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Design of Programmable SC Filter (프로그램 가능한 SC Filter의 설계)

  • 이병수;이종악
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.172-178
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    • 1986
  • The recent interest in the design of filters is motivatied by the fact that such filter can be fully integrated using standard metal-oxide-semiconductor processing technology. This is due to replacing all the resistors in the active RC filter network by the switched capacitors. The voltage gain of a SC filter depends only on the rations of capacitance and these ratios can be obtained and maintained to high accuracy. Therefore, it is known that a switched capacitor is much better than a resistor in temperature and linearity characteristics. This paper proposed a programmable SC filter and proved the fact that ${omega}_0$ Q and G of this circuit can be controlled by digital signal. Experiments show that SC filter remains the low sensitivities but it can't avoid little influence of parasitic capacitance. As the transfer characteristic of the SC filter is varied with sampling frequency and resistor array, SC filtering technigue can be applied for digital processing, speech analysis and synthesis and so on.

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A Phonetic Study og German (2) (독어음의 음성학적 고찰(2) - 현대독어의 복모음에 관하여 -)

  • Yun Jong-sun
    • MALSORI
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    • no.19_20
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    • pp.33-42
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    • 1990
  • Those who are interested in the German diphthongs wil1 find that they are classified into three kinds of forms in accordance with their gliding directions: closing, centring and rising. The German [aI], for example, which derives its origin from [i:] of the riddle high German. Is regarded as a distinctive feature that distinguishes the new high German from the middle high German. The diphthong [aI] is cal led fall ing one, because the sonority of the sound undergoes a diminution as the articulation proceeds. The end part of the diphthong [aI] is less sonorous than the beginning part. In most of the German diphthongs the diminution of prominence is caused by the fact that the end part is inherently less sonorous than the beginning. This applies to the other c los Ing and centring diphthongs. This way of diminution of sonority exerts influence on methods of constructing systems of phonetic notation. The above mentioned less sonorous end part of diphthong [I] shows that it differs from some analogous sound in another context. It is useful to demonstrate the occurrence of particular allophones by introducing special symbols to denote them (here: at→ae). Forms of transcription embodying extra symbol s are cal led narrow. But since strict adherence to the principle 'one sound one symbol' would involve the introduction of a large number of symbols, this would render phonetic transcriptions cumbrous and difficult to read. A broad style of transcription provides 'one symbol for each phoneme' of the language that is transcribed. Phonemic transcriptions are simple and unambiguous to everyone who knows the principles governing the use of allophones in the language transcribed. Among those German ways of transcriptions of diphthongs ( a?, a?, ??: ae, ao, ?ø; ae, ao, ?ø) the phonemic (broad) transcription is general Iy to be recommended, for Instance, in teaching the pronunciation of a foreign language, since it combines accuracy with the greatest measure of simplicity (Some passages and terms from Daniel Jones) .

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Study on the Situational satisfaction survey of Smart Phone based on voice recognition technology (스마트 폰 음성 인식 서비스의 상황별 만족도 조사)

  • Lee, Yoon-jeong;Kim, Seung-In
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.15 no.8
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    • pp.351-357
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between users' expectation and satisfaction through analyzing smart phone voice recognition service and surveying the situational satisfaction of voice recognition service. First, the concept and current status of speech recognition service were investigated through literature research, and the questionnaire survey was carried out through questionnaires based on the second and third principles. As a result, the user is most likely to use the smartphone voice recognition service when making a telephone call. Also, it was found that the service is the most used at home and the service is used most when the hand is not available. Through these results, various methods such as personalization service, condition recognition function, automatic emergency recognition, unlocking by voice could be derived. Based on this research, it is expected that it will be used effectively for improving smartphone voice recognition service and developing wearable device in the future.

Some Characteristics of Hanmal and Hangul from the viewpoint of Processing Hangul Information on Computers

  • Kim, Kyong-Sok
    • Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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    • 1996.10a
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    • pp.456-463
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    • 1996
  • In this paper, we discussed three cases to see the effects of the characteristics of Hangul writing system. In applications such as computer Hangul shorthands for ordinary people and pushbuttons with Hangul characters engraved, we found that there is much advantage in using Hangul. In case of Hangul Transliteration, we discussed some problems which are related with the characteristics of Hangul writing system. Shorthands use 3-set keyboards in England, America, and Korea. We saw how ordinary people can do computer Hangul shorthands, whereas only experts can do computer shorthands in other countries. Specifically, the facts that 1) Hangul characters are grouped into syllables (syllabic blocks) and that 2) there is already a 3-set Hangul keyboard for ordinary people allow ordinary people to do computer Hangul shorthands without taking special training as with English shorthands. This study was done by the author under the codename of 'Sejong 89'. In contrast like QWERTY or DVORAK, a 2-set Hangul keyboard cannot be used for shorthands. In case of English pushbuttons, one digit is associated with only one character. However, by engraving only syllable-initial characters on the phone pushbuttons, we can associate one Hangul "syllable" with one digit. Therefore, for a given number of digits, we can associate longer words or more meaningful words in Hangul than in English. We discussed the problems of the Hangul Transliteration system proposed by South Korea and suggested their solutions, if available. 1) We are incorrectly using the framework of transcription for transliteration. To solve the problem, the author suggests that a) we include all complex characters in the transliteration table, and that b) we specify syllable-initial and -final characters separately in the table. 2) The proposed system cannot represent independent characters and incomplete syllables. 3) The proposed system cannot distinguish between syllable-initial and -final characters.

