In this paper we have studied two information fusion approaches, namely feature vector concatenation and decision fusion, for the task of reducing error rates in a speaker verification system used in mismatched conditions. Three types of features are fused: Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC), MFCC with Cepstral Mean Subtraction (CMS) and Maximum Auto-Correlation Values (MACV). We have u...

Species tree estimation is complicated by processes, such as gene duplication and loss and incomplete lineage sorting (ILS), that cause discordance between gene trees and the species tree. Furthermore, while concatenation, a traditional approach to tree estimation, has excellent performance under many conditions, the expectation is that the best accuracy will be obtained through the use of spec...

It has recently been proposed that a well-resolved Tree of Life can be achieved through concatenation of shared genes. There are, however, several difficulties with such an approach, especially in the prokaryotic part of this tree. We tackled some of them using a new combination of maximum likelihood-based methods, developed in order to practice as safe and careful concatenations as possible. F...

Problem statement: The main problem with current Malay Text-To-Speech (MTTS) synthesis system is the poor quality of the generated speech sound due to the inability of traditional TTS system to provide multiple choices of unit for generating more accurate synthesized speech. Approach: This study proposes a phonetic context variable length unit selection MTTS system that is capable of providing ...

The concatenation product is one of the most important operations on regular languages. Its study requires sophisticated tools from algebra, finite model theory and profinite topology. This paper surveys research advances on this topic over the last fifty years. The concatenation product plays a key role in two of the most important results of automata theory: Kleene’s theorem on regular langua...

The paper focuses on three problems of generalizing properties of concatenation structures (ordered structures with a monotonic operation) to ordered structures lacking any operation. (1) What is the natural generalization of the idea of Archimedeaness, of commensurability between large and small? (2) What is the natural generalization of the concept of a unit concatenation structure in which t...

The systematics and speciation literature is rich with discussion relating to the potential for gene tree/species tree discordance. Numerous mechanisms have been proposed to generate discordance, including differential selection, long-branch attraction, gene duplication, genetic introgression, and/or incomplete lineage sorting. For speciose clades in which divergence has occurred recently and r...