• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37B no.11
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• pp.1004-1013
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• 2012

The legacy voice broadcast systems are used to broadcast the voice over an entire space or a specific zone. these broadcast systems generate unnecessary noise and waste of resources. In this paper, we propose a ubiquitous voice message broadcast system called uPaging, by combining the technique of location-awareness and the voice message delivery service in ubiquitous sensor network environment. In uPaging system, the wire/wireless hybrid network is used to implement the network system. Also, in order to actualize the location-awareness service, we use the Bidirectional Location ID-Exchange protocol was suggested by our previous research. the uPaging system can deliver the voice to a selected user or the location in which the user is present by this location awareness.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.56-65
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• 2023

In broadcasts such as news and coverage programs, voice is modulated to protect the identity of the informant. Adjusting the pitch is commonly used voice modulation method, which allows easy voice restoration to the original voice by adjusting the pitch. Therefore, since broadcast voice modulation methods cannot properly protect the identity of the speaker and are vulnerable to security, a new voice modulation method is needed to replace them. In this paper, using the Lightweight speech de-identification model as the evaluation target model, we compare speech de-identification performance with broadcast voice modulation method using pitch modulation. Among the six modulation methods in the Lightweight speech de-identification model, we experimented on the de-identification performance of Korean speech as a human test and EER(Equal Error Rate) test compared with broadcast voice modulation using three modulation methods: McAdams, Resampling, and Vocal Tract Length Normalization(VTLN). Experimental results show VTLN modulation methods performed higher de-identification performance in both human tests and EER tests. As a result, the modulation methods of the Lightweight model for Korean speech has sufficient de-identification performance and will be able to replace the security-weak broadcast voice modulation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.179-180
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• 2014

The main goal of this paper is to present an adaptive filter system using NLMS(Normalized Least mean square) adaptive algorithm for noise cancellation. The proposed algorithm has less computational complexity and better convergence property than the former algorithms like spectral subtraction algorithm, etc. We use TIMIT criterion voice and Noisex-92 for the experiment. The experimental result shows the feasibility of our algorithm for filtering noise from voice effectively.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.771-774
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• 2013

This study investigates the relationship between voice quality measurements and emotional states, in addition to conventional prosodic and cepstral features. Open quotient, harmonics-to-noise ratio, spectral tilt, spectral sharpness, and band energy were analyzed as voice quality features, and prosodic features related to fundamental frequency and energy are also examined. ANOVA tests and Sequential Forward Selection are used to evaluate significance and verify performance. Classification experiments show that using the proposed features increases overall accuracy, and in particular, errors between happy and angry decrease. Results also show that adding voice quality features to conventional cepstral features leads to increase in performance.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.48-55
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• 2014

One of the recent noticeable evolutions in mobile communication systems is that wideband-codec is deployed rapidly in VoLTE (Voice over Long Term Evolution) service or HD voice. This paper is concerned with next generation HD voice or VoLTE service that is coined to describe high quality communication with super-wideband voice codec. 3GPP EVS (Enhanced Voice Service) Codec is being standardized to develop the super-wideband voice codec. This paper deals with the codec design constraints, performance requirements, the status of standardization, and finally perspective on VoLTE service in future.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.111-118
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• 1999

Recently computer can make cyberspace to walk through by an interactive virtual reality technique. An a avatar in cyberspace can bring us a virtual face-to-face communication environment. In this paper, an avatar is realized which has a real face in cyberspace and a multiuser communication system is constructed by voice transmitted through network. Voice from microphone is transmitted and analyzed, then mouth shape and facial expression of avatar are synchronously estimated and synthesized on real time. And also an entertainment application of a real-time voice driven synthetic face is introduced and this is an example of interactive movie. Finally, face motion capture system using physics based face model is introduced.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.612-621
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• 2008

Due to the various constraints such as feasible size of data payload and low transmission power, no technical specifications on the voice communication are included in the Zigbee standard. In this paper, a voice coding technique for application to the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, which is the basis of Zigbee communication, is presented. Here, both high compression and good waveform recovery are essential. To meet those requirements, a multi-stage discrete wavelet transform (DWT) block and a binary coding block consisting of two different pulse-code modulations are exploited. Theoretical analysis and simulation results in an indoor wireless channel show that the voice coder with 2-stage DWT is most appropriate from the viewpoint of compression and waveform recovery. When the line-of-sight component is dominant, the voice coding scheme has good recovery capability even in the moderate signal-to-noise power ratios. Hence, it is considered that the presented scheme will be a technical reference for the future recommendation of voice communication exploiting Zigbee.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.9-16
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• 2004

In this paper, we present a speech enhancement method as a pre-processor for voice commander under car environment. For the friendly and safe use of voice commander in a running car, non-stationary audio signals such as music and non-candidate speech should be reduced. Ow technique is a two microphone-based one. It consists of two parts Blind Source Separation (BSS) and Kalman filtering. Firstly, BSS is operated as a spatial filter to deal with non-stationary signals and then car noise is reduced by kalman filtering as a temporal filter. Algorithm Performance is tested for speech recognition. And the results show that our two microphone-based technique can be a good candidate to a voice commander.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1998.06b
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• pp.122-127
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• 1998

In this paper, we focus on the information retrieval of human individuals who are recorded on the video database. Our purpose is to index persons by their faces or voice and to retrieve their existing time sections on the video data. The database system can track as well as extract a face or voice of a certain person and construct a model of the individual person in self-organization mode. If he appears again at different time, the system can put the mark of the same person to the associated frames. In this way, the same person can be retrieved even if the system does not know his exact name. As the face and speaker modeling, a subspace method is employed to improve the indexing accuracy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.236-239
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• 2022

증강현실로 날씨, 뉴스 요약 등이 제공되거나 AI 비서 기능을 제공하는 스마트 미러(smart mirror)가 개발되고 있다. 본 작품에서는 IoT 통합제어, 뉴스 요약 및 날씨 정보 제공 등의 서비스를 하나의 웹 플랫폼으로 구축하고 이를 손가락 제스쳐 및 음성 명령으로 제어하는 것을 제안하고 구현하였다. 본 작품에서는 음성 인식을 통해 IoT 서비스를 직관적으로 이용할 수 있게끔 설계하여 사용자의 편의성을 높였으며, 디바이스를 직접 터치하는 방식이 아닌 finger gesture로 제어하는 방식을 채택해, 디바이스 유지 보수 및 위생 문제를 해결하였다. 단순 IoT 통합 제어 기능뿐만 아니라 다양한 컨텐츠 및 기능을 제공함으로써 통합 플랫폼의 기능을 수행할 수 있도록 하였다. 뉴스 홈페이지에서 Crawling한 뉴스를 text rank 알고리즘을 이용. 자동으로 요약하는 기능과, 사용자의 IP를 기반으로 위도와 경도를 추론, 해당 지역의 일기 예보 정보를 표현해 주는 등 단순 IoT 제어 플랫폼이 아닌, 통합 플랫폼의 기능을 다하도록 설계하였다. 이처럼 다양한 정보를 압축해서 사용자가 편하게 볼 수 있도록 제공하며, 직관적인 two track 제어 방식을 채택. 사용 대상의 편의성을 증대시켜 본 프로젝트는 기존 프로젝트보다 사용자에게 더 나은 사용 경험을 제공할 것이다.