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The identification of /I/ in Spanish and French

  • Jorge A. Gurlekian;Benoit Jacques;Miguelina Guirao
    • Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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    • 1996.10a
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    • pp.521-528
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    • 1996
  • This presentation explores on the perceptual characteristics of the lateral sound /l/ in CV syllables. At initial position we found that /l/ has well marked formant transitions. Then several questions arise: 1) are these formant structures dependent on the following vowel\ulcorner. 2) Are the formant transitions giving an additional cue for the identification\ulcorner Considering that the French vocalic system presents a greater variety of vowels than Spanish, several experiments were designed to verify to what extent a more extensive range of vocalic timbres contribute to the perception of /l/. Natural emissions of /l/ produced in Argentine Spanish and Canadian French CV syllables were recorded, where V was successively /i, e, a, o, u/ for Spanish and /i, e, $\varepsilon$, a, $\alpha$, o, u, y, \phi$/ for French. For each item, the segment C was maintained and V was replaced by cutting & splicing by each of the remaining vowels without transitions. Results of the identification tests for Spanish show that natural /l/ segments with low Fl and high formants F3, F4 can be clearly identified in the /i, e, u/ vowel contexts without transitions. For French subjects the combination of /l/ with a vowel without transitions reflected correct identifications for its own original vowel context in /e, $\varepsilon$, y, $\phi$/. For both languages, in all these combinations, F1 values remained rather steady along the syllable. In the case of /o, u/ very likely the F2 difference lead to a variety of perceptions of the original /l/. For example in Ilul, French subjects reported some identifications of /l/ as a vowel, mainly /y/. Our observations reinforce the importance of F1 as a relevant cue for /l/, and the incidence of the relative distance between formants frequencies of both components.

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Coarticulation and vowel reduction in the neutral tone of Beijing Mandarin

  • Lin Maocan
    • Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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    • 1996.10a
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    • pp.207-207
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    • 1996
  • The neutral tone is one of the most important distinguishing features in Beijing Mandarin, but there are two completely different views on its linguistic function: a special tone(Xu, 1980) versus weak stress(Chao, 1968). In this paper, the acoustic manifestation of the neutral tone will be explored to show that it is closely related to weak stress. 122 disyllabic words in which the second syllable carries the neutral tone, including 22 stress pairs, were uttered by a native male speaker of Beijing dialect and analysed by Kay Digital Sonagraph 5500-1. The results of the acoustic analysis are presented as follows: 1) The first two formants of the medial and the syllabic vowel moves towards that of central vowel with a greater magnitude in the syllable with the neutral tone than in the syllable with any of the four normal tones. Also the vowel ending, and nasal coda /n/ and / / in the syllable with the neutral tone tends to be deleted. 2) In the syllables with the neutral tone, there are strong carryover coarticulations between the medial and syllabic vowel and the preceding unvoiced consonant. In general, the vowel is affected to move towards the position of the central vowel with more greater magnitude by coronal consonant than by labial or velar consonant. 3) In the syllable with the neutral tone, when and only when it precedes a syllable with tone-4, the high vowel following [f], [ts'], [s], [ts'], [s], [tc'] or [c] tends to be voiceless. 4) It can be seen from the acoustical results of 22 stress pairs that the duration of the syllable with the neutral tone is on the average reduced to 55% of that of the syllable with the four normal tones, and the duration of the final in the syllable with neutral tone is on the average reduced to 45% of that of the final in the syllable with the four normal tones(Lin & Yan 1980). 5) The FO contour of the neutral tone is highly dependent on the preceding normal tone(Lin & Yan 1993). For a number of languages it has been found that the vowel space is reduced as the level of stress placed upon the vowel is reduced(Nord 1986). Therefore we reach the conclusion that the syllable with neutral tone is related to weak stress(Lin & Yan 1990). The neutral tone is not a special tone because the preceding normal tone.

