• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.139-146
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• 2012

This study was designed to examine comfort levels of pitch and loudness with target matching and their effects on electroglottographic (EGG) and acoustic measures. Twelve speakers, six males and six females, were instructed to produce /a/ sustained vowel for three seconds at a comfortable pitch and loudness level without any instruction and with a target matching procedure of either a certain f0 or SPL separately with visual and auditory feedback. The range of pitch for females and males were presented by progressing up and down randomly at intervals of 5Hz from 150 Hz to 310 Hz (total 33 frequency targets) and from 85 Hz to 190 Hz (total 22 frequency targets), respectively. The loudness levels were 65, 75, 85, 95 dB (total of four intensity targets) for both males and females. Subjective estimations of comfortable levels were obtained using a 10-point equal-appearing interval rating scale following each phonation. The results showed that males and females demonstrated similar trends in loudness levels with greatest comfort at 75 dB, whereas pitch comfort ratings showed a greater variability with females having a wider range with target matching. In the comfort levels of individuals, most male and female speakers rated higher comfort at soft, rather than loud phonations. On the other hand, most male speakers perceived highest comfort levels below the comfort pitch levels they phonated under natural conditions. Higher frequency ranges, however, were perceived to be more comfortable than those of natural condition in most female speakers, although the comfortable pitch levels in spontaneous phonations were within the comfort level ranges determined by targeted phonations. When comparing acoustic (%jitter, %shimmer, SNR) and EGG measures (CQ%) between spontaneous comfortable phonations and targeted phonations produced by the same subject at similar f0 and intensity, no significant differences were observed (p>0.05). Thus, target matching procedures may be considered a compatible and alternative method to reduce the variability of comfortable pitch and loudness levels by eliciting consistent comfortable phonations.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.1213-1228
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• 2017

The pitch tracking of music has been researched for several decades. Several possible improvements are available for creating a good t-distribution, using the instantaneous robust algorithm for pitch tracking framework to perfectly detect pitch. This article shows how to detect the pitch of music utilizing an improved detection method which applies a statistical method; this approach uses a pitch track, or a sequence of frequency bin numbers. This sequence is used to create an index that offers useful features for comparing similar songs. The pitch frequency spectrum is extracted using a modified instantaneous robust algorithm for pitch tracking (IRAPT) as a base combined with the statistical method. The pitch detection algorithm was implemented, and the percentage of performance matching in Thai classical music was assessed in order to test the accuracy of the algorithm. We used the longest common subsequence to compare the similarities in pitch sequence alignments in the music. The experimental results of this research show that the accuracy of retrieval of Thai classical music using the t-distribution of instantaneous robust algorithm for pitch tracking (t-IRAPT) is 99.01%, and is in the top five ranking, with the shortest query sample being five seconds long.

• 인간행동과 음악연구
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.69-79
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• 2005

This study was purported to examine the definition of tone deafness, various factors for the cause based on literature review of research findings, and to examine therapeutic application of music for treatment of tone deafness. With research, it was found that there can be three different kinds of tone deafness; amusia, agnosia, and asonia. Literature review showed that tone deafness has been frequently dealt in many research in order to verify the causal factors, such as gender, age, and environments. With time, the research trend on tone deafness has shifted towards neurological approach closely examining brain activity, presenting the statement that the brain's capacity to perceive modest pitch changes may be congenitally impaired. Also physiological factors contribute to tone deafness called diplacusis, which is a phenomenon wherein a given tone is heard as different pitches by the two ears, resulting in conflicting bilateral perception of pitch. Music can be used for treatment of various factors causing tone deafness. The most efficient intervention was singing program. Pitch-matching training can be effective training using operant conditioning procedure. Successive approximation or reinforcement of correct response alone was more efficient procedure in helping uncertain singers to sing on pitch. Also progressive breathing exercises helped the training the pitch-matching where one had to coordinate hearing and voice.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.73-79
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 피치 검출과 퍼지화 패턴 매칭을 포함하는 화자 인식 알고리즘을 제안한다. 음의 개성을 표현하는 피치를 이용한 피치 패턴을 사용하고 음성의 파라미터는 2진화 스펙트럼을 사용한다. 비선형적인 발성 시간에 따른 시간 변동의 폭을 모두 포함할 수 있도록 음성 신호의 애매성을 보완할 수 있는 퍼지의 소속 함수를 이용하여 표준 패턴을 작성하고 퍼지화 패턴 매칭을 이용하여 인식을 수행한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.723-736
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• 2014

This paper proposes a matching engine for a query-by-singing/humming (QbSH) system with polyphonic music files like MP3 files. The pitch sequences extracted from polyphonic recordings may be distorted. So we use chroma-scale representation, pre-processing, compensation, and asymmetric dynamic time warping to reduce the influence of the distortions. From the experiment with 28 hour music DB, the performance of our QbSH system based on polyphonic database is very promising in comparison with the published QbSH system based on monophonic database. It shows 0.725 in MRR(Mean Reciprocal Rank). Our matching engine can be used for the QbSH system based on MIDI DB also and that performance was verified by MIREX 2011.

