This article analyses two films about the Irish republican prison protests and hunger strikes of 1981 – Terry George’s Some Mother’s Son (1996) Steve McQueen’s Hunger (2008) as countermemories dominant British media coverage strikes. Focusing on use voice/image prime minister Margaret Thatcher in these films, asks for what purpose to effect clips recordings are employed suggests that Thatcher’s...

This paper describes a proposed comfort noise system for a network echo canceller. In this system, any residual echo is suppressed using a single threshold centre-clipper, but instead of transmitting silence to the far-end of the network, a synthetic version of the background sounds is sent. This masks any ‘noise modulation’ or ‘noise pumping’ that may otherwise occur. The background sounds are...

Early blind persons have often been shown to be superior to sighted ones across a wide range of non-visual perceptual abilities, which in turn are often explained by the functionally relevant recruitment of occipital areas. While voice stimuli are known to involve voice-selective areas of the superior temporal sulcus (STS) in sighted persons, it remains unknown if the processing of vocal stimul...

1. introduction cultural infrastructure in adopting appropriate teaching and learning methods in efl classes is crucial. the meaning of silence is culture-bound and cultural guidelines govern when and why one employs silence. learning to speak and write in english in iranian efl classrooms seems to be a process of challenging one’s values. iranian efl learners, with a “silence is gold” mentalit...

This paper addresses the problem of the mismatch between a silence model and background noises which often occurs in a telephone speech recognition system (SRS) application. At first, the use of parallel model combination (PMC) methods is studied with the respect to this application. Secondly, the effective adaptation of a silence model to various background noises is confirmed. Finally, an ori...

----------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT-----------------------------------------------------------------In voice activity based communication Choi et al show that using of mutual silence period to do the vertical handover (VHO) is a perfect choice to minimize the packet loss. However according to their proposal, after starting the VHO and before completing it, i...

This article explores the mystical experience of Sainte Therese Avila, mainly voice silence as a metaphor for spiritual transformation, more known specifically dark night soul. Developing simple and efficient literary language, Saint has built founding principles discourse marked by its social religious conditions, which have motivated emergence writing characterized immediacy efficiency, mostl...

Today, organizations are witnessing a destructive phenomenon called enterprise silence. The refusal of employees to provide their ideas and about organizational issues, ultimately leads to organizational degration and recession. This research intends to identify the factors that affect silence in organizations in order to come up with the best solutions to resolve this problem. This is an appli...

Seeking roots of language, we probed infant facial expressions and vocalizations. Both have roles in language, but the voice plays an especially flexible role, expressing a variety of functions and affect conditions with the same vocal categories-a word can be produced with many different affective flavors. This requirement of language is seen in very early infant vocalizations. We examined the...

-Steganography is the hiding of a secret message within an ordinary message and the extraction of secret message at its destination. In digital steganography, electronic communications may include steganographic coding inside of a transport layer, such as a document file, image file, program or protocol. This paper describes how to segregate the audio that are streaming in the Voice over Intern...