성능을 간단히 정리한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.2E
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• pp.33-36
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• 1995

Based on the Characteristics of the correlation function of speech signal, the skipping technique can reduced the computation time considerably with a little degradation of speech quality. To improve the speech quality of the skipping technique, we use the reduced form of the correlation function to check the sign of the correlation value before the match score is calculated. The experimental results show that this modified skipping technique can reduce the computation time in pitch search over 35% compared with the traditional full search method without quality degradation.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.1398-1406
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• 2007

Providing natural and efficient access to the fast growing multimedia information is a critical aspect for content-based information system. Query by humming system allows the user to find a song by humming part of the tune form music database. Conventional music information retrieval systems use a high precision pitch extraction method. However, it is very difficult to extract true pitch perfectly. So, In this paper, we propose to use YIN parameter with applying the reliability to reduce the pitch extraction errors. And we describes developed music information retrieval method based on a query by humming system which uses reliable feature extraction. Developed system is based on a continuous dynamic programming algorithm with features including pitch, duration and energy along with their confidence measures. The experiment showed that the proposed method could reduce the errors of the top-10 7.2% and the top-1 9.1% compared with the cepsturm based multiple pitch candidate. The overall retrieval system achieved 92.8% correct retrieval in the top-10 rank list on a database of 155 songs.