To investigate the difficulties in communication, socialization abilities, and emotion perception deficits in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), we propose the project SARA. Its main goal is to assess how abstracted emotional facial expressions influence the categorization of the emotions by children and adolescents with highfunctioning ASD. This paper focuses on the first pilot ...

PhoneStation is a system that provides a Sun Microsystems SPARCstation† with complete control over an ordinary telephone line. It consists of a telephone line interface unit with loop control and touch tone detection, a suite of supporting software libraries that include digital signal processing for call progress monitoring, text-to-speech conversion, telephone line control, 2. PhoneStation Sy...

The design objective is to come up with a mower that is portable, durable, easy to operate and maintain. It also aims to design a selfpowered mower of electrical source; a cordless electric lawn mower. The heart of the machine is a battery-powered dc electric motor. It comprises of a system of speed multiplication pulleys which drive the cutting blades and the charging unit comprising of a 12V ...

Automatic transcription of telephone speech involves additional challenges compared to wideband data processing, mainly due to channel limitations and to particular characteristics of conversational telephone speech. While in TV speech recognition applications, such as automatic transcription of broadcast news, the presence of telephone data is nearly insignificant (less than 1 %), in most radi...

background: various strategies such as teaching self care to hemodialysis patients have been employed to increase the level of their hope. this study aimed at examining the effects of a telephone follow-up program on the level of hope in a self care education program. methods: in this single-blind randomized controlled clinical trial, 75 hemodialysis patients, selected by convenient sampling, w...

a parallel hybrid system of hmm and gmm modeling techniques was implemented and used in a telephony speaker verification and identification system. spectral subtraction and weighted projection measure were used to render this system more robust against additional noise. cepstral mean subtraction method was also applied for the compensation of convolution noise due to transmission channel degrad...

BACKGROUND To address three methodological challenges when attempting to measure patients' experiences and views of a system of inter-related health services rather than a single service: the feasibility of a population survey for identifying system users, the optimal recall period for system use, and the mode of administration which is most feasible and representative in the context of routine...