• 음성과학
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.17-29
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• 2000

The STC(Sinusoidal Transform Coding) is a vocoding technique that uses a sinusoidal speech model to obtain high- quality speech at low data rate. It models and synthesizes the speech signal with fundamental frequency and its harmonic elements in frequency domain. To reduce the data rate, it is necessary to represent the sinusoidal amplitudes and phases with as small number of peaks as possible while maintaining the speech quality. As a basic research to develop a low-rate speech coding algorithm using the sinusoidal model, in this paper, we investigate the speech quality depending on the number of sinusoids. By varying the number of spectral peaks from 5 to 40 speech signals are reconstructed, and then their qualities are evaluated using spectral envelope distortion measure and MOS(Mean Opinion Score). Two approaches are used to obtain the spectral peaks: one is a conventional STFT (Short-Time Fourier Transform), and the other is a multiresolutional analysis method.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제23권4E호
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• pp.125-133
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a critical banded wavelet packet-based spectral subtraction for speech enhancement. Critical banded wavelet packet, which reflects the human auditory system, may lead to minimization of intelligibility loss and quality improvement of the enhanced speech in the spectral domain, when combined with an appropriate spectral subtraction gain function. The proposed method shows better performance than the conventional one in comparative assessments. We also show that, for effective evaluation of enhanced speech, it is essential to consider the characteristics of speech quality measures.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.104-111
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 향상된 최소값 제어 재귀 평균 기법 (improved minima controlled recursive averaging, IMCRA) 알고리즘의 잡음 전력 추정성능을 향상 시키기 위한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기존의 IMCRA은 주파수 특성이 빠르게 변화하는 비정상적인 환경과 낮은 SNR을 갖는 상황에서 잡음 전력 추정에 직접적으로 영향을 미치는 음성 검출기의 성능이 강인하지 못한 단점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 강인한 음성 검출 성능을 위해서 기존 IMCRA의 음성 검출기에 전역 음성 부재 확률을 적용한 음성 향상 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘의 성능 평가는 음성의 perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ)와 composite measure를 통한 음질을 평가하였다. 실험 결과 다양한 잡음 환경 (car, white, babble)에서 전역 음성 부재 확률을 적용한 IMCRA의 음성 향상 기법이 향상된 결과를 보여주었다. 특히, 비정상잡음 환경인 babble 5dB에서 PESQ 0.026, composite measure 0.029의 향상된 음질을 나타내었다.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1994년도 FIFTH WESTERN PACIFIC REGIONAL ACOUSTICS CONFERENCE SEOUL KOREA
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• pp.1098-1103
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• 1994

In this paper, we design and implement the Korean speech synthesis by rule system. This system is applied the multiband excitation signal on voiced sounds. The multiband excitation signal is obtained by mixing impluse spectrum and which noise spectrum. We find that the quality of synthesized speech is improved using this application. Also, we classify the voiced sounds by cepstral euclidian distance measure for reducing overhead memory. The representative excitation signal of the same group's voiced sounds is used as excitation signal on synthesis. This method does not affect the quality of synthesized speech. As the result of experiment, this method eliminates the "buzziness" of synthesized speech and reduces the spectral distortion of synthesized speech.ed speech.

• 음성과학
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.137-147
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• 2003

