• 음성과학
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• 제3권
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• pp.132-147
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• 1998

Previously developed methods for pitch modification have not been based on the voice source model. Therefore, the synthesized speech often sounds unnatural although it may be highly intelligible. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the alteration of a voice source signal with pitch period and to establish the pitch-modification rule based on the result of this analysis. We examine the alteration of the interval of closing phase, closed phase and open phase using the excitation waveform as the pitch increases. In comparison to the previous methods which performed directly on the speech signal, the pitch modification method based on a voice source model shows high intelligibility and naturalness. This study might benefit the application to the speaker identification and the voice color conversion. Therefore the proposed method will provide high quality synthetic speech.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2002년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.511-516
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• 2002

Pitch is a perception related to the subjective frequency that is one of the psychological aspects or attributes of tones. It is also an important factor to determine the sound quality together with loudness and timber. Although the study on pitch has been active in the field of speech communication, but its application to the product sound quality is not yet enough. In this study, the empirical data by Zwicker is made use in the modification of the currently available pitch extraction model based on the place theory. By applying this modified model to various sound samples composed of tonal or banded components, the applicability of the model is suggested. As a demonstration example, the algorithm is used for the sound quality analysis of a product noise having fundamental frequency and harmonics. The result shows that the pitch should be regarded as an important subjective cue in the sound quality analysis.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2002년도 추계학술대회논문초록집
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• pp.354.1-354
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• 2002

Pitch is a perception related to frequency, one of the psychological aspects or attributes of tones, and an important factor to determine sound quality of sound together with loudness and timber. while a study on pitch has been actively achieved In the part of speech recognition and speech separation, that for analysis and improvement of product sound quality is not yet enough. (omitted)

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.1-8
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• 1993

The cases and the treatments of the rotational speed losses of marine propellers are examined and practical modification methods are discussed. The cutting of the propeller diameter, the modification of propeller pitch and the propeller blade edge modification are briefly reviewed. An example for the propeller blade edge modification, which is regarded to have advantages in cost and workmanship, is presented for a propeller of a large ship.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.101-113
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• 1986

In this paper, a real-time pitch detector LPC vocoder as implemented on a high speed digital signal processor, NEC 7720, is described. The pitch detector was based mainly on the SIFT algorithm. The SIFT pitch detector consists primarily of a digital low pass filter, inverse filter, computation of autocorrelation, a peak picker, interpolation, V/UV defcision and a final pitch smoother. In our approach, modification, mainly on the V/UV decision and a final pitch smoother, was made to estimate more accurate pitches. An 16-bit fixed-point aithmatic was employed for all necessary computation and the simulated results were compared with the eye detected pitches obtained from real speech data. The pitch detector occupies 98.8% of the instruction ROM, 37% of the data ROM, and 94% of internal RAM and takes 15.2ms to estimate a pitch when an analysis frame is consisted of 128 sampled speech data. It is observed that the tested results were well agreed with the computer simulation results.

• 공업화학
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.402-406
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 납사 크래킹 잔사유로부터 용융전기방사용 핏치가 열처리 개질 방법에 의하여 제조되었다. 개질된 핏치의 연화점과 물성은 질소유량, 열처리 온도 및 반응시간 같은 개질 조건에 따라 영향을 받았다. 이중에서 열처리온도가 핏치의 분자량 분포 및 연화점에 큰 영향력을 미쳤다. 열처리 온도가 증가함에 따라서 표면 작용기들의 분해와 고리화 반응으로 C/H 몰비와 평균분자량이 증가하였다. 또한, 벤젠 불용분(BI)과 퀴놀린 불용분(QI)값이 감소되었고, 분자량 분포의 폭이 더 좁아지는 것으로 보여주었다. 연화점이 $155^{\circ}C$인 개질 핏치로부터 용융전기방사법을 이용하여 $4.8{\mu}m$의 직경을 갖는 탄소섬유를 얻을 수 있었다. 용융전기방사법이 저섬경화 섬유를 제조하는데 기존의 용융방사법보다 더 용이할 것으로 여겨진다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제20권4E호
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• pp.24-30
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• 2001

