Blurring Lines: Learning Belongs in the Library: Three Reasns This Must Eventually Be So

Must diphone synthesis be so unnatural?

An English utterance was synthesized in four versions using sets of diphones produced under four different prosodic and contextual conditions. The synthesis used either accented diphones only or appropriately located accented and unaccented diphones, with each of these conditions being repeated using neutral-context and differentiated-context diphones. They were presented to two listener groups...

What Goes Up Must Come Down, Eventually

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You Must Remember This

With great interest, I have been observing the developments in continuous lifelong capture, which has been gaining momentum over the last few years. By lifelong capture, I refer to someone digitally logging every moment and element of their lives, a usually permanent recording of an activity by a participant in the activity. This process often results in the unanticipated capture of valuable mo...

Microfinance and Mobile Banking: Blurring the Lines?

to emerge in the Philippines. After being in the wholesale microfinance lending business for two years, BanKO (which is licensed as a savings and thrift bank) was ready to jump into retail microfinance by using the mobile phone as its main channel. With years of experience at Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Teresita Tan knew all too well the high cost of bran...

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