An approach to multilingual acou devices

Reflections by Robert Phillipson on English in Post-Revolutionary Iran. From Indigenization to Internationalization, M. Borjian (2013) Multilingual Matters, ISBN 978-1847699091

FACTS Devices Allocation to Congestion Alleviation Incorporating Voltage Dependence of Loads

This paper presents a novel optimization based methodology to allocate Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) devices in an attempt to improve the previously mentioned researches in this field. Static voltage stability enhancement, voltage profile improvement, line congestion alleviation, and FACTS devices investment cost reduction, have been considered, simultaneously, as objective funct...

The Multilingual City: Vitality, Conflict, and Change, Edited by Lid King & Lorna Carson (2006), Multilingual Matters, ISBN-13 978-1-78309-477-6

A scalable architecture for multilingual speech recognition on embedded devices

In-car infotainment and navigation devices are typical examples where speech based interfaces are successfully applied. While classical applications are monolingual, such as voice commands or monolingual destination input, the trend goes towards multilingual applications. Examples are music player control or multilingual destination input. As soon as more languages are considered the training a...

Transculturation and Multilingual Lives: Writing between Languages and Cultures

This paper looks at the issues of transculturation as explored in auto and semi-autobiographical accounts of linguistic and cultural transitions. The paper also addresses a number of questions about the structure of these texts, the authors’ linguistic competences, as well as questions about the theoretical and conceptual tool which may help us to discuss the issues the writers are reflecting o...