This paper describes a fast harmonic estimation, referred to as Delta Adjustment (DA), using a low resolution pitch. The presented DA method is based on modification of the Generalized Dual Excitation (GDE) technique[1] which was proposed to improve speech enhancement performance. We introduce the GDE technique and modify it to be suitable for low bit rate harmonic coding that uses only an integer pitch estimate. Unlike the GDE, the DA matches a frequency-warped version of the original spectrum that conforms to a fixed pitch at all harmonic bands. In addition, complexity and performance of the presented method are described in comparison with those of the conventional Fractional Pitch (FP) based harmonic estimation. Experimental results showed that the DA algorithm significantly reduces the complexity of the FP method while maintaining the performance.

• 음성과학
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2001

New speech synthesis algorithms capable of flexible prosody (especially F0) modification are desired for a high quality TTS system. TD-PSOLA is the most popular synthesis algorithm. The algorithm shows very high quality when F0 modification is limited. However, the quality degradation due to pitch epoch detection error becomes severe as the F0 modification factor becomes large. On the other hand, the vocoder framework is very flexible in F0 manipulation. The synthesized speech quality from the vocoder is far from natural human speech and suffers from buzziness. To remedy the buzzy quality from the vocoder and make more natural synthetic speech, we propose a mixed phase vocoder.

• Carbon letters
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.13-16
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• 2002

The modification of coal-tar pitch has been carried out by heat treatment of pitch at different temperatures in the range ($300^{\circ}-400^{\circ}C$) for different times (2-5 hrs) in air and nitrogen. The pitch heat treated in air at lower temperature ($300^{\circ}C$) exhibit increase in softening point by $20^{\circ}C$ as compared to only $2^{\circ}C$ when treated in nitrogen. The changes are faster in air than in pure nitrogen. Pitch as such as well as after heat treatment were further treated with metal complexes by solution route. Silver intake has been found to increase from 0.5 to 0.8 % in nitrogen treated pitch while the uptake is found to decrease for pitches treated in air at $350^{\circ}C$ for 5 hrs. Experiments have also been made to incorporate silver into PAN and PAN-ox fibers through solution route. The metal intake has been found to be more in PAN-ox fibers than in PAN as such. Metal loaded carbon composites have been made by using metal loaded fibers as well as cokes. These composites as such exhibit higher surface oxygen complexes but decrease after activation.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.50-61
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• 1995

본 논문에서는 음성 신호가 가지고 있는 중요한 특성을 유지하면서 발음 속도만을 변화시키는 시간축 변환 방법을 범용 디지탈 신호 처리 프로세서를 이용하여 실시간으로 구현하였다. 음성 신호 시간축 변환은 음성 신호의 발음 속도만을 변화시키기 때문에, 입력 신호와 변환 신호간의 시간적 차이가 발생하여 실시간 처리가 불가능하다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 입력, 변환 신호간의 시간차를 해결하기 위해서, 카세트 테이프 레코더의 모터 회전 속도를 조절하는 것과 같은 물리적 시간축 변환으로, 입력 음성 신호를 느리게 또는 빠르게 변환시켜 그 신호를 실시간 시스템의 입력으로 사용하였다. 카세트 레코더의 주행 속도만을 조절하는 물리적 변환은 원 신호의 피치 정보를 왜곡시켜, 원 음성의 특성을 변화시키기 때문에, 본 연구에서는 FIR 필터를 이용한 피치 보정 기법으로 왜곡된 신호를 원신호로 복원한 후, SOLA 시간축 변환 방법을 이용하여, 복원된 신호를 카세트 레코더의 모터 속도에 맞추어 시간축으로 변환하는 시스템을 실시간으로 구현하였다. 구현된 알고리듬으로 음성 신호를 시간축으로 변환하는 실험에서, 16비트 해상도를 가진 ADSP2101 프로세서로 구현한 결과와 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 결과를 비교할 때 평균 구간 신호 대 오차비가 대략 20dB로 두 결과가 거의 유사함을 알 수 있었다.