• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.439-449
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• 2016

The methodology of synthetic unit hydrograph using geomorphic characteristics was suggested. Six geomorphic components over 19 watersheds were used to estimate synthetic unit hydrograph and the test watersheds were classified into two groups on the basis of the area of $200km^2$. The regression formulas between standardized geomorphic characteristics for each group and peak quantities of specific streamflow and time of representative unit hydrograph were suggested and the Nash and the Clark unit hydrographs were derived. For verifying the derived unit hydrographs, the resulting hydrographs were compared with the ones using the existing Clark unit hydrographs based on the empirical parameter estimation for the 145 storm events during 2010 to 2011 for the additional six watersheds. The results showed the relatively higher performance over the existing synthetic unit hydrograph methods, which could be a contribution to the hydrologic estimation in ungauged watersheds.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.31 no.1B
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• pp.47-55
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• 2011

This study suggests new synthetic unit hydrograph method considering hydrodynamic characteristic on the basin. The suggested method based on width function GIUH, and the procedure is summarized as follows; 1) Draw up a travel distance distribution map (width function) which is raster of length between from center of individual cells to the outlet by GIS. 2) Calculation of travel time distribution map (rescaled width function) by hydrodynamic parameters and travel distance distribution map. 3) Derivation of IUH and Duration UH from rescaled width function. 4) Comparison of shape of UH between suggested method and existing synthetic unit hydrograph methods. The target basins are selected Ipyeong and Tanbu subwatershed in the Bocheong Basin. The target basins are similar scale (watershed area), but different drainage structure (drainage density et al.). Therefore we anticipate that there are different hydrologic response functions because different hydrodynamic characteristics. As a result of derivation of UH, existing synthetic unit hydrograph methods are similar shape of UHs about Ipyeong and Tanbu watersheds, but the suggested method is different shape of ones. As a result of application to observed data, the peak discharge by suggested method is similar to existing synthetic unit hydrograph methods, but the peak time is well correspondence between those. Henceforth, if the suggested method combines with the rational velocity estimation method, it is useful method for synthetic of UH in ungauged watershed.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.50-56
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• 1998

본 논문은 자동 음소 분할기의 음소 경계 오류를 보상하기 위한 후처리 (Postprocessing)에 관한 연구이다. 이는 현재 음성 합성을 위한 음성/언어학적 연구, 운율 모델링, 합성단위 자동 생성 연구 등에 대량의 음소 단위 분절과 음소 레이블링된 데이터의 필요성에 따른 연구의 일환이다. 특히 수작업에 의한 분절 및 레이블링은 일관성의 유지가 어렵고 긴 시간이 소요되므로 자동 분절 기술이 더욱 중요시 되고 있다. 따라서, 본 논문은 자동 분절 경계의 오류 범위를 줄일 수 있는 후처리기를 제안하여 자동 분절 결과를 직접 합성 단위로 사용할 수 있고 대량의 합성용 운율 데이터 베이스 구축에 유용함을 기술한다. 제안된 후처리기는 수작업으로 조정된 데이터의 특징 벡터를 다층 신경회로망 (MLP:Multi-layer perceptron)을 통해 학습을 한 후, ETRI(Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute)에서 개발된 음성 언어 번역 시스템을 이용한 자동 분절 결과와 후처리기인 MLP를 이용하여 새로운 음소 경계를 추출한다. 고립단어로 발성된 합성 데이터베이스에서 후처리기로 보정된 분절 결과는 음성 언어 번역 시스템의 분할율보 다 약 25%의 향상된 성능을 보였으며, 절대 오류(｜Hand label position-Auto label position ｜)는 약 39%가 향상되었다. 이는 MLP를 이용한 후처리기로 자동 분절 오류의 범위를 줄 일 수 있고, 대량의 합성용 운율 데이터 베이스 구축 및 합성 단위의 자동생성에 이용될 수 있음을 보이는 것이다.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.547-558
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• 2013

Improved methodology of Synthetic Unit Hydrograph (SUH) utilized generally in hydrologic design work was suggested. In this study, regression analysis between peak hydrological data and geospatial data was applied to estimate specific peak flow and peak time for determining shape of SUH. Regression formulas for specific peak flow with respect to shape factors show higher coefficient of determination (0.73~0.81) than the ones with geospatial components only (0.52~0.69). The areal limitation of unit hydrograph application is regarded as 500~700 $km^2$. The validation through rainfall-runoff simulation shows encouraging results that relative error is 1.7~29.0%(Avg. 11.6%) for the case of using SUH developed in this study and 35.0~ 64.9% (Avg. 46.7%) for the SUH in the previous study except for the extraordinary cases.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 1985.07a
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• pp.7-16
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• 1985

