This paper describes a study of speaking-style characteristics, or “tone-of-voice”, in conversational speech, and shows that non-verbal information is transmitted efficiently regardless of cultural and linguistic contexts through differences in prosodic and voice-quality features. We asked Korean and American listeners with no previous kowledge of Japanese to judge the meaning of various uttera...

We prove a lemma which, under restrictive conditions, shows that epimorphisms in V are surjective if this is true for epimorphisms from irreducible members of V . This lemma is applied to varieties of orthomodular lattices which are generated by orthomodular lattices of bounded height, and to varieties of orthomodular lattices which are generated by orthomodular lattices which are the horizonta...

Quality and price was a major discriminator in the 1980’s. Now Time to market dictates. Global Competitiveness in manufacturing is characterized by an increasing rate of change of product specification. Complex and dynamic value chains and product and service delivery mechanisms match it. This paper presents a framework, which combines different lifecycles in a hierarchical structure to support...

When reviewing his clinical experience in treating suicidal patients, one of the authors observed that successful predictions of suicidality were often based on the patient’s voice independent of content. In this study we investigated the discriminating power of an excitation-based speech parameter, the glottal flow spectrum. There were two sets of subjects, male and female. Each set consisted ...

The existing audio retrieval systems fall into one of two categories: single-domain systems that can accept data of only a single type (e.g. speech) or multiple-domain systems that offer content-based retrieval for multiple types of audio data. Since a single-domain system has limited applications, a multiple-domain system will be more useful. However, different types of audio data will have di...