Acoustic fast match is usually used to accelerate search in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. This paper discusses a new acoustic fast match algorithm. This proposed fast match is based on incremental evaluation of the score and the use of normalized likelihood scores. This is in contrast to more traditional fast matches where a likelihood score is used. In addition, streaming SIM...

This paper suggests a neural network architecture for the streaming of an acoustic input using fundamental grouping cues of the mammalian auditory system. The auditory periphery is simulated using biologically relevant models, and the primary auditory cortex is represented by a neural network layer, in which three di erent features of the input are mapped and streamed. Finally, an attentional s...

A new experimental approach has shown that human erythrocytes of different blood groups were induced to form more agglutinates at a sound pressure of 70-240 kPa in vitro than the control erythrocytes. Similar effects were observed for alcian blue and dextran stimulated aggregation and for spontaneous aggregation. The increase of agglutination or aggregation was reversible. Heating and acoustic ...

Poloidal flow is curiously formed in a microliter sessile water drop over 157-225 MHz because of acoustic streaming from three-dimensional standing Lamb waves in a lithium niobate substrate. The flow possesses radial symmetry with downwelling at the center and upwelling around the periphery of the drop. Outside this frequency range, the attenuation occurs over a length scale incompatible with t...

Surface acoustic waves are used to actuate and process smallest amounts of fluids on the planar surface of a piezoelectric chip. Chemical modification of the chip surface is employed to create virtual wells and tubes to confine the liquids. Lithographically modulated wetting properties of the surface define a fluidic network, in analogy to the wiring of an electronic circuit. Acