There are many areas were text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis could enhance the end-user experience or even change the behavior of using existing network services starting from simple notification applications to complex presence enabled instant messaging convergent services. For this to happen we may need to bring TTS service in the multi-access area of Internet Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks ...

This paper is about constructing sharable linguistic information to be used across languages for a Text-to-Speech (TTS) system. The data is obtained from existing resources. The focus of the paper is the phonetic and linguistic aspects. A monolingual TTS architecture is introduced with descriptions on each stage of processing. A multilingual TTS architecture is also introduced. Language depende...

Two experiments are reported that constitute new methods for evaluation of text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis from the user’s perspective. Experiment 1, using sentence stimuli, and Experiment 2, using discrete word stimuli, investigate the effect of voice gender and signal quality on the intelligibility of three TTS synthesis systems from the user’s point of view. Accuracy scores and reaction time ...

INTRODUCTION Thoracostomy tubes (TT) are commonly placed in the management of surgical, emergency, and trauma patients and chest radiographs (CXR) and computed tomography (CT) are performed to confirm placement. Ultrasound (US) has not previously been used as a means to confirm intrathoracic placement of chest tubes. This study involves a novel application of US to demonstrate chest tubes passi...

The intelligibility of HMM-based TTS can reach that of the original speech. However, HMM-based TTS is far from natural. On the contrary, unit selection TTS is the most-natural sounding TTS currently. However, its intelligibility and naturalness on segmental duration and timing are not stable. Additionally, unit selection needs to store a huge amount of data for concatenation. Recently, hybrid a...

To the Editor: The interesting case report of Lee et al. published in the December 2013 issue of the Journal, of a 43-year-old woman who suffered inverted takotsubo syndrome (TTS) (left ventricular apical hyperkinesis with midventricular and basal hypokinesis/akinesis) in the setting of complicating pulmonary embolism (PE), following surgery for a malleolar fracture, managed surgically under sp...