In this paper a method for speech output generation in data-to-speech systems is proposed, called phrase concatenation, which tries to nd a balance between naturalness and exibility of the speech output. The GoalGetter system , which generates spoken monologues on football matches, serves as an example. The phrase concatenation technique involves concatenating prerecor-ded words and phrases, wh...

The recently discovered \trilinear tensor" has been shown to play a similar role to the \funda-mental" matrix, but with three views instead of two views, in representing the relative motion parameters of an observer moving in the 3D projective world. The issue of a general representation for any number of views remains an open problem. The main result presented here is the closed-form concatena...

When a logical qubit is protected using a quantum error-correcting code, the net effect of coding, decoherence ~a physical channel acting on qubits in the codeword! and recovery can be represented exactly by an effective channel acting directly on the logical qubit. In this paper we describe a procedure for deriving the map between physical and effective channels that results from a given codin...

Concatenative speech synthesis quality depends in part on the minimization of audible discontinuities between two successive concatenated units. This study focuses on human detection of concatenation discontinuities in synthetic speech. Statistical analyses compared for various phonetic categories the results observed in perceptual tests with two voices – one female and one male. Neither a comp...

Motor chunking facilitates movement production by combining motor elements into integrated units of behavior. Previous research suggests that chunking involves two processes: concatenation, aimed at the formation of motor-motor associations between elements or sets of elements, and segmentation, aimed at the parsing of multiple contiguous elements into shorter action sets. We used fMRI to measu...

We compared the most accurate multi-locus inference method (MLE-length) to two concatenation methods which include NeighborNet [1] and the least squares method of Schliep [2], which we refer to here as SplitsNet. We ran the concatenation methods using their default settings. The splits distance was used to evaluate the topological error, which quantifies the proportion of bipartitions that diff...

The gene tree and species tree problem remains a central problem in phylogenomics. To overcome this problem, gene concatenation approaches have been used to combine a certain number of genes randomly from a set of widely distributed orthologous genes selected from genome data to conduct phylogenetic analysis. The random concatenation mechanism prevents us from the further investigations of the ...

The family of deterministic input-driven pushdown automata (IDPDA; a.k.a. visibly pushdown automata, a.k.a. nested word automata) is known to be closed under reversal, concatenation and Kleene star. As shown by Alur and Madhusudan (“Visibly pushdown languages”, STOC 2004), the reversal and the Kleene star of an n-state IDPDA can be represented by an IDPDA with 2 2) states, while concatenation o...

The astonishing performance of concatenated codes attracted many researchers and this has resulted in an explosive amount of literature since their introduction few years ago. As concatenation between codes did not actually arise from applying a pre-existing theory, most of their outstanding features remain to be explained. This paper gives some explanation of the concatenation between Reed Sol...

The paper argues that the structure, derivation and evolution of syntax is given by the sequence (elements, concatenation, embedding). We discuss the implications of this sequence for language and the numeral system in general and on the evolution of language in particular. A four-stage model of the evolution of syntax, broadly compatible with several earlier scenarios, is proposed. The four st...