• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.80-85
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 음성합성기에서 합성음의 자연성을 향상시키기 위한 한 방법으로 운 율 제어요소중 세기 제어 모델을 통계적인 방법을 이용하여 제안하였다. 세기 제어 모델을 구성하기 위하여, 음성의 세기는 피치에 비례한다는 사실에 기반하여, 녹음된 음성 데이터에 서 음절의 각 모음에 대한 평균파워와 평균피치를 구하고, 피치를 종속변수로 하는 모음의 세기 예측식을 만들었다. 예측식에 의하여 얻어진 세기값과 실제 측정된 세기값과의 상관도 는 전체모음에 대하여 약 0.63으로 나타났다. 본 논문에서는 예측 세기와 실제 세기와의 상 관도를 향상시키기 위하여 피치만을 고려하여 예측된 세기값을 음운환경을 고려하여 선형 오차를 보정하는 방법을 제안하였고, 이 방법을 이용하여 얻어진 세기값은 전체모음에 대하 여 실제 세기값과 0.71의 상관도로 향상시킬 수 있었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.72-77
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• 2006

British acoustics in the nineteenth century is important as a foundation for modern acoustics in the history of acoustics. The Purpose and objective of acoustics was different from those in modern age. and musical motivation was distinguished among them. This study intends to clarify various aspects of interaction between music and acoustics in nineteenth-century Britain by examining related materials in both published and unpublished forms. Then music Provided acoustics with instruments, subjects, and personnel, and acoustics did much as musical science in helping to improve and develop musical scales and enhancing the exactness of measurement of absolute pitches. Music played an essential role in developing acoustics to a modern discipline in Europe, especially in Britain. all through the nineteenth century.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.35 no.10
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• pp.868-874
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• 2007

Noises from the helicopter rotor model are calculated numerically at various pitch angles. The aerodynamic data are calculated by using prescribed wake model and unsteady panel method. The distribution of aerodynamic loads on the blade surface are obtained from $0^{\circ}$ to $9^{\circ}$ pitch angles with equiangular increments of $1.5^{\circ}$. Although thickness noise is not related to the change of pitch angles, loading noise level increases about 3~4dBA every $1.5^{\circ}$ increment of pitch angle. The additive noise level shows sufficient value to perceive the loudness. From the result of directivity pattern the sound level at the lower region of the blade disc plane is higher than that of the upper region.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.191-208
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• 2012

Two fundamental aspects of speech summary generation are the extraction of key speech content and the style of presentation of the extracted speech synopses. We first investigated whether acoustic features (speaking rate, pitch pattern, and intensity) are equally important and, if not, which one can be effectively modeled to compute the significance of segments for lecture summarization. As a result, we found that the intensity (that is, difference between max DB and min DB) is the most efficient factor for speech summarization. We evaluated the intensity-based method of using the difference between max-DB and min-DB by comparing it to the keyword-based method in terms of which method produces better speech summaries and of how similar weight values assigned to segments by two methods are. Then, we investigated the way to present speech summaries to the viewers. As such, for speech summarization, we suggested how to extract key segments from a speech video efficiently using acoustic features and then present the extracted segments to the viewers.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1992.06a
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• pp.54-57
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• 1992

음성합성에 있어서 음의 자연성을 합성시키는 문제는 크게 두가지로 나누어진다. 첫째는 합성음을 원음에 가깝게 구현하려는 합성방법 자체의 문제로, 언어 합성이 가지고 있는 일반적인 문제이다. 또 다른 문제는 운율에 관한 것으로 낱말 또는 문장 내에서의 운율에 따라 합성음의 자연성이 좌우된다. 이러한 운율에 따라 합성음의 자연성이 좌우된다. 이러한 운율의 조절에는 지속시간, 피치, 그리고 음의 세기 등이 이용된다. 켑스트럼을 이용하여 분석합성을 하는 경우, pole-zero 모델로 스펙트럼 포락을 근사하므로 원음에 충실하고, 필터계수와 구동정보를 분리하여 분석, 합성하므로 인위적인 운율의 조절이 용이하여 음성합성이 가지는 위의 두가지 문제를 해결하는데 적합하다고 판단된다. 본 연구에서는 켑스트럼을 이용하여 분석합성 시스템을 구성하였다. 음성 합성 과정에서, 운율 조절 파라미터중의 하나인 피치 주기의 변경에 따라 스펙트럼 포락의 왜곡에 대해 살펴보고, 왜곡을 최소화하는 방안을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2002.11b
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• pp.511-516
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• 2002

