• 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.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.6993-6997
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• 2014

본 연구의 목적은 자성유체 스피커의 보이스 코일 방열 및 음질 저하 문제를 극복하기 위하여 무향실내에서 자성유체 스피커의 음 왜곡률, 음압레벨 및 주파수 특성과 같은 음질 성능 특성을 고찰하는 것이다. 이를 위하여 자성유체 스피커에서 자성유체 주입량 및 영구자석 자력을 변화시켜가면서 음압 성능을 측정하였다. 그리고 스피커의 음 왜곡률, 음압레벨 및 주파수 특성은 음향시스템 측정 프로그램인 Smarrt를 이용하여 측정하였다. 결과적으로, 자성유체의 주입량은 2.4 ml로 결정되었고, 자성유체를 주입할 경우 음 왜곡률 및 음압레벨은 향상되었다. 자성유체 스피커에서 영구자석의 자력을 8.06 mT에서 9.10 mT로 증가시킬 경우 주파수 특성 및 음압레벨은 더욱 향상되었다. 또한, 자성유체 스피커의 음 왜곡률은 일반 스피커에 비하여 약 0.01% 감소하였다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.25-32
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• 2017

Besides their effect on the f0 contour of the following vowel, Korean stops are undergoing a sound change in which a partial or complete consonantal merger on voice onset time (VOT) is taking place between aspirated and lax stops. Many previous studies on sound change have mainly focused on group-normative effects, that is, effects that are representative of the population as a whole. Few systematic quantitative studies of change in adult individuals have been carried out. The current study examines whether the sound change holds for individual speakers. It focuses on inter-speaker and intra-speaker variability on sound change in contemporary Korean. Speech data were collected for thirteen Seoul Korean speakers studying abroad in America. In order to minimize the possible effects of speech production, socio-phonetic factors such as age, gender, dialect, speech rate, and L2 exposure period were controlled when recruiting participants. The results showed that, for nine out of thirteen speakers, the consonantal merger is taking place between the aspirated and lax stop in terms of VOT. There were also intra-speaker variations on the merger in three aspects: First, is the consonantal (VOT) merger between the two stops is in progress or not? Second, are VOTs for aspirated stops getting shorter or not (i.e., the aspirated-shortening process)? Third, are VOTs for lax stops getting longer or not (i.e., the lax-lengthening process)? The results of remarkable inter-speaker and intra-speaker variability indicate a synchronous speech sound change of the stop system in contemporary Korean. Some speakers are early adopters or active propagators of sound change whereas others are not. Further study is necessary to see whether the inter-speaker differences exceed intra-speaker differences in sound change.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2004년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.763-766
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• 2004

Recently, various acoustic artifacts that contains speaker have been produced such as cellular phone. Speaker consists of diaphragm generating sound and coil vibrating diaphragm. Generally, good speaker means that it has a wide frequency range, high output power rate to input power and flat sound pressure level in specified frequency range. Acoustic characteristic was estimated through the experiment and computer simulation, or sound power was controlled with acoustic sensitivity in a natural frequency range fer last decade. However, the flatness of sound pressure level has not been considered to enhance the sound quality of a speaker. Tn this study, a method for speaker design is proposed for a good acoustic characteristic, which is flatness of SPL(sound pressure level) and wideness between the first and second natural frequency. SYSNOISE is used fer acoustic analysis and ANSYS is used for harmonic response analysis and modal analysis. Optimization for acoustic characteristics of a speaker diaphragm is performed using ModelCenter. All analyses are done within a frequency domain. And we confirm that the experimental and computational simulations have similar trend.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1231-1234
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• 1998

Many signal processing methods of widening the sound image for spatial impression have been studied. Most typical methods of widening the sound image are related to the phase shifting and precedence effect. However, these methods are not effective in center sound image. As listener's position moves from center to outside, the center sound image is shifted to the speaker. That is to say, the directional localization of center sound image is unstable. In this paper, we propose a television audio system including center speaker, and analyze the role of center speaker using theory of Makida and precedence effect. In experiments, we confirm the usefulness of the center speaker for the stability of center sound image.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.247-253
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• 2021

