• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1998년도 학술발표대회 논문집 제17권 1호
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• pp.147-150
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• 1998

In the case of speech synthesis, the waveform coding method with high quality is mainly used to the synthesis by analysis. Because the parameters of this coding method are not classified as both excitation and vocal tract parameters, it is difficult to apply the waveform coding method to the synthesis by rule. Thus, in order to apply the waveform coding method to the synthesis by rule, a pitch alteration is required for the prosody control. In the speech synthesis method by the conventional PSOLA technique, applying symmetric window function to asymmetric speech waveform, it occurs the unbalance phenomenon of energy according to the overlapped degree of pitch interval adjustment. In this paper to overcome the unbalance phenomenon of energy, we proposed a new method that can convert asymmetric waveform to symmetric one by time-frequency conversion. As a result, we can obtain an average spectrum distortion ratio with 6.38% according to the pitch alteration ratio.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1991년도 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.45-49
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• 1991

In area of the speech synthesis, the waveform coding with high quality are mainly used to the synthesis by analysis. However, it is difficult to applying the waveform coding to the synthesis by rule, because the parameters of this coding are not classified as either excitation parameters and vocal tract parameters. In this paper, we proposed a new pitch change method that can alter the pitch periods in the waveform coding. The proposed method expands the pitch period by the LPC synthesis method, and then the period is compressed by the waveform halving technique. Thus, it is possible that the waveform coding is carried out the synthesis by rule in speech processing.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.134-142
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 40 kHz 초음파 신호를 입 주변에 쏘고, 되돌아오는 초음파 신호를 이용해 음성신호를 합성하는 방법을 소개하고 성능을 평가하였다. 발성하고 있는 입주변에 초음파를 방사하게 되면, 입술, 턱, 뺨 등의 움직임으로 인한 변위로 도플러 현상이 발생하고, 이에 따라 반사 신호에는 본래의 주파수 성분과는 다른 도플러 주파수가 관찰되는데, 본 논문에서는 이러한 도플러 주파수를 이용하여 음성 파라메터를 추정하도록 하였다. 음성합성에 앞서서 초음파 도플러 신호와 음성 신호 간의 상관관계를 각 주파수 별로 분석하였으며, 이로부터 초음파 도플러 신호를 이용한 음성 신호의 합성 가능성을 살펴보았다. 변환에는 초음파 도플러의 정적, 동적 특성을 함께 반영한 특징 변수를 사용하였으며 결합-혼합 가우시안 기법을 이용하여 음성 파라메터로 변환하였다. 5명의 피 실험자를 이용한 음성 합성 실험에서 필터뱅크 에너지 값을 초음파신호의 특징변수로, LPC(Linear Predictive Coefficient) 켑스트럼 계수를 음성 변수로 사용하는 경우 가장 우수한 변환 성능을 나타내었다. 음성신호에서 추출한 여기신호를 이용하여 합성음을 생성하고, 이를 청취하였을 때 72.2 %의 평균 인식율이 얻어짐을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.89-95
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• 2016

The purpose of this work is to analyze and synthesize the pseudo-periodicity of voice using a source model. A speech signal has periodic characteristics; however, it is not completely periodic. While periodicity contributes significantly to the production of prosody, emotional status, etc., pseudo-periodicity contributes to the distinctions between normal and abnormal status, the naturalness of normal speech, etc. Measurement of pseudo-periodicity is typically performed through parameters such as jitter and shimmer. For studying the pseudo-periodic nature of voice in a controlled environment, through collected natural voice, we can only observe the distributions of the parameters, which are limited by the size of collected data. If we can generate voice samples in a controlled manner, experiments that are more diverse can be conducted. In this study, the probability distributions of vowel pitch variation are obtained from the speech signal. Based on the probability distribution of vocal folds, pulses with a designated jitter value are synthesized. Then, the target and re-analyzed jitter values are compared to check the validity of the method. It was found that the jitter synthesis method is useful for normal voice synthesis.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.614-620
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• 2019

본 논문은 전역 스타일 토큰(Global Style Token, GST)을 사용하는 종단 간(end-to-end) 감정 음성 합성 시스템의 성능을 높이기 위해 각 감정의 스타일 벡터를 효과적으로 결정하는 방법을 제안한다. 기존 방법은 각 감정을 표현하기 위해 한 개의 대푯값만을 사용하므로 감정 표현의 풍부함 측면에서 크게 제한된다. 이를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 k-평균 알고리즘을 사용하여 다수의 대표 스타일을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 청취 평가를 통해 제안 방법을 이용해 추출한 각 감정의 대표 스타일이 기존 방법에 비해 감정 표현 정도가 뛰어나며, 감정 간의 차이를 명확히 구별할 수 있음을 보였다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.49-55
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• 2018

This paper aims to describe a knowledge-based pronunciation generation system for French. It has been reported that a rule-based pronunciation generation system outperforms most of the data-driven ones for French; however, only a few related studies are available due to existing language barriers. We provide basic information about the French language from the point of view of the relationship between orthography and pronunciation, and then describe our knowledge-based pronunciation generation system, which consists of morphological analysis, Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging, grapheme-to-phoneme generation, and phone-to-phone generation. The evaluation results show that the word error rate of POS tagging, based on a sample of 1,000 sentences, is 10.70% and that of phoneme generation, using 130,883 entries, is 2.70%. This study is expected to contribute to the development and evaluation of speech synthesis or speech recognition systems for French.

