• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.871-888
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• 2020

With the development of display engineering and technology, the screen and sound quality of information devices such as TVs are improving. The screen used LEDs via LCD and PDP and a large flat panel in the early CRT to create super-high resolution. The sound is improved by directly vibrating a thin and simple panel, such as an OLED. In our previous study, the exciter speaker was attached to the rear of the OLED panel to be used as the diaphragm of the speaker, and the sound quality was as good as that of the TV using the existing dynamic speaker. This method supplied the viewer with the direct sound coming from the panel, delivering clear sound, and the sound and image came from the same location, thus giving the viewer high immersion and maximizing the effect of information transfer. OLED exciter speakers, however, have a special directivity, which tends to slightly attenuate the tone at the very center of the screen. This study improves the sound quality by improving the structure of the exciter speaker and the radiated sound of the flat panel display. A 2-in-1 Exciter is made into a single core to improve the speaker's radiation pattern.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.131-139
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• 1998

With the rapid development of communication technology and widespread uses of internet service, utilization of internet-based medical information systems which transmitts moving pictures of medical objects is becoming a common practice. The internet-based medical information service prvovides richer information than conventional services such as touch-tone telephone, personal computers e-mails, or pagers, because "a picture is worth a thousand words". However, the systems passively transmits moving pictures of the medical objects to the users, and thus the system cannot intelligently adjust itself to provide better service. As the tradeoff exists between transmission speed and quality of the image, there is a need that moving pictures be analyzed to adjust the trnasmission speed and image quality. When very little difference between consecutive images are detected, the system can automatically increase the size of the image files, thus enhancing the quality of image. In contrast, the system should increase the number of images to send more pictorial information by sacrificing the quality of each individual image, when a significant difference is detected. In this paper an adaptive filtering technique is introduced which adjusts the quality of image and transmission speed according to a clinical situation in hospital.

• Journal of Audiology & Otology
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.91-98
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• 2020

Background and Objectives: This study aimed to compare functional hearing with the use of a personal sound amplification product (PSAP) or a basic hearing aid (HA) among sensorineural hearing impaired listeners. Subjects and Methods: Nineteen participants with mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) (26-55 dB HL; pure-tone average, 0.5-4 kHz) were prospectively included. No participants had prior experience with HAs or PSAPs. Audiograms, speech intelligibility in both quiet and noisy environments, speech quality, and preference were assessed in three different listening conditions: unaided, with the HA, and with the PSAP. Results: The use of PSAP was associated with significant improvement in pure-tone thresholds at 1, 2, and 4 kHz compared to the unaided condition (all p<0.01). In the quiet environment, speech intelligibility was significantly improved after wearing a PSAP compared to the unaided condition (p<0.001), and this improvement was better than the result obtained with the HA. The PSAP also demonstrated similar improvement in the most comfortable levels compared to those obtained with the HA (p<0.05). However, there was no significant improvement of speech intelligibility in a noisy environment when wearing the PSAP (p=0.160). There was no significant difference in the reported speech quality produced by either device or in participant preference for the PSAP or HA. Conclusions: The current result suggests that PSAPs provide considerable benefits to speech intelligibility in a quiet environment and can be a good alternative to compensate for mild-to-moderate SNHL.

• 대한청각학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.91-98
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• 2020

Background and Objectives: This study aimed to compare functional hearing with the use of a personal sound amplification product (PSAP) or a basic hearing aid (HA) among sensorineural hearing impaired listeners. Subjects and Methods: Nineteen participants with mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) (26-55 dB HL; pure-tone average, 0.5-4 kHz) were prospectively included. No participants had prior experience with HAs or PSAPs. Audiograms, speech intelligibility in both quiet and noisy environments, speech quality, and preference were assessed in three different listening conditions: unaided, with the HA, and with the PSAP. Results: The use of PSAP was associated with significant improvement in pure-tone thresholds at 1, 2, and 4 kHz compared to the unaided condition (all p<0.01). In the quiet environment, speech intelligibility was significantly improved after wearing a PSAP compared to the unaided condition (p<0.001), and this improvement was better than the result obtained with the HA. The PSAP also demonstrated similar improvement in the most comfortable levels compared to those obtained with the HA (p<0.05). However, there was no significant improvement of speech intelligibility in a noisy environment when wearing the PSAP (p=0.160). There was no significant difference in the reported speech quality produced by either device or in participant preference for the PSAP or HA. Conclusions: The current result suggests that PSAPs provide considerable benefits to speech intelligibility in a quiet environment and can be a good alternative to compensate for mild-to-moderate SNHL.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.675-681
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• 2021

