'Spoken Portrait' - Head Description

A Iv Dynasty Portrait Head

At the turn of the century scholars of Egyptian art were startled by the appearance of life-size portrait heads in excavations at Gizeh, the site of a large necropolis of the Old Kingdom. Until their discovery it was considered an almost invariable rule that private sculpture of the period represented types, not individuals. The Sheikh el Beled and several other representations of individuals w...

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Born in 1944, I grew up in a world in which polio was both a gripping fear and real threat. Then in a matter of a few years-polio was eradicated by a vaccine developed by Jonas Salk. Later I learned that Salk's efforts were built on pioneering work of many others, including John Enders, Thomas Weller and Frederick Robbins (Nobelists, 1954), and David Bodian, who pioneered studies of polio patho...

A PROBABILISTIC DESCRIPTION OF MAN−MACHINE SPOKEN COMMUNICATION (WedAmPO1)

Speech enabled interfaces and spoken dialog sys−tems are mostly based on statistical speech and language processing modules. Their behavior is therefore not deterministic and hardly predictable. This makes the simulation and the optimization of such systems performances difficult, as well as the reuse of previous work to build new systems. In the aim of a partially automated optimization of suc...

Customisation and quality assessment of spoken language description

This paper describes a world-wide web based system which allows a speech data corpus developer to interact with a system for the comprehensive description of a spoken language data corpus. The interface at the browser allows the user to define the speaking environment that is to be described and then progressively to describe it and all the data files arising from it in a modular fashion. The q...

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