소리에 방향성을 부여하여 특정 영역에서만 소리를 들을 수 있도록 활용되는 초음파 스피커는 일반 스피커와 비교하여 음질 및 비용적인 이슈에서 다양한 개선 연구가 지속적으로 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 초음파 스피커의 센서 특성상 500 Hz 미만 저음 구현이 어려운 점을 감안하여 500 Hz 대의 소리를 보완할 수 있도록 일반 스피커와 동시 사용이 가능한 DSP 기반의 하이브리드형 초음파 스피커를 제안한다. 일반 스피커와 초음파 스피커의 단순 연결로 각각의 분리 처리 및 송출하는 시스템은 초음파 재생성 처리 시간 차에 따른 음질저하뿐만 아니라 일반 음원과 초음파 음원이 2개의 앰프로 구동되어 높은 비용 이슈가 있으며 제반 제어적인 측면에서도 어려움이 있다. 이러한 점을 개선하고자 제안한 DSP 기반의 앰프에서 Dynamic Range Control(DRC) 및 Equalizer(EQ)의 기존 코덱 기능은 물론, 초음파 음원으로의 재생성, 일반/초음파 음원을 동기화함으로써 동시 재생이 가능한 하이브리드형 초음파 스피커를 개발하였다.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.80-85
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• 2016

본 연구는 선음원과 점음원의 이론에 근거하여 개발된 혼타입 스피커와 라인어레이 타입 스피커에 대해 비교분석하여 실제에서 이론대로 적용되는지에 대해 연구하였다. 이론적으로 점음원은 거리가 2배 됨에 따라 6dB 감쇄하며, 선음원은 거리가 2배 됨에 따라 3dB 감쇄한다. 선음원 이론에 근거하여 개발된 라인어레이 스피커 시스템이 선음원의 이론대로 작은 음압감쇄가 일어나는지에 대하여 분석하여 사용 목적과 환경에 따른 올바른 스피커의 배열 구성이 선택되도록 하는 것이 본 연구의 목적이다. 이를 위해 점음원과 선음원의 이론을 분석하였으며, 이론을 바탕으로 설계된 혼타입 스피커와 라인어레이 스피커를 시뮬레이션으로 파라메터 값들을 분석하였다.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.1-2
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• 2012

A speaker is a system which produces sound through electromechanical operations. It transforms electronic signals into audible sound signals. Almost all speakers are three dimensional. These days, many mobile electronic devices such as mobile electronic devices have become smaller and thinner. A problem with this miniaturization, however, is that the volume of speakers has also decreased. In contrast to conventional three dimensional speakers, we have invented a new type of two dimensional flexible speaker by utilizing the reverse piezoelectric effect.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.69-77
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• 2002

Speaker verification can be classified in two categories, text-dependent speaker verification and text-independent speaker verification. In this paper, we discuss text-dependent speaker verification. Text-dependent speaker verification system determines whether the sound characteristics of the speaker are equal to those of the specific person or not. In this paper we obtain the speaker data using a sound card in various noisy conditions, apply a new Hidden LMS (Least Mean Square) adaptive algorithm to it, and extract LPC (Linear Predictive Coding)-cepstrum coefficients as feature vectors. Finally, we use a competitive learning neural network for speaker verification. The proposed hidden LMS adaptive filter using a neural network reduces noise and enhances features in various noisy conditions. We construct a separate neural network for each speaker, which makes it unnecessary to train the whole network for a new added speaker and makes the system expansion easy. We experimentally prove that the proposed method improves the speaker verification performance.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.680-687
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• 2009

This paper reports on an improved piezoelectric microspeaker with a high sound pressure level of 90 dB, a total harmonic distortion of less than 15%, and coherence higher than 0.9. The fabricated Pb(Zr,Ti)$O_3$ (PZT) microspeakers have a thickness of only 1 mm including the speaker frame and an active area of 18 mm${\times}$20 mm. To achieve higher sound pressure and lower distortion, the PZT piezoelectric microspeaker has a well-designed speaker frame and a piezoelectric diaphragm consisting of a tilted PZT membrane and silicone buffer layer. From the simulation and measurement results, we confirmed that the silicon buffer layer can lower the first resonant frequency, which enhances the microspeaker's sound pressure at a low frequency range and can also reduce useless distortion generated by the harmonics. The fabricated PZT piezoelectric microspeakers are implemented on a multichannel speaker array system for personal acoustical space generation. The output sound pressure at a 30 cm distance away from the center of the speaker line array is 15 dB higher than the sound pressure at the neighboring region 30 degrees from the vertical axis.