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The Effect of the Disturbing Wave on the Speech Intelligibility of the Eavesdropping Sound of a Window Glass (교란파가 유리창 진동음의 음성명료도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Seock-Hyun;Kim, Hee-Dong;Heo, Wook
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.17 no.9
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    • pp.888-894
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    • 2007
  • The speech sound is detected by the vibration measurement of the window glass. In this study, we investigate the effect of the disturbing waves by background noise and window shaker excitation on the speech intelligibility of the detected sound. Based upon Modulation Transfer Function(MTF), speech intelligibility of the sound is objectively estimated by Speech Transmission Index(STI) As the level of the disturbing wave varies, variation of the speech intelligibility is examined. Experimental result reveals how STI is influenced by the level and frequency characteristics of the disturbing wave. By using a customized window shaker for disturbing sound, we evaluate the efficiency and the frequency characteristics of the anti-eavesdropping system. The purpose of the study is to provide useful information to prevent the eavesdropping through the window glass.

Research on Animation Sound (애니메이션 사운드에 관한 연구)

  • Lim, Woon-Ju
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.127-134
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    • 2007
  • The biggest purpose of sound is communication with spectator in animation. Animation sound delivers background to spectator more naturally through music age enemy, space enemy of fantastic, realistic work and use rhythm and rhythm according to smoke action of character and character delineation and specific character of character, atmosphere as is intimate to spectator. This research achieved research of connection literature data to grasp the importance of role and function that sound reaches in animation reflex. Because is companionate with reflex at animation sound manufacture process with this, in work whole atmosphere in Naereotibeu's structure progress of the event smoothly connect and focused to if make video and interaction of sound smoothly and deliver to spectator.

Investigation of the sound insulation performance of walls and flanking noises in classrooms using field measurements (현장실험을 통한 학교교실의 벽체 차음성능 및 측로전달소음 조사)

  • Ryu, Da-Jung;Park, Chan-Jae;Haan, Chan-Hoon
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.36 no.5
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    • pp.329-337
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    • 2017
  • In USA and UK, the standards of both reverberation time and background noise level have been established for the appropriate aural environment in classrooms. In order to realize this, guidelines for architectural planning and interior finishing have been also suggested. However, in Korea, there has hardly been any guidelines for satisfying background noise criteria and investigation about sound insulation performance of current walls of classrooms. The present study investigates the structure of outer wall and walls between classrooms of two middle schools in order to analyze the sound insulation performance against both exterior and interior noises. Acoustic parameters including transmission loss, standardized sound level difference, and signal to noise ratio have been measured and analyzed for sound insulation performance of walls and flanking noises. As a result, concerning the walls in between classrooms, it was found that walls of dry construction have greater sound insulation performance rather than the walls of wet construction especially in mid and high frequency bands. Also, It was revealed that thermopane, insulated pair glass, of outer walls, has greater sound insulation performance than the double window consisted of two single pane glass. Regarding flanking noises, the standards were exceeded when all windows, or windows and doors front onto corridor were opened. It denotes that students could be disturbed with the sound transmission by the interior noises.

The Design of Object-based 3D Audio Broadcasting System (객체기반 3차원 오디오 방송 시스템 설계)

  • 강경옥;장대영;서정일;정대권
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.22 no.7
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    • pp.592-602
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    • 2003
  • This paper aims to describe the basic structure of novel object-based 3D audio broadcasting system To overcome current uni-directional audio broadcasting services, the object-based 3D audio broadcasting system is designed for providing the ability to interact with important audio objects as well as realistic 3D effects based on the MPEG-4 standard. The system is composed of 6 sub-modules. The audio input module collects the background sound object, which is recored by 3D microphone, and audio objects, which are recorded by monaural microphone or extracted through source separation method. The sound scene authoring module edits the 3D information of audio objects such as acoustical characteristics, location, directivity and etc. It also defines the final sound scene with a 3D background sound, which is intended to be delievered to a receiving terminal by producer. The encoder module encodes scene descriptors and audio objects for effective transmission. The decoder module extracts scene descriptors and audio objects from decoding received bistreams. The sound scene composition module reconstructs the 3D sound scene with scene descriptors and audio objects. The 3D sound renderer module maximizes the 3D sound effects through adapting the final sound to the listner's acoustical environments. It also receives the user's controls on audio objects and sends them to the scene composition module for changing the sound scene.

Postprandial Epigastric Fullness and Pyloric Valve Disturbance in Patients with Functional Dyspepsia;Analysis of Bowel Sounds and Electrogastrography (기능성(機能性) 소화불량증(消化不良症) 환자(患者)의 식후(食後) 심하비만과 pyloric valve의 기능장애(機能障碍);장음과 위전도를 중심으로)

  • Yoon, Sang-Hyub
    • The Journal of Internal Korean Medicine
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.769-778
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    • 2007
  • Background & Object : Postprandial epigastric fullness is one of common symptoms in functional dyspepsia, but its pathophysiological mechanism has still been unknown. In this study, its association between postprandial epigastric fullness and pyloric valve disturbance was studied through analysis of bowel sounds and electrogastrography. Methods : Bowel sounds and electrogastrography were recorded together for fasting 15 min and postprandial 40 min. Parameters of bowel soundincluding motility index, sound to sound interval, standard deviation of sound to sound interval, sounds per minute, % of bowel sound, sound length, intensity, dominant frequency of sounds, and postprandial / fasting ratio of dominant frequency of sounds were analyzed with a specialized program. By electrogastrography, regularity of slow waves and power ratio were obtained. Results : Significances of bowel sounds appeared in motility index (p=0.046), dominant frequency of fasting (p=0.048), postprandial (p=0.003), and the ratio of postprandial/fasting (p=0.000); those of EGG parameters were shown in postprandial regularity of slow waves (p=0.006) and power ratio (p=0.011). Conclusion : Pyloric valve disturbance was a cause of postprandial epigastric fullness in patients with functional dyspepsia. Analysis of bowel sound might be useful in diagnosing its existence.

