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Analysis of Two-dimensional Sound Field by Integral Equation upon the Periphery

Mario Hirone

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1979 Volume 35 Issue 2 Pages 51-57
Published: February 01, 1979
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20697/jasj.35.2_51

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An integral equation with respect to sound pressure on the periphery of a given two-dimensional area was formulised to analyze two-dimensional sound field. For that purpose, the Hankel function of the second kind was used as a Green's function and applied to Green's theorem. The equation was rewritten in a matrix equation and then numerically calculated by dividing the periphery of two-dimensional area into N sections. The eigenvalue for a rectangle surrounded by a rigid wall was first obtained. The relation between the number of sections N and the accuracy of the calculation was shown. The calculation was also carried out for five kinds of shapes varying from a rectangle to a violin frame. On the basis of the eigenvalues calculated for the two-dimensional sound field isolated from outside, the acoustic significance of the shape of a violin frame was discussed.

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Method of Estimation of Articulation in the Presence of Time-Varying Noise Whose Levels are Normally Distributed : Effects of Time-Varying Noise on Speech Intelligibility Part 2

Toshio Sone, Michiharu Uematsu, Hisanori Kanasashi, Tadamoto Nimura

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1979 Volume 35 Issue 2 Pages 58-62
Published: February 01, 1979
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20697/jasj.35.2_58

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The method of estimating the articulation of speech in the presence of a time-varying noise, whose sound levels are normally distributed, is studied on the basis of articulation index, and the estimated values are compared with the experimental results. If we assume that the level distribution of noise has the median L_&lt50&gtdB(A) and the standard deviation σdB(A), it is shown that the time-varying noise has an effect equivalent to steady noise of which level is larger by |a/2|σ^2 than L_&lt50&gt of the former, as far as the sound articulation is concerned. The value of the constant a is obtained as equal to -0. 112 from the experiment for steady noise. Thus the level of the steady noise equivalent to the time-varying noise is expressed as follows;L_s=L_&lt50&gt+0. 056σ^2. It is shown that this equivalent level corresponds well with the sound articulation obtained experimentally.

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Speaker Verification from Actual Telephone Voice

Akira Ichikawa, Akira Nakajima, Kazuo Nakata

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1979 Volume 35 Issue 2 Pages 63-69
Published: February 01, 1979
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20697/jasj.35.2_63

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Speaker verification is the only method feasible for remote telephone handset user identification without resorting to additional input devices. Studies are made of speaker verification using the microphone input voice as the reference frame for speaker verification of an actual telephone voice. Various parameter sets as autocorrelation coefficients, linear prediction coefficients, PARCOR parameters, and log area ratio are evaluated for several analysis conditions in order to obtain the best parameter set and conditions. A score as high as 99. 8% is obtained with PARCOR parameters under the best analysis condition (see Table 4). Applying the above best parameter set and conditions to actual telephone voice verification directly, poor results of only 65% are obtained. Then a new idea involving average-self-inverse filtering has been proposed which normalizes the effect of linear distortion of actual telephone voice. The combined use of average-self inverse filtering and selected-band-analysis improves verification performance beyond that obtained with PARCOR parameters extracted directly from an actual telephone voice. Further improvement is possible by the additional use of pitch frequency for normalization of nonlinear distortions so that a better than 94% verification score is obtained.

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Detection of Nasal Sounds using Model of Production Process

Katsuhiko Shirai, Teruaki Gomi, Masaaki Honda

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1979 Volume 35 Issue 2 Pages 70-71
Published: February 01, 1979
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20697/jasj.35.2_70

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The Sound World of Orchestra

Takashi Asahina

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1979 Volume 35 Issue 2 Pages 72-79
Published: February 01, 1979
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20697/jasj.35.2_72

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Mechanical Networks and its Application (Part II)

Masashi Konno, Shigeru Oyama, Yoshiro Tomikawa, Sumio Sugawara

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1979 Volume 35 Issue 2 Pages 80-86
Published: February 01, 1979
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Speech Research at LIMSI-CNRS(Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mecanique et les Sciences de l'Ingenieur du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Ryoji Tanaka

Article type: Article
1979 Volume 35 Issue 2 Pages 87-91
Published: February 01, 1979
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20697/jasj.35.2_87

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Article type: Article
1979 Volume 35 Issue 2 Pages 92-
Published: February 01, 1979
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20697/jasj.35.2_92

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