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Korean Phonetic Characteristics reflected in the Pronunciation of French (한국인의 불어발음에 나타나는 음성학적 특징)

  • Park Hay-Jeanne
    • Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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    • 1996.10a
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    • pp.252-257
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    • 1996
  • La structure syllabique est un facteur important dan la prononciation d'une langue. Dans cette these, on a essaye de montrer que les caracteristiques de la syllabe varie d'une langue a une autre, et que les regles qui regissent la syllabe dan la langue maternelle a le dessue et done fait appliquer ses regles a la langue etrangere. Premierement, l'accentuation du coreen depend de la structure syllabique (qu'elle soit consonne-voyelle(CV) ou consonne-voyelle-consonne(CVC) et de la longueur de la voyelle. Ce qui fait que bien que le francais soit oxyton, et que la longueur et la qualite de la voyelle dependent de la structure syllabique, le francais, le francais parle par les coreens suit les regles du coreen. Autre caracteristique est que le coreen n'admet pas de suite de consonnes avant et apres la voyelle centrale comme dans "premier"[$pr{\partial}mje$] "autre"[o:tR]. D'ou l'insertion de voyelle superflue comme [${\varpi},{\;}{\wedge},{\;}{\partial}$]. Troisiemement, il existe une difference dans la coupe de la chaine parlee: en coreen la coupe ecrite(le blanc) egale a peu pres a la coupe orale(la pause) alors qu'en francais, c'est en groupe de mots que se fait la coupe. A l'interieur du groupe, les mots sont lies entre eux, soity par liaison, soit par enchainement. On peut remarquer donc une nette influence du coreen, ou la regle est de prononcer correctement par unites ecrites (equivalent des mots en francais) : la chaine parlee devient saccadee, avec un accent sur tous les mots, et des coups de glotte entre les mots, et l'une des voyelles [${\varpi},{\;}{\wedge},{\;}{\partial}$] inseree entre un mot se terminant par une consonne suivi d'un mot qui commence par une consonne.

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Visual.Auditory.Acoustic Study on Singing Vowels of Korean Lyric Songs (시각과 청각 및 음향적 관점에서의 노랫말 모음 연구)

  • Lee Jai Kang
    • Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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    • 1996.10a
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    • pp.362-366
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    • 1996
  • This paper is generally divided in 2 parts. One is the study on vowels about korean singer's lyric song in view of Daniel Jones' Cardinal Vowel. The other is acoustic study on vowels in my singing about korean lyric song. Analysis data are KBS concert video tape and CSL's. NSP file on my singing and Informants are famous singers i.e. 3 sopranos, 1 mezzo, 2 tenors, 1baritone, and me. Analysis aim is to find out Korean 8 vowels([equation omitted]) quality in singing. The methods of descrition are used in closed vowels, half closed vowels, half open vowels, open vowels and rounded vowels, unroundes vowels and formants. The study of the former is while watching the monitor screen to stop the scene that is to be analysixed. The study of the latter is to analysis the spectrogram converted by CSL's. SP file. Analysis results are an follows: Visual and auditory korean vowels quality in singing have the 3 tendency. One is the tendency of more rounded than is usual Korean vowels. Another is the tendency of centralized to center point in Cardinal Vowel and the other is the tendency of diversity in vowel quality. Acoustic analysis is studied by means of 4 formants. Fl and F2 show similiar step in spoken. In Fl there is the same formant values. This seems to vocal organization be perceived the singign situation. The width of F3 is the widest of all, so F3 may be the characteristics in singing. In conclude, the characteristics of vowels in Korean lyric songs are seems to have the tendencies of rounding, centralizing to center point in Cardinal Vowel, diversity in vowel quality and, F3'widest width in compared with usual Korean vowels.

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A Study on LMS Using Effective User Interface in Mobile Environment (모바일 환경에서 효과적인 사용자 인터페이스를 이용한 LMS에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Si-Jung;Cho, Do-Eun
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.76-81
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    • 2012
  • With the spread of the various mobile devices, the studies on the learning management system based on the u-learning are actively proceeding. The u-learning-based learning management system is very convenient in that there are no restrictions on the various access devices as well as the access time and place. However, the judgments on the authentication for the user and whether learning is focused on are difficult. In this paper, the voice and user face capture interface rather than the common user event oriented interface was applied to the learning management system. When a user is accessing the learning management system, user's registered password is input and login as voice, and the user's learning attitude is judged through the response utterance of simple words during the process of learning through contents. As a result of evaluating the proposed learning management system, the user's learning achievement and concentration were improved, thus enabling the manager to monitor the user's abnormal learning attitude.

Development for Estimation Model of Runway Visual Range using Deep Neural Network (심층신경망을 활용한 활주로 가시거리 예측 모델 개발)

  • Ku, SungKwan;Hong, SeokMin
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.435-442
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    • 2017
  • The runway visual range affected by fog and so on is one of the important indicators to determine whether aircraft can take off and land at the airport or not. In the case of airports where transportation airplanes are operated, major weather forecasts including the runway visual range for local area have been released and provided to aviation workers for recognizing that. This paper proposes a runway visual range estimation model with a deep neural network applied recently to various fields such as image processing, speech recognition, natural language processing, etc. It is developed and implemented for estimating a runway visual range of local airport with a deep neural network. It utilizes the past actual weather observation data of the applied airfield for constituting the learning of the neural network. It can show comparatively the accurate estimation result when it compares the results with the existing observation data. The proposed model can be used to generate weather information on the airfield for which no other forecasting function is available.