최근 인공지능 스피커 시장이 성장하면서 사용자와 자연스러운 대화가 가능한 음성합성 기술에 대한 수요가 증가하고 있다. 따라서 다양한 음색의 목소리를 생성할 수 있는 다화자 음성합성 시스템이 필요하다. 자연스러운 음성을 합성하기 위해서는 대용량의 고품질 음성 DB로 학습하는 것이 요구된다. 그러나 많은 화자가 발화한 고품질의 대용량 음성 DB를 수집하는 것은 녹음 시간과 비용 측면에서 매우 어려운 일이다. 따라서 각 화자별로는 소량의 학습 데이터이지만 매우 많은 화자의 음성 DB를 사용하여 음성합성 시스템을 학습하고, 이로부터 다화자의 음색과 운율 등을 자연스럽게 표현하는 기술이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 화자인식 기술에서 사용하는 딥러닝 기반 x-vector 기법을 적용하여 화자 인코더를 구성하고, 화자 인코더를 통해 소량의 데이터로 새로운 화자의 음색을 합성하는 기술을 제안한다. 다화자 음성합성 시스템에서 텍스트 입력에서 멜-스펙트로그램을 합성하는 모듈은 Tacotron2로, 합성음을 생성하는 보코더는 로지스틱 혼합 분포가 적용된 WaveNet으로 구성되어 있다. 학습된 화자 임베딩 신경망에서 추출한 x-vector를 Tacotron2에 입력으로 추가하여 원하는 화자의 음색을 표현한다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.943-952
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• 2006

OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Mulitiplexing) 시스템은 유무선 고속 디지털 통신 분야에 응용되고 있다. 그러나 OFDM은 다수의 반송파를 이용하기 때문에 동위상의 신호가 합쳐져 높은 PAPR(Peak to Average Power)이 발생하고, 그로 인해 비선형 증폭기를 거치면서 신호가 왜곡되는 문제점이 발생한다. 이러한 문제의 대책으로 대개 PAPR을 낮게 하여 전송하는 기법을 이용한다. 그러나 본 논문에서는 가장 낮은 PAPR을 찾는 PAPR 저감 기법 대신에, 비선형성으로 나타난 IMD(Inter-Modulation Distortion)를 저감시키게 하는 방법을 연구한다. IMD 감소 기법은 비선형 입출력 특성 다항식의 3차 항에 의해 발생된 왜곡 신호 중에 최소 왜곡 신호를 수신기로 전송하는 방식이다. 본 논문에서는 기존에 PAPR을 저감하기 위하여 제안된 TR(Tone Reservation) 기법을 사용하되, PAPR 자체를 저감하기 보다는 비선형 HPA를 거친 후 발생하는 IMD 성분을 저감하는 방식을 제안한다. 그리고 TR 기법을 이용하여 PAPR 저감과 제안된 IMD 저감의 시뮬레이션 비교 분석 결과, 3차 비선형에 대해 IMD 저감이 PAPR 저감에 비해 BER 성능이 좀 더 향상되었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.293-296
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• 1998

When the information of announcement facility is modified or added, they are recorded on a tape and then are updated manually using the cassette tape recorder at each office. But the degrade of the tone quality owing to repeated use of the tape and some recording mistakes by processing manually deteriorate the quality of service. And new services such as IN(Intelligent Network) and added functions make the announcement changed very often. Therefore the improved skill of the announcement handling is needed. This paper introduces the implementation of the TDX-10A on-line recording function of transferring voice in PCM data file and storing it in the memory of the recorded announcement facility, when message is recorded onthe fixed type of announcement facility.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.879-880
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• 2008

Music can give pleasure to people according to a rhythm, and Musical instrument can make various sounds according to quality of the lumber. A string instrument makes sound by strings so it feels very soft and a brass makes to feel a high pitched tone. A gayageum makes sound by oscillation which is transferred to a resonator when a string is touched. And this sound is very soft and faint. Therefore, in this paper, we researched sound properties of gayageum according to quality of the lumber of musical instrument. As the result of researches, we found that melody is affected by the annual ring of the resonance lumber.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2013년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.116-121
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• 2013

Panaroma Sun roof's sun shade motor elicits two major sounds when operating: the tonal sound and the white noises. Generally, the sound related to the sharpness contributes the most to the quality of motors' tonal sound. The primary purpose of this study was to set the loudness of the motor's objective tonal sound utilizing the masking effect by its white noises. To conduct this study, the sound made by the operating sun shade motor was categorized into two different subsets of masker and test tone to examine the masking threshold. Also, the shifts of masking threshold were observed with the varying masker loudness.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.32-37
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• 1998

Tonsillectomy is the one of operation that is performed the most commonly in otolaryngology field. Many changes that include range of voice, tone, voice quality and resonance were made by tonsillectomy. Sometimes, any patients taken tonsillectomy has suffer from these voice problem after tonsillectomy. However there are less study for these problems until now. Then, we studied to find the anatomical findings that affected the voice quality when tonsillectomy was performed. We evaluated the voice in 2 groups, one is the group showed the normal pharyngeal space by using the transnasal fiberscopy, the other is group showed medially bulging tonsil at pharyngeal cavity by using same method, with perceptual evaluation, nasalance score, nasality, oral formant and nasal formant. We used the computerized speech analysis system, the nasometer and the spectrogram in the CSL program. We could not find any differences in perceptual evaluation between two groups. But objective measures were provided. Nasalance score and nasality on the nasometric analysis were increased significantly and oral formant on the spectrogram was changed singnificantly after tonsillectomy in Group 2. Authors thought medially bulging tonsil in the pharynx is able to affect the voice quality after tonsillectomy when we evaluted through the nasal cavity by the using of fiberscopy and this evaluation would be important especially in singers.