• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.95-100
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• 2000

The purpose of this paper is to show their distinctive auditory cues. Until now research of acoustic characteristics has been confined to simple experiments concerning the restricted conditions. Therefore this paper examines all of the acoustic characteristics of the lax and tense Fricative Consonants and shows to how acoustic characteristics can be used to differentiate lax and tense Fricative Consonants. The results of this paper are (a) auditory cues are especially important if there is a large difference between acoustic characteristics, (b) the lax and tense Fricative Consonant's distinctive auditory cues contain a hierarchy, and (c) there is a different hierarchy between CV and VCV.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06c
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• pp.371-374
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• 1998

본 연구의 목적은 한국어 마찰음과 파찰음을 변별적으로 지각하게 해 주는 결정적 단서를 찾아보려는 것이다. 마찰음의 마찰 소음 구간 길이를 감소시키고, 파찰음의 마찰 소음 구간 길이를 증가시키는 두 가지 실험을 통해 소음 구간의 길이 변화가 지각에 미치는 영향을 살펴 보았다. 실험 결과, 소음 구간 길이의 변화가 주된 지각적 단서임을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.181-189
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• 2011

According to developments of digital signal processing, 3D sound come into focus on multimedia systems. Many studies on 3d sound have proposed lots of clues to create realistic sounds. But these clues are only focused on binaural systems which two ears are normal. If we make the 3d sound using those clues at monaural systems, the performance goes down dramatically. In order to use the clues for monaural systems, we have studies algorithms such as duplex theory. In duplex theory, the sounds that we listen are affected by human's body, pinna and shoulder. So, we can enhance sound localization performances using its characteristics. In this paper, we propose a new method to use psychoacoustic theory that creates realistic 3D audio at monaural systems. To improve 3d sound, we calculate the excitation energy rates of each symmetric HRTF and extract the weights in each bark range. Finally, they are applied to emphasize the characteristics related to each direction. Informal listening tests show that the proposed method improves sound localization performances much better than the conventional methods.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02b
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• pp.535-540
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• 2007

최근 음악을 재생할 수 있는 다양한 소형기기들의 발전이 이루어지고 있다. 휴대용 음향기기에서 곡을 탐색할 경우, 곡 탐색 습관의 특성상 눈으로 확인하지 않고 손을 사용한 촉각적 피드백만을 이용하는 것이 대부분이다. 또한 곡 탐색 과제는 청각적인 표적을 찾는 것임에 반하여, 지금까지 청각적인 단서에 대한 연구의 대부분은 시각적인 표적을 찾는 것에 집중되어 있었다. 본 연구에서는 청각적인 표적을 탐색하는데 있어 청각적 위치 단서가 미치는 영향을 알아보고자 하였다. 주어진 곡 리스트를 암기한 후, 화면에 제시되는 표적 곡을 탐색하는데 있어 청각적인 위치 단서가 있는 좌우 조건, 가운데 조건, 그리고 무음 조건의 경우에 따른 곡 탐색의 정확률과 반응 시간을 측정하였다. 과제는 정상과 오류 두 가지 유형으로 구성되었다. 결과는 청각적인 위치 정보가 포함된 좌우 조건이 정상 과제와 오류 과제에 있어서 가운데 조건과 무음 조건에 비하여 모두 유의미하게 짧은 반응 시간을 보였다. 본 실험 결과는 휴대용 음향기기뿐만 아니라 위성항법장치(GPS), 가상환경(Virtual Environment) 등과 같이 청각적인 표적을 찾아야 하는 과제를 포함하는 환경에도 적용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.41-60
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• 2021

The purpose of this research was to determine whether multimodal cues in an online shopping environment could enhance tactile consumer mental imagery, purchase intentions, and attitudes towards an apparel product. One limitation of online retail is that consumers are unable to physically touch the items. However, as tactile information plays an important role in consumer decisions especially for apparel products, this study investigated the effects of multimodal cues on overcoming the lack of tactile stimuli. In experiment 1, to explore the product, the participants were randomly assigned to four conditions; picture only, video without sound, video with corresponding sound, and video with discordant sound; after which tactile mental imagery vividness, ease of imagination, attitude, and purchase intentions were measured. It was found that the video with discordant sound had the lowest average scores of all dependent variables. A within-participants design was used in experiment 2, in which all participants explored the same product in the four conditions in a random order. They were told that they were visiting four different brands on a price comparison web site. After the same variables as in experiment 1, including the need for touch, were measured, the repeated measures ANCOVA results revealed that compared to the other conditions, the video with the corresponding sound significantly enhanced tactile mental imagery vividness, attitude, and purchase intentions. However, the discordant condition had significantly lower attitudes and purchase intentions. The dual mediation analysis also revealed that the multimodal cue conditions significantly predicted attitudes and purchase intentions by sequentially mediating the imagery vividness and ease of imagination. In sum, vivid tactile mental imagery triggered using audio-visual stimuli could have a positive effect on consumer decision making by making it easier to imagine a situation where consumers could touch and use the product.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.12-21
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• 1998

