Acoustical Science and Technology
Online ISSN : 1347-5177
Print ISSN : 1346-3969
ISSN-L : 0369-4232
Volume 26, Issue 4
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  • Kazuhiko Ohta, Kouki Okabe, Itaru Morishita, Shunji Ozaki, George V. F ...
    2005 Volume 26 Issue 4 Pages 326-337
    Published: 2005
    Released on J-STAGE: July 01, 2005
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    Low frequency sound propagation features and bottom sediment properties in shallow water were studied in the Shallow Water Acoustic Technology (SWAT) experiments conducted in the East China Sea. In these experiments, a hydraulic-type acoustic source was towed over a range of some 30 km at constant mid-water depth and transmitted low-frequency cw signals, which were received on a bottom-moored vertical line array. After suppressing a time-dependent factor of the received signals, the asymptotic Hankel transform was applied to the acoustic field provided by the resulting synthetic aperture horizontal array that was created at each receiver depth. The horizontal wavenumber spectra thus obtained had peaks corresponding to mode, but these peak positions were observed to be slightly different among the different receiver depths partially due to noise and range dependency. Thus, stochastic mode inversion was exploited by using all of the identified peak positions for estimation of the geoacoustic properties. The sound field simulated using the estimated properties was compared with the measured one for each receiver depth and an excellent agreement was confirmed not only at the frequency used for the inversion but also at the different frequency.
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  • Xisheng Li, Kentaro Nakamura, Sadayuki Ueha
    2005 Volume 26 Issue 4 Pages 338-344
    Published: 2005
    Released on J-STAGE: July 01, 2005
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    A method of canceling parametric-effect-induced error in airborne ultrasound Doppler velocimetry is presented. In airborne ultrasound Doppler velocimetry, the received ultrasound signal contains phase modulation due to the nonlinear parametric effect in addition to the direct Doppler effect resulting from the vibration velocity of the specimen. The authors investigate the dependence of the size and frequency of the vibrating surface on the parametric effect. By measuring the acoustic pressure generated by the target vibration, the parametric effect is taken into account to estimate the vibrating velocity. The results show that the measurement error becomes smaller than that without cancellation. For example, for a body of 100 mm diameter vibrating at a frequency of 1.5 kHz, the error reduction is over 50%.
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  • Kanako Ueno, Takako Kanamori, Hideki Tachibana
    2005 Volume 26 Issue 4 Pages 345-352
    Published: 2005
    Released on J-STAGE: July 01, 2005
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    In order to investigate the effect of room acoustic conditions on music players, subjective experiments on professional musicians using digital sound field simulation technique were conducted. In the simulation system, two anechoic rooms were acoustically connected and the situation where two musicians play in ensemble on a hall stage has been virtually realized. Using this system, subjective experiment for ease of chamber music performance on professional musicians was performed and the preferable condition for ensemble performance was investigated. From the experimental results, the relationships between physical characteristics and psychological judgments by the musicians were considered.
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TECHNICAL REPORT
  • Satoru Fujita, Kiyoshi Honda
    2005 Volume 26 Issue 4 Pages 353-357
    Published: 2005
    Released on J-STAGE: July 01, 2005
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    Solid models of the vocal tract with hypopharyngeal cavities were molded with a stereolithographic technique based on MRI data obtained from a male speaker during the production of Japanese vowels /a/ and /o/. A vowel synthesis experiment conducted with the models revealed a relatively good agreement in the second and third formants, as well as in anti-resonance at 4–5 kHz. The elimination of the models’ piriform fossa resulted in the disappearance of the anti-resonance and shifts of the adjacent formants. The modification of the laryngeal cavity into a uniform tube caused spectral changes in the frequency range of 1.5–7.0 kHz. These acoustic effects of hypopharyngeal cavities were dependent on vocal tract shapes.
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