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Theory of Acoustic Quanta and its Application on Sound Design (음향 양자 이론의 사운드 디자인적 응용)

  • Koo, Jahwan
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.19 no.9
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    • pp.420-426
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    • 2018
  • Acoustic Quanta, which British Physicist Dennis Gabor created, is the theoretical background for granular synthesis and has influenced many computer music artists and sound designers. Acoustic Quanta is a very short sound burst, lasting only 1 to 100 ms. Granular synthesis is a sound synthesis technique which slices original sound into sound grains and re-combines them into a new acoustic event. Concept of sound grain is borrowed from the acoustic quanta. Granular Synthesis can make very unique sound, so that it can be useful in many ways, especially in sound design. This paper presents concept of acoustic quanta and granular synthesis. It then discusses making a synthesizer as an implementation of synchronous granular synthesis and its applications on sound design. As a result, the duration of acoustic quanta should range between 0.239 and 33.367 ms, in consideration of audible frequencies, which is different from the original concept of the acoustic quanta.

Parallel sound change between segmental and suprasegmental properties: An individual level observation

  • Lee, Hyunjung
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.23-29
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    • 2016
  • The present study tested if individual speakers showing great sound change in segments (i.e., vowels and fricatives) also had innovative changing patterns in suprasegmental properties (i.e., lexical pitch accents) in Kyungsang Korean. The acoustic analysis at a group level first confirmed the presence of group level differences in distinguishing /ɨ-ʌ/ and /s-s'/ both of which had different phonemic distinction from Seoul Korean. Younger speakers had more innovative segmental change than older speakers, and even within the younger generation, female speakers produced more innovative phonetic variants than male speakers. Regarding the individual observation within the younger group, the younger speakers with large acoustic distinction in vowels and fricatives also showed acoustically less distinct accent patterns, indicating the innovative sound change pattern consistent across segment and suprasegmental properties. The group and individual observations suggested that linguistic innovators introduced new phonetic variants with consistent degree of changing pattern between segment and suprasegmental properties.

Sound Source Localization Technique at a Long Distance for Intelligent Service Robot (지능형 서비스 로봇을 위한 원거리 음원 추적 기술)

  • Lee Ji-Yeoun;Hahn Min-Soo
    • MALSORI
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    • no.57
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    • pp.85-97
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    • 2006
  • This paper suggests an algorithm that can estimate the direction of the sound source in real time. The algorithm uses the time difference and sound intensity information among the recorded sound source by four microphones. Also, to deal with noise of robot itself, the Kalman filter is implemented. The proposed method can take shorter execution time than that of an existing algorithm to fit the real-time service robot. Also, using the Kalman filter, signal ratio relative to background noise, SNR, is approximately improved to 8 dB. And the estimation result of azimuth shows relatively small error within the range of ${\pm}7$ degree.

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Soundscape Study In Bus Stations (버스터미널의 사운드 스케이프)

  • 박현구;송혁전;송민정
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.1013-1013
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    • 2004
  • Soundscape design is applied for the purpose of expressing the characteristics of places, by supplying suitable background sound for various places expressing their identity. Bus stations are a place for aggregating people using transportation. That is, people go into a station, buy a ticket, and wait for departure or for other passengers. Therefore, they need to create a more comfortable sound environment. This study aims to make bus stations a comfortable place acoustically for users. In this study, analysis on behavior at various locations in the space was performed. Measurements were taken on the approaching path, waiting place, departure and arrival platforms for sound levels and frequency characteristics. In addition, on acoustic specialists evaluation, using questionnaires, was also performed ambient noise, information broadcasting and users dialogue.

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Effect of amplitude modulation in wind turbine noise on noise perception and annoyance (풍력 발전기 소음의 진폭변조가 소음 인지와 불쾌감에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Seung-Hoon;Kim, Kyu-Tae;Lee, Soo-Gab
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.491-491
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    • 2009
  • Wind turbines produce aerodynamic noise which fluctuate periodically at a blade passing frequency. This sound characteristic is called amplitude modulation, or swishing sound. Several previous studies claimed that this amplitude modulation has a possibility to increase noise annoyance. Thus, this study performed a listening test to find the relationship between the amplitude modulation in wind turbine noise on noise annoyance. The stimuli for the listening test was recorded from a 1.5MW wind turbine in Jeju island. The result of the listening test shows that the amplitude modulation in wind turbine noise significantly increase noise annoyance. Moreover, this study analytically examined the effect of amplitude modulation on noise perception. The result indicates that amplitude modulated sound can be easily perceived even though the background noise level is higher than the sound level of the signal.

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