본 연구는 유역 추적에 자주 쓰이는 합성단위 유량도(synthetic unit hydrograph) 방법의 하나인 Snyder 방법에 있어서의 계수를 남한강수계에서 재조정하는 과정(procedure)을 제시하였다. 그 과정을 간략하게 설명하며, 이전에 구한 남한강 수계에서의 snyder 계수를 초기치로 하여 HEC-1 program을 이용하여 계수를 재조정한다. 이와 같은 과정을 통하여 재조정된 계수는 그 전의 계수에 의한 합성단위 유량도보다 지체시간($$)이 작아지고 첨두(peak)값이 커지는 특성을 가지고 있다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.26 no.8
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• pp.403-408
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• 2007

In a large corpus-based speech synthesizer, a break, which is a parameter influencing the naturalness and intelligibility, is used as an important feature during a unit selection process. Japanese is a language having intonations, which ate indicated by the relative differences in pitch heights and the APs(Accentual Phrases) are placed according to the changes of the accents while a break occurs on a boundary of the APs. Although a break can be predicted by using J-ToBI(Japanese-Tones and Break Indices), which is a rule-based or statistical approach, it is very difficult to predict a break exactly due to the flexibility. Therefore, in this paper, a method is to conduct a unit search by dividing breaks into two types, such as a fixed break and a flexible break, in order to use the advantages of a large-scale corpus, which includes various types of prosodies. As a result of an experiment, the proposed unit selection method contributed itself to enhance the naturalness of synthesized speeches.

• 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.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.627-640
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• 2001

Generally, the synthetic unit hydrograph method is presented to estimate the design flood in the ungaged watershed. However, due to the lack of rainfall-runoff data, the models developed in other countries such as U.S.A. and Japan have been widely used in Korea. Therefore, it may be essential to develope the rainfall-runoff model suitable for the hydrological char-acteristics in Korea. In this study, the representative unit hydrographs are derived from rainfall-runoff data at 19 basins in Selma-Cheon and 3-IHP experimental watersheds using ridge-regression method and Nash model. And a new synthetic unit hydrograph for Korea is suggested by integrating the described results and previous studies on unit hydrograph. The newly developed method is represented as two regression forms with three independent variables of watershed area, channel length, and channel slope by multiple regression analysis is carried out for each watershed, the coefficients of determination are not improved in all cases compared out for each watershed, the coefficients of determination are not improved n all cased the synthetic unit hydrograph for each watershed. Therefore, when the new method is applied to some watersheds, the result analyzed for all data has to be used.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.159-165
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a new pre-selection of candidate units that is suitable for the unit selection based Japanese TTS system. General pre-selection method performed by calculating a context-dependent cost within IP (Intonation Phrase). Different from other languages, however. Japanese has an accent represented as the height of a relative pitch, and several words form a single accentual phrase. Also. the prosody in Japanese changes in accentual phrase units. By reflecting such prosodic change in pre-selection. the qualify of synthesized speech can be improved. Furthermore, by calculating a context-dependent cost within accentual phrase, synthesis speed can be improved than calculating within intonation phrase. The proposed method defines AP. analyzes AP in context and performs pre-selection using accentual phrase matching which calculates CCL (connected context length) of the Phoneme's candidates that should be synthesized in each accentual phrase. The baseline system used in the proposed method is VoiceText, which is a synthesizer of Voiceware. Evaluations were made on perceptual error (intonation error, concatenation mismatch error) and synthesis time. Experimental result showed that the proposed method improved the qualify of synthesized speech. as well as shortened the synthesis time.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.10-16
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• 1999

In this paper, we propose a concatenation-based speech synthesizer using CVC(consonant-vowel-consonant) speech segments extracted from an undesigned continuous speech corpus. Natural synthetic speech can be generated by a proper modelling of coarticulation effects between phonemes and the use of natural prosodic variations. In general, CVC synthesis unit shows smaller acoustic degradation of speech quality since concatenation points are located in the consonant region and it can properly model the coarticulation of vowels that are effected by surrounding consonants. In this paper, we analyze the characteristics and the number of required synthesis units of 4 types of speech synthesis methods that use CVC synthesis units. Furthermore, we compare the speech quality of the 4 types and propose a new synthesis method based on the most promising type in terms of speech quality and implementability. Then we implement the method using the speech corpus and synthesize various examples. The CVC speech segments that are not in the speech corpus are substituted by demonstrate speech segments. Experiments demonstrate that CVC speech segments extracted from about 100 Mbytes continuous speech corpus can produce high quality synthetic speech.