In this paper the relation between the quality of a talking head as an output component of a spoken dialog system and the quality of the system itself is investigated. Results show that the quality of the talking head has indeed an important impact on system quality. The quality of the talking head itself is found to be influenced by visual and speech quality and the synchronization of voice an...

The present study aims to investigate the effect of ideal self-congruence, brand attachment and some personality factors on the negative behaviors of consumers such as compulsive buying, anti-brand actions, and trash talking. The research population was comprised of customers of four IT service brands including Samsung, HP, Sony, and Apple in Iran. Structural equation modeling approach and PLS ...

Association Between Living in Food Deserts and Cardiovascular Risk Heval M. Kelli, MD; Muhammad Hammadah, MD; Hina Ahmed, MPH; Yi-An Ko, PhD; Matthew Topel, MD, MSc; Ayman Samman-Tahhan, MD; Mossab Awad, MD; Keyur Patel, MD; Kareem Mohammed, MD; Laurence S. Sperling, MD; Priscilla Pemu, MD; Viola Vaccarino, MD, PhD; Tene Lewis, PhD; Herman Taylor, MD, MPH; Greg Martin, MD, MSc; Gary H. Gibbons,...

This presentation is a contribution to the discussion about the future of semantic technologies, and more specifically the discussion about the proposed Topic Maps Reference Model. In this paper I will attempt to show that the terms which are used to describe the work being done in the semantic technologies are somewhat misleading, and I will propose using the term "perspective" instead of the ...

It is known that the performance of speaker identification systems is high under the neutral talking condition; however, the performance deteriorates under the shouted talking condition. In this paper, second-order circular hidden Markov models (CHMM2s) have been proposed and implemented to enhance the performance of isolated-word text-dependent speaker identification systems under the shouted ...

The authors examined the influence of talking and the social context of talking on cognitive-emotional processes of adjustment to stressors. Two hundred fifty-six undergraduates viewed a stressful stimulus and were then assigned to a no-talk control condition or 1 of 3 talk conditions: talk alone, talk to a validating confederate, or talk to an invalidating confederate. Two days later, they wer...