VoIP, one of emerging technologies, offers high quality of real time voice services over IP-based broadband networks; however, the quality of voice would easily be degraded by IP network impairments such as delay, jitter and packet loss, hereon initiate the presence of new technologies to help solve out the problems. Among those, playout buffer at the receiving end can compensate for the jitter...

This essay explores new models of the citizen-patient by attending to the post-Revolutionary blind 'voice'. Voice, in both a literal and figurative sense, was central to the way in which members of the Hospice des Quinze-Vingts, an institution for the blind and partially sighted, interacted with those in the community. Musical voices had been used by members to collect alms and to project the p...

Research shows that withholding safety concerns on encountering hazards – silence is a critical contributor to accidents. Studies therefore aim prevent accidental harm through interventions for reducing silence. Yet, the behaviour remains poorly understood, obstructing effective management: it unclear what extent involves muted voice (the partial of concerns), and how can be recognised in speec...

this study aimed to evaluate the effects of auditory-verbal rehabilitation on voice parameters after implantation with cochlear implants 2 and 5 months after rehabilitation and compare them with normal voice children (under 12 years of age). a perceptive and electroacoustic evaluation of voice was carried out through a digital analysis after implantation and rehabilitation. the study was perfor...

We have so far proposed a speaking-aid system for laryngectomees using a statistical voice conversion technique. In the proposed system, artificial speech articulated with extremely small sound source signals is detected with a Non-Audible Murmur (NAM)microphone, and then, the detected artificial speech is converted into more natural voice in a probabilistic manner. Although this system basical...

My voice reveals the hidden power hidden within." A woman of Asian descent appears to be an entertainer, possibly a courtesan or geisha, wearing a pseudo-Chinese dress and hairdo; her hands are curled in front of her in an "Oriental-like" gesture as if she is dancing, and her head is tilted coyly with a cryptic smile (Figure 1). She gives a sexually suggestive expression and gaze but hesitates ...

In this paper we present two novel methods for visual voice activity detection (V-VAD) which exploit the bimodality of speech (i.e. the coherence between speaker’s lips and the resulting speech). The first method uses appearance parameters of a speaker’s lips, obtained from an active appearance model (AAM). An HMM then dynamically models the change in appearance over time. The second method use...

Much effort has been involved in packet-level error control and delay jitter concealment for Internet audio applications. A packet-based time-scale modification scheme for speech signals is developed to provide adaptive delay concealment at the receiver for an Internet voice session in this work. The adaptive playout algorithm strives to minimize packet droppings for late-arrival packets and pr...

despite important  role that has parties volition in the contract based on article 191, contract espousal will be achieve  bused on  advisable something that is under contract the important role that has silence  in the contract may not be responsible but in practice has very legal effects for contract parties. legal volition is formant from implication and adoption since silence  is not, silen...