• 구강회복응용과학지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.111-118
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• 2013

본 연구는 삼차원적 유한요소분석을 통하여 연결부 형태가 다른 두 가지 scallop 임플란트의 경부 나사선 피치가 응력 분포에 미치는 영향을 간접적으로 확인하고자 하였다. 4가지 경부 나사선 피치 (0.4mm, 0.5mm, 0.6mm, 0.7mm)를 갖는 scallop 임플란트를 두 가지 다른 연결부 형태 (platform matching connection, platform mismatching connection)로 지대주와 연결되는 유한요소모형을 설계하였다. 8개의 모든 모델에 100N의 하중을 수직 및 30도 경사 방향으로 인가하여, 임플란트, 지대주, 그리고 치조골에 가해지는 최대등가응력을 분석하였다. 유한요소분석결과 응력은 치밀골에 집중되었다. 작은 나사 피치가 설계된 platform mismatching connection 모델에서 수직 방향과 경사하중 시 최대등가응력이 가장 낮게 나타났다. 측정되었다. Platform matching connection 모델에서는 경사하중의 경우 0.6mm, 수직하중의 경우 0.4mm 나사 피치에서 가장 낮은 최대등가응력을 보였다. 따라서 scallop 임플란트에서 platform mismatching connection은 최대등가응력을 감소시키는 데 중요한 역할을 하며, 경부 나사 피치가 작을수록 최대등가응력이 감소되는 경향을 보임을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제24권7호
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• pp.402-409
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 고대역 (4kHz-8kHz)의 주기적 성분이 강하게 나타나는 신호에 대해서 MP (Matching Pursuit) 알고리즘을 이용한 부호화 방법을 제안한다. 또한 분석된 스펙트럼 크기 파라미터와 위상 파라미터의 효율적인 양자화 방법을 제안한다. MP 알고리즘은 오류 상쇄 원리와 정현파 모델에 바탕을 두고 있기 때문에 정확한 피치 주기 예측이 필요하다. 고대역의 정확한 피치 주기 예측을 위해 저대역 (0kHz-4kHz) 신호에서 검출한 피치 주기를 이용함으로써 부호화와 비트할당의 효율을 높일 수 있다. 스펙트럼 크기 계수의 양자화를 위해 계수들에 대해 고정 차원 이산코사인 변환 (MDCT : Modified Discrete Cosine Transform) 및 다단계 (multi-stage) 구조를 결합시킨 양자화 기법을 사용하였고, 위상 값들은 스펙트럼 크기에 따른 가중치 필터와 위상의 $2{\pi}$ 순환 특성을 이용하여 양자화하였다. 또한 제안한 양자화 기법과 부호화 방법을 음성 분석-합성 (analysis-by-synthesis) 시스템에 적용하여, 목적 신호와의 비교를 통해 검증한다. 향후 대역 분할을 기본 구조로 하는 계층 구조의 광대역 음성부호화기에의 적용 가능성을 제시한다.

• 한국감성과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국감성과학회 2000년도 춘계 학술대회 및 국제 감성공학 심포지움 논문집 Proceeding of the 2000 Spring Conference of KOSES and International Sensibility Ergonomics Symposium
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• pp.366-369
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• 2000

This paper examines three algorithms to recognize speaker's emotion using the speech signals. Target emotions are happiness, sadness, anger, fear, boredom and neutral state. MLB(Maximum-Likeligood Bayes), NN(Nearest Neighbor) and HMM (Hidden Markov Model) algorithms are used as the pattern matching techniques. In all cases, pitch and energy are used as the features. The feature vectors for MLB and NN are composed of pitch mean, pitch standard deviation, energy mean, energy standard deviation, etc. For HMM, vectors of delta pitch with delta-delta pitch and delta energy with delta-delta energy are used. We recorded a corpus of emotional speech data and performed the subjective evaluation for the data. The subjective recognition result was 56% and was compared with the classifiers' recognition rates. MLB, NN, and HMM classifiers achieved recognition rates of 68.9%, 69.3% and 89.1% respectively, for the speaker dependent, and context-independent classification.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.213-219
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 국부 봉우리와 골에 의한 피치 파라미터와 퍼지를 포함한 화자 인식 알고리즘을 제안한다. 음성의 패턴 인식에서 인식 성능을 저하시키는 시간 변동과 주파수 변동에 대한 문제를 해결하여 피치를 검출한다. 비선형적인 발성 시간에 따른 시간 변동의 폭을 모두 포함하기 위하여 음성 신호의 애매성을 보완할 수 있는 퍼지의 소속 함수를 이용하여 표준 패턴을 작성하고 퍼지 패턴 매칭을 이용하여 인식을 수행한다.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.522-533
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 피지 파라미터와 퍼지 추론을 포함한 화자 인식 알고리즘을 제안한다. 시간영역에서 검출 알고리즘의 장점인 잡음에 강인함을 가진 PVPF 법을 제안하여 피치를 검출한다. 또한 화자 인식에서 특징량들의 애매성을 표현하고 인식하는 방법으로 퍼지 이론을 도입하였다. PVPF는 음의 시간적인 특징을 이용하여 국부적으로 봉우리와 골을 이룬다는 것을 이용한 계산량이 적고 잡음에 강인한 피치 검출법이다.