• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.69-72
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• 2004

음성신호는 주기성으로 유성음과 무성음으로 구분할 수 있으며 유성음은 준주기성 신호이지만 무성음은 주기성이 없다. 주기성은 음성신호를 분석하는 중요한 파라미터 중 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 시간영역에서 피치의 시작점과 주파수 영역에서 분산을 이용하여 피치 검출 알고리즘을 제안하며 864개 단독 숫자음을 이용하여 실험한 결과 $99.5\%$의 정확도를 확인하였으며 제안된 알고리즘의 유효성을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.222-224
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• 2015

수조실험을 통하여 계류된 플로팅 구조물의 거동을 확인하고자 하였으며, 플로팅 폰툰에 상부골조의 고유주기를 변화시키면서 상부구조물과 함체의 상호작용에 대한 영향을 확인하였다. 입사 파랑의 주기에 대하여 플로팅 폰툰의 피치가속도와 상부구조물의 수평가속도를 구하였으며, 동-수역학 해석을 통하여 실험가속도와 비교하고자 하였다. 입사 파랑의 주기가 커질수록 피치 및 상부구조물의 가속도 응답이 작아지는 양상을 보였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.11-19
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• 1991

음성 신호의 합성기법들 중에서 파형코딩법은 음질이 우수하기 때문에 분석에 의한 합성법으로 많이 사용하고 있다. 그렇지만 음원과 성도의특성을 분리하지 않고 파형의 잉여분만을 제거한 후에 파 형자체를 저장하기 때문에 규칙에 의한 합성기법으로 사용하기에는 어려움이 많다. 본 논문은 파형코딩 법 중 선형 PCM 코딩법으로 저장된 음성파형에 대해 피치를 양분할 수 있는 주기반분법을 제안하여 파형자체의 음원을 분리하지 않고 피치 주기를 변경시킬 수 있는 새로운 피치 변경법을 제안하였다. 따 라서 음질이 우수한 파형코딩 합성법으로 규칙에 의한 합성을 수행할 수 있다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.472-476
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• 2023

Fundamental frequency/pitch period are major characteristics of speech signals. They are used in many speech applications like speech coding, speech recognition, speaker identification, and so on. In this paper, some of inflection points are used to estimate the pitch which is the inverse of the fundamental frequency. The inflection points are defined as points where local maxima, local minima or the slope changes occur. The speech signal is preprocessed to remove unnecessary inflection points due to the high frequency components using a low pass filter. Only the inflection points from local maxima are used to get the pitch period. While the existing pitch estimation methods process speech signals in blockwise, the proposed method detects the inflection points in sample and produces the pitch period/fundamental frequency estimates along the time. Computer simulation shows the usefulness of the proposed method as a fundamental frequency estimator.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.481-484
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• 2006

Pitch period detection algorithms are applied to various speech signal processing fields such as speech recognition, speaker identification, speech analysis and synthesis. Furthermore, many pitch detection algorithms of time and frequency domain have been studied until now. AMDF(average magnitude difference function) ,which is one of pitch period detection algorithms, chooses a time interval from the valley point to the valley point as the pitch period. AMDF has a fast computation capacity, but in selection of valley point to detect pitch period, complexity of the algorithm is increased. In order to apply pitch period detection algorithms to the real world, they have robust prosperities against generated noise in the subway environment etc. In this paper we proposed the modified AMDF algorithm which detects the global minimum valley point as the pitch period of speech signals and used speech signals of noisy environments as test signals.

• 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 Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.10
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• pp.2725-2736
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• 1998

In this paper. we present a new pitch determination method for speech analysis. namely VFF(Variable Forgetting Factor) based. by using the WRLS-VFF-VT(Weighted Recursive Least Square-Variable Forgetting Factor-Variable Threshold) algorithm. A proposed method uses VFF to identify the glottal closure points which correspond to the instants of the main excitation pulses for voiced speech. The modified EGG

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.270-278
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• 1993

This paper is presented the phonetic segmentation alg9rithm of the Korean speech signals which is finded the exact pitch using the super resoluton pitch determination and is compared corss-correlation to threshold each pitch period. The features of the proposed algorithm are infinite resolution and high reliability, and also can separate transient or silent segment. The algorithm is instrumental to speech processing applications which require vector quantization and speech recognition. The presented algorithm is implemented by 386-MATLAB on PC 386/DX and is verified the exact pitch period and the phonetic segmentation of speech signals.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.149-152
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• 2000

음성신호처리분야에서 피치시점 검출은 음성 합성시에 여기원의 특성을 나타내어 음질의 자연성을 결정한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 음색 변경시에 운율조절에 필요한 피치시점 검출법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 시간영역에서 직접 처리하기 때문에 피치동기분석이 용이하고 다른 영역으로의 변환과정이 불필요하다. 또한 기존의 피치시점검출 방법에서는 결정논리를 실험적인 문턱 값이나 무게치를 적용하여 처리하는 반면에 제안한 방법은 분석구간별로 얻어지는 주기적인 성문특성을 적용하여서 정확한 피치시점을 검출할 수 있었다

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.1587-1594
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• 1994

The pitch predictor is one of the most important part for the robust tree coder. The hybrid backward pitch adapation which is a combination of a block adaptation and a recursive adaptation is used for the pitch predictor. In order to improve the error performance and track the pitch period change of the input speech, it is proposed to smooth the input of the pitch predictor. The smoother with three taps can have fixed coefficients or variable coefficients depending on the estimated autocorrelation function of the output of the pitch synthesizer. The inclusion of a variable smoother can track the pitch period change within a block and reduce the effect of channel errors.