• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2014년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.888-892
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• 2014

This paper evaluates $C_{50}$ in elementary school classrooms and considers utilization of $C_{50}$ as an assessment indicator of acoustic performance. $C_{50}$ is early-to-late arriving sound ratio, recent study reported that $C_{50}$ is more appropriate as a measure of clarity and speech intelligibility than D50 because it is linearly related to subjective responses. The average of $C_{50}$ in elementary school classrooms appeared to be about +2 dB ~ +3 dB throughout 500 Hz ~ 4 kHz. However, absolute evaluation is difficult because there is no suitable reference or standard yet. As deviation of $C_{50}$ according to location is larger than reverberation time, it is expected that $C_{50}$ will be more sensitive when someone assesses acoustic performance of classrooms. Correlation between $C_{50}$ and reverberation time is very high. From logarithmic regression equation, we can estimate appropriate range of $C_{50}$ in elementary school classrooms indirectly, using standard of reverberation time in ANSI.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제52호
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• pp.133-144
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• 2004

The quality of narrowband speech can be enhanced by the bandwidth extension technology. This paper proposes a mixed excitation and an energy compensation method based on Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). First, we employ the mixed excitation model having both periodic and aperiodic characteristics in frequency domain. We use a filter bank to extract the periodicity features from the filtered signals and model them based on GMM to estimate the mixed excitation. Second, we separate the acoustic space into the voiced and unvoiced parts of speech to compensate for the energy difference between narrowband speech and reconstructed highband, or lowband speech, more accurately. Objective and subjective evaluations show that the quality of wideband speech reconstructed by the proposed method is superior to that by the conventional bandwidth extension method.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.33-36
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• 2003

The influence of the visual information on the sound perception would be considerable. Furthermore, if the sound perception ranges in noisiness or annoyance beyond the loudness, it will depend much more on the shape of the visual information. This paper aims to estimate the influence of the several kinds of visual information on the perception of road traffic noise by means of the psycho-acoustic test method. The findings of present study on the influence of visual information on subjective noise perception are summarized as follows: Presenting visual images of mild and comfortable scenery reduced the noise perception reaction at the less noisy environments not exceeding 65 dB(A). At highly noisy environments exceeding 65 dB(A), however, the noise perception can be reduced by strong image of waterfall. Even eliminating the road traffic image may be helpful. Visual image of waterfall reduced the noise perception at all levels. It is inferred that the road traffic noise perception can be effectively ameliorated by presenting strong and real landscape images at any noisy environment.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.593-606
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• 2021

본 연구는 청주시의 음풍경을 파악하기 위하여 도심 지역을 특징에 따라 상업지역, 역사지역, 도심보행지역, 대학캠퍼스지역의 4가지로 구분한 뒤 총 13개 장소에서 발생되는 소리를 사운드워킹을 통하여 조사하였다. 이를 위하여 음향전문가 5인과 일반시민 65명을 대상으로 설문조사를 수행하여 지역별 소리의 크기와 불쾌감에 대해서 주관적으로 평가하도록 하였다. 또한 자연음, 인공음 및 기계음으로 구성된 35개의 신호음 보기 중 3가지를 선택하여 큰 소리, 불쾌한 소리, 듣기 좋은 소리, 대표 소리에 대한 정보를 취득하였다. 현장평가 결과, 소리의 크기와 불쾌감 사이에 매우 큰 상관관계가 있음을 알 수 있었다. 또한 지역별 신호음을 분석한 결과 상업지역은 기계음, 역사지역은 인공음과 자연음이 그 장소를 대표하는 소리로 나타났으며 도심보행지역과 대학캠퍼스의 대표 소리는 인공음인 것으로 나타났다. 한편 현장평가시 각 측정점의 상황을 녹음 및 녹화한 뒤 이를 이용해 실험실에서 20인을 대상으로 청감평가를 수행하였다. 실험실평가 결과 가장 크게 들리는 소리는 기계음과 인공음, 가장 불쾌하게 들리는 소리는 기계음, 가장 듣기 좋은 소리는 자연음과 인공음으로 나타나 현장평가와 유사한 경향성을 보여주고 있었다.