• 음성과학
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.85-95
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• 2003

In speech signal processing, it is very important to detect the pitch exactly in speech recognition, synthesis and analysis. If we exactly pitch detect in speech signal, in the analysis, we can use the pitch to obtain properly the vocal tract parameter. It can be used to easily change or to maintain the naturalness and intelligibility of quality in speech synthesis and to eliminate the personality for speaker-independence in speech recognition. In this paper, we proposed a new pitch detection algorithm. First, positive center clipping is process by using the incline of speech in order to emphasize pitch period with a glottal component of removed vocal tract characteristic in time domain. And rough formant envelope is computed through peak-fitting spectrum of original speech signal infrequence domain. Using the roughed formant envelope, obtain the smoothed formant envelope through calculate the linear interpolation. As well get the flattened harmonics waveform with the algebra difference between spectrum of original speech signal and smoothed formant envelope. Inverse fast fourier transform (IFFT) compute this flattened harmonics. After all, we obtain Residual signal which is removed vocal tract element. The performance was compared with LPC and Cepstrum, ACF. Owing to this algorithm, we have obtained the pitch information improved the accuracy of pitch detection and gross error rate is reduced in voice speech region and in transition region of changing the phoneme.

• 음성과학
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.187-200
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• 2006

The speech synthesis technology is widely used and its application area is also being broadened to an automatic response service, a learning system for handicapped person, etc. However, the sound quality of the speech synthesizer has not yet reached to the satisfactory level of users. To make a synthesized speech, the existing synthesizer generates rhythms only by the interval information such as space and comma or by several punctuation marks such as a question mark and an exclamation mark so that it is not easy to generate natural rhythms of people even though it is based on mass speech database. To make up for the problem, there is a way to select rhythms after processing language from a higher level information. This paper proposes a method for generating tags for controling rhythms by analyzing the meaning of sentence with speech situation information. We use the Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) [4] which analyzes the meaning of sentence with speech situation information considering the sentence prior to the given one, the situation of a conversation, the relationship among people in the conversation, etc. In this study, we generate Semantic Speech Control Tag (SSCT) by the result of SFG's meaning analysis and the voice wave analysis.

• 한국HCI학회논문지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.25-35
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 한국어 문장 유형을 자동으로 분류하는 방법을 제안하고 한국어-수화 변환과 한국어 음성 합성 분야에서 문장 유형 정보가 자연스러운 수화 표현과 음성 표현을 생성하는데 이용되는 과정을 보인다. 한국어에서 문장 유형은 크게 평서문, 명령문, 청유문, 의문문, 감탄문의 다섯 가지로 분류되는데, 기존의 방법으로는 대화체 문장에서 동일한 문장이 여러 가지 유형으로 해석되는 중의성의 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 문장 내에서 형태소 및 구문단위의 다양한 단서들을 활용하여 이를 해결하는 방법을 제안하며, 실험 결과 본 논문에서 제시한 문장 유형 분류 시스템이 만족할 만한 성능을 보이는 것을 확인하였다. 이를 이용하여 한국어-수화 변환 시스템에서 문장 유형에 따라 수화의 비수지신호가 다르게 표현되는 현상을 처리하는 과정과 한국어 음성 합성 시스템에서 문장 유형에 따라 문장의 문미 억양이 변하는 현상을 처리하는 과정을 제시한다. 문장 유형 정보를 음성 합성과 수화 자동 생성에 이용하는 것은 기존에는 연구되지 않았던 방법으로, 좀 더 자연스러운 음성과 수화 표현을 생성하는데 중요한 역할을 할 것으로 기대한다.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.115-120
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• 2001

In this paper, we synthesized vowel /ae/ with voice synthesis program of Dr. Speech Science, and we also synthesized pathologic vowel /ae/ by some parameters such as high frequency gain (HFG), low frequency gain(LFG), pitch flutter(PF) which represents jitter value and flutter of amplitude(FA) which represents shimmer value, and grade ranked as mild, moderate and severe respectively. And then we analysed all pathologic voice by analysis program of Dr. Speech Science. We expect that this synthesized pathologic voices are useful for understanding the parameter such as noise, jitter and shimmer and feedback effect to patient with voice disorder.