A major factor which causes a deterioration in speech quality in HMM-based speech synthesis is the use of a simple delta pulse signal to generate the excitation of voiced speech. ...
Abstract: Education is changing, following changes in society. The focus is shifting from teaching towards learning. And Informatics, more particularly Information and Communicatio...
We consider an environment where one or more servers carry databases that are of interest to a community of clients. The clients are only intermittently connected to the server fo...
Sameer Mahajan, Michael J. Donahoo, Shamkant B. Na...
ind this work was to extract a relatively abstract level of information from each sentence , using only a limited vocabulary that was hand-crafted to handle a restricted set of tar...
Wendy G. Lehnert, Claire Cardie, David Fisher, Ell...
Most studies of software evolution have been performed on systems developed within a single company using traditional management techniques. With the widespread availability of se...