Painters and cartographers have developed artistic landscape rendering techniques for centuries. Such renderings can visualize complex three-dimensional landscapes in a pleasing and understandable way. In this work we examine a particular type of artistic depiction, panorama maps, in terms of function and style, and we develop methods to automatically generate panorama map reminiscent rendering...

This article addresses the perceptual identification of French regional accents by listeners from the Paris region and Belgium. It is based on the geographical localisation of about thirty speakers from seven French-speaking areas: Vendee (West of France), Languedoc (South of France), Alsace (East of France), Romand Switzerland, East, Centre and West of Belgium. Contrary to the speake bracket (...

This paper describes the development of HMM based speech synthesizer for Urdu language using the HTStoolkit. It describes the modifications needed to original HTS-Demo-scripts to port them, for Urdu language, which are currently available for English, Japanese and Portuguese. That includes the generation of the fullcontext style labels and the creation of the Question file for Urdu phone set. F...

According to GLOMOsys (the GLObal versus LOcal processing MOdel, a systems account), an important distinction is that between a local and a global processing system: The former processes information in parts, the latter processes it globally. These systems can be activated by perceptual processing and carry over to subsequent conceptual processing, in particular to analytical and creative thoug...

Painters and cartographers have developed artistic landscape rendering techniques for centuries. Such renderings can visualize complex three-dimensional landscapes in a pleasing and understandable way. In this work we examine a particular type of artistic depiction, panorama maps, in terms of function and style, and we develop methods to automatically generate panorama map reminiscent rendering...

Evaluating the efficacy of accent transformation is important when localising speech-enabled software. However, perceived accent is an attribute assigned by a listener, and the apparent success of accent transformation will vary with the audience. Here we show the extent to which evaluations can be affected by audience familiarity with an accent. A perceptual study comparing two approaches to a...

This study makes use of advances in automatic speech processing to analyse French audiovisual archives and the perception of the journalistic style evolution regarding prosody. Three perceptual experiments were run, using prosody transplantation, delexicalisation and imitation. Results show that the fundamental frequency and duration correlates of prosody enable old-fashioned recordings to be d...

Perceptual representations pick out individuals and attribute properties to them. This paper considers the role of perceptual attribution in determining or guiding reference objects. We consider three extant models relation between reference–all guides reference, no a privileged subset attributions reference–and argue that empirical evidence undermines all three. then defend flexible-attributiv...