Recently, voice conversion has becoming the research hotspot, because of its widely application areas. However, the voice conversion technology is still immature. By the researching of existing voice conversion models, the voice conversion system based on the RBF neutral network was designed, and the system simulation was implemented. During conversion, the unvoiced speech was excluded and the ...

In this paper we discuss conversion methods from the conjunctive normal form (CNF) to the algebraic normal form (ANF) of a Boolean function. Whereas the reverse conversion has been studied before, the CNF to ANF conversion has been achieved predominantly via a standard method which tends to produce many polynomials of high degree. Based on a block-building mechanism, we design a new blockwise a...

Voice conversion is a technique for producing utterances using any target speakers’ voice from a single source speaker’s utterance. In this paper, we apply cross-language voice conversion between Japanese and English to a system based on a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) method and STRAIGHT, a high quality vocoder. To investigate the effects of this conversion system across different languages, we...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to specify a simple procedure for a robust data conversion of radioactivity value between plastic scintillator (PL) and NaI scintillator (NaI) devices. MATERIALS AND METHODS The radioactivity estimate of 100 blood samples was measured by the two devices. The two radioactivities were plotted on the same graph. The least-squares method was applied to obtain ...

In the search for a unified basis for constructing food-web models, the long-standing discrepancy between biomass conversion (BC) and individual survival (IS) modeling has been revitalized by Ginzburg (J. Anim. Ecol. 67 (1998) 325) and Berryman (J. Anim. Ecol. 68 (1999) 1263) in the context of resourceeconsumer interactions. In this work, the principles underlying the confronting approaches are...

Voice conversion (VC) can be seen as a powerful technology for customizing Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems. This paper deals with the integration of a VC method based on Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) in a TTS system. In this framework, an algorithm that enables complexity reduction of the VC processing is proposed. The main idea is to restrict the conversion function to the most representative comp...

In most state-of-the-art voice conversion systems, speech quality of converted utterances is still unsatisfactory. In this paper, STRAIGHT analysis-synthesis framework is used to improve the quality. A smoothed GMM and MAP adaptation is proposed for spectrum conversion to avoid the overly smooth phenomenon in the traditional GMM method. Since frames are processed independently, the GMM based tr...

Growth of prostate cancer cells is dependent upon androgen stimulation of the androgen receptor (AR). Dihydrotestosterone (DHT), the most potent androgen, is usually synthesized in the prostate from testosterone secreted by the testis. Following chemical or surgical castration, prostate cancers usually shrink owing to testosterone deprivation. However, tumors often recur, forming castration-res...

Insertion of additional octarepeats into the prion protein gene has been genetically linked to familial Creutzfeldt Jakob disease and hence to de novo generation of infectious prions. The pivotal event during prion formation is the conversion of the normal prion protein (PrPC) into the pathogenic conformer PrPSc, which subsequently induces further conversion in an autocatalytic manner. Apparent...

BACKGROUND Conversion from a calcineurin inhibitor to sirolimus has been used as a strategy to improve deteriorating renal allograft function but the efficacy and safety of this intervention is unknown. METHODS We performed a systematic review of studies that involved conversion from a calcineurin inhibitor to sirolimus in kidney transplantation. The search yielded five randomized trials (n=1...