Pitch is a perception related to the subjective frequency that is one of the psychological aspects or attributes of tones. It is also an important factor to determine the sound quality together with loudness and timber. Although the study on pitch has been active in the field of speech communication, but its application to the product sound quality is not yet enough. In this study, the empirical data by Zwicker is made use in the modification of the currently available pitch extraction model based on the place theory. By applying this modified model to various sound samples composed of tonal or banded components, the applicability of the model is suggested. As a demonstration example, the algorithm is used for the sound quality analysis of a product noise having fundamental frequency and harmonics. The result shows that the pitch should be regarded as an important subjective cue in the sound quality analysis.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.182-186
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• 2006

Due to their periodic helical structure, cholesteric liquid crystals (CLC) have a unique ability to selectively reflect light. CLC films reflecting a broad wavelength band were prepared by inducing a pitch gradient in CLC layer through a phase separation. The reflection bandwidth of the CLC cell was broaden as irradiation light intensity decreased and as the amount of the UV absorbing dye increased. Initial reflection bandwidth of 50 nm was broaden to 300 nm Various pitch distributions in the CLC cell was observed using SEM and ATR-IR technique was used to prove that the pitch distributions are induced through the phase separation.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.3-6
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• 1999

합성음의 자연성은 운율(prosody)과 관계가 있으며, 운율은 지속시간(duration), 세기(intensity), 피치(pitch)의 3가지 요소가 어우러져 이루어진다. 본 연구에서는 한국어 여성 음에 나타나는 지속시간 패턴을 분석하여 지속시간의 규칙을 정리함을 목적으로 한다. 본 연구에서는 각 음소(자음, 모음)의 고유 지속시간과 단어내의 음절 위치, 인접음소의 영향, 구와 절의 경계의 영향에 따른 지속시간의 변화를 조사하여 지속시간 규칙을 정립하였다 청취 실험 결과, 본 지속시간 규칙이 합성음의 자연성을 향상시켰다는 것을 보여준다.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.155-161
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• 2016

This paper proposes a novel fabrication method for a capacitive type micro-accelerometer with uniform nano-gap using photo-assisted electro-chemical etching. The sensitivity of the accelerometer should be improved while the electrodes between the inertial mass and the sensing comb should be narrowed. In this paper the nano-gap trench structure is fabricated using the photo-assisted electrochemical etching method. The sensor was designed and analysed using ANSYS simulator. The characteristics of the etching were observed according to the dc bias, the light intensity, the composition of the solution, the temperature of the solution, and the pattern pitch variation. The optimum etching conditions were dc bias of 2V, Blue LED of 20mA, 49wt% HF:DMF:D.I.Water=1:20:10, the pattern pitch of $20{\mu}m$. Uniform trench structure with width of 344nm and depth of $11.627{\mu}m$ are formed using the optimum condition.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.63-69
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• 2001

A corpus-based lip sync algorithm for synthesizing natural face animation is proposed in this paper. To get the lip parameters, some marks were attached some marks to the speaker's face, and the marks' positions were extracted with some Image processing methods. Also, the spoken utterances were labeled with HTK and prosodic information (duration, pitch and intensity) were analyzed. An audio-visual corpus was constructed by combining the speech and image information. The basic unit used in our approach is syllable unit. Based on this Audio-visual corpus, lip information represented by mark's positions was synthesized. That is. the best syllable units are selected from the audio-visual corpus and each visual information of selected syllable units are concatenated. There are two processes to obtain the best units. One is to select the N-best candidates for each syllable. The other is to select the best smooth unit sequences, which is done by Viterbi decoding algorithm. For these process, the two distance proposed between syllable units. They are a phonetic environment distance measure and a prosody distance measure. Computer simulation results showed that our proposed algorithm had good performances. Especially, it was shown that pitch and intensity information is also important as like duration information in lip sync.