이 연구는 몇 가지 음성적 특징들이 한국어 연속 음성에서의 운율단위의 운율 단서 로 사용되어질 수 있음을 보여 준다. 구 단위의 운율 이론 체계에서 한국어의 운율단위를 악센트구와 억양구로 정의한 전선아(1993)의 연구 결과를 연속음성 자료에 도입하면서 운율 경계에서의 음성적 특징들을 살펴보았다. 연구 결과 악센트구와 억양구말에서는 피치 패턴 과 경계성조의 변화 뿐 아니라 단위말 음절의 길이 증가 현상이 두드러짐을 알 수 있었다. 또 악센트구와 억양구초에서는 모음으로 시작하는 음절의 경우, 모음 시작부에서의 성문음 화가 특징으로 나타난다. 운율 경계에서의 이런 음성적 특징들은 운율단위를 구분짓는 단서 로 이용될 수 있으며 또한 한국어 연속음성의 운율적 패턴을 이해할 수 있게 한다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.165-168
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• 2004

본 논문은 방송 및 통신 환경을 이용한 멀티채널 음향 재생 환경에서 다수 객체의 음상 정위를 보다 효과적이고 효율적으로 하기 위한 방법에 관한 것이다. 본 논문에서는 전송되는 정보의 양을 최소화 하면서도 재생되는 음향공간에서는 다수의 음향 객체들이 충실하게 재생되어 자연스러운 음향공간이 재현할 수 있는 방법을 제시하고가 한다. 기존 방법의 경우, 전송 선로를 통해 음원을 압축하여 전송하기 위해서는 먼저 멀티채널 신호를 합한 모노신호와 채널 신호사이의 음량차이(ICLD), 시간지연 차이(ICTD), 상관도(ICC)등을 전송하는 양귀단서 신호화 기술(Binaural Cue Coding)을 이용하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 멀티채널 음원을 분석하여, 음원의 가상 위치정보를 벡터적으로 표현하고, 이 위치벡터와 멀티채널 음원을 하나의 모노 음원으로 다운 믹스한 신호를 전송함으로써 전송 효율을 극대화 한 압축 재생 방법을 제시한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.495-503
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to investigate how Korean speakers produce English vowels. Twenty one Korean learners produced the vowels [i, ɪ, eɪ, ɛ, æ, ɑ, ʌ, ɔ, oʊ, ʊ, u] in bVt or pVt forms of real words. Acoustic measurements were conducted for the vowel formant frequencies (F1, F2) and duration. Results showed that Korean learners tended to produce the vowel duration longer than native English speakers. Also, the front vowels produced by Korean participants tended to be produced at the more frontal part of the tongue. In addition, Korean participants distinguished the tense and lax pairs not through quality(F1, F2) but through vowel duration. This is different from the native English speakers in that they differentiate tense and lax pairs by quality(F1, F2) as well as vowel duration. Based on these results, pedagogical implications are discussed.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.31-44
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• 1994

The paper introduces several studies of various aspects of Korean phonology and phonetics for speech recognition and synthesis. The phonological and phonetic studies presented in this paper are : i) For a study of segmental phonology, we made an annotated list of Korean allophones and their corresponding alphabetic symbols to type into computers. ii) For a study of segmental phonetics, we present some acoustic regulations in Korean consonants according to their phonological environment within a word. iii) For a study of prosodic phonology, we suggest the phonological functions of prosodic features and their acoustic cues. iv) For a study of prosodic phonetics, we present the characteristic patterns of accent and intonation in Korean. v) Finally, we suggest some ways of using this phonological and phonetic knowledge for possible improvement of speech recognition and synthesis.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.66-70
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• 1997

In order to obtain natural emotional voice in laboratory, an autobiographical recall method was used and happy, angry, sad and afraid feelings were induced in 16 college students. Three independent judges rated the subject's facial expressions and vocal characteristics. The mood induction results were compared with those from the actor-initiated method. Data analysis showed that recall-induced voices successfully conveyed subtle emotional cues, while actor-induced voices signaled more extreme emotioms. Implications of the autobiographical recall method in emotional voice research and potential problems are discussed.