Speech synthesis can classify by synthesis way, that is waveform coding, source coding and mixture coding. Specially, waveform coding is suitable for high quality synthesis. However, it is not desirable by synthesis techniques of syllable or phoneme unit because it do not separate and handles excitation and formant part. Therefore, there is a need for pitch alteration method applied in synthesis by the rule in waveform coding. This study propose about pitch alteration method that use spectrum scaling after do to flatten spectra by subband linear approximation to minimize spectrum distortion. This paper show evaluation whether show excellency of some measure compared with LPC, Cepstrum, lifter function and method that propose. estimation method seeks distribution of each flattened signal and measured degree of flattened spectra Signal flattened is normalized, So that highest point amounts to zero, and distribution of signal ,whose average is zero, is calculated. this show result that measure the spectrum distortion rate to estimate performance of method that propose. The average spectrum distortion rate was kept below the average 2.12%, so the method that propose is superiors than existent method.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제30권7호
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• pp.383-389
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 음성향상을 위하여 환경잡음분류를 적용한 향상된 음성부재확률 추정방법을 제안한다. 기존의 음성부재확률 추정방법에서는 마이크로폰 입력신호와 추정된 잡음신호 기반의 a posteriori SNR값에 문턱값을 적용하여 음성부재확률을 구하는데 필요한 음성부재의 a priori 확률을 도출하였다. 본 논문에서 제안된 알고리즘은 보다 효과적인 음성부재확률 추정을 위하여 고정된 문턱값과 스무딩 (smoothing)파라미터를 사용하는 기존의 방법과는 달리 잡음분류 알고리즘인 가우시안 혼합 모델 (Gaussian mixture model)을 사용하여 잡음마다 최적화된 파라미터를 적용한다. 제안된 음성 향상 기법은 ITU-T P.862 PESQ (perceptual evaluation of speech quality)와 composite measure를 이용하여 다양한 환경에서 평가하였으며, 제안된 알고리즘이 기존의 음성부재확률 추정방법보다 향상된 결과를 보였다.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1991년도 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.67-72
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• 1991

This paper evaluates thequality of synthesized speech by rule using the LPC CD in the objective measure and then compares the result with the subjective analysis. By evaluating the quality of synthesized speech by rule objectively. We have tried to resolve the problems (Evaluation time or size expansion, variables within the analysis results) that arise when the evaluation is done subjectively. Also by comparing intelligibility-the index for the subjective quality evaluation of synthesized speech by rule-with evaluation results obtained using MOS and the objective evaluation. We have proved the validity of the objective analysis and thus provides a guide that would be useful when R&D and marketing of synthesis by rule method is done.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제27권4A호
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• pp.310-315
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• 2002

본 논문은 객관적 음질 평가법으로 웨이블렛 변환을 이용한 향상된 바크 코히어런스 함수 (Wavelet based Bark Coherence Function : WBCF)를 제안한다. 바크 코히어런스 함수 (Bark Coherence Function : BCF)는 심리 음향 영역에서 코히어런스 함수를 정의함으로서 음성 통신 시스템의 아날로그 부분에 의하여 발생할 수 있는 선형 왜곡에 강한 객관적 음질 평가법이다. VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)와 같은 패킷 기반의 음성 전달 시스템은 가변 지연등이 발생 될 수 있는데, 이것은 원음과 왜곡음의 정확한 시간축 정렬을 불가능하게 하여 기존의 객관적 음질 평가법의 성능을 저하시킨다. 제안된 WBCF는 고주파 영역에서 시간 분해능이 높으며, 저주파 영역에서 주파수 분해능이 높은 웨이블렛 변환을 사용한 후 BCF를 계산하여 VoIP 시스템에서의 객관적 음질을 평가한다. 주/객관적 음질 평가 실험을 통하여 WBCF가 ITU-T 권고안인 Perceptual Speech Quality Measure (PSQM)에 비하여 높은 성능을 가짐을 확인하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.408-418
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• 2009

Adopting an encryption function in voice over Wi-Fi service incurs problems such as additional power consumption and degradation of communication quality. To overcome these problems, a partial encryption (PE) algorithm for compressed speech was recently introduced. However, from the security point of view, the partial encryption sets (PESs) of the conventional PE algorithm still have much room for improvement. This paper proposes a new selection method for finding a smaller PES while maintaining the security level of encrypted speech. The proposed PES selection method employs the perceptual evaluation of the speech quality (PESQ) algorithm to objectively measure the distortion of speech. The proposed method is applied to the ITU-T G.729 speech codec, and content protection capability is verified by a range of tests and a reconstruction attack. The experimental results show that encrypting only 20% of the compressed bitstream is sufficient to effectively hide the entire content of speech.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2002년도 11월 학술대회지
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• pp.77-80
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• 2002

This study proposes phonation type index k as a descriptor of the overall spectral tilt, which is free from the effects of fundamental frequency and vowel quality. The newly proposed phonation type index k presents a simple and single measure of the overall spectral tilt. Phonation type index k can be applied to speech technology. It can also be used in diagnosing patients voice qualities in speech pathology. The distribution of phonation type index k, which is speaker-dependent, may be useful in forensic phonetics and voice recognition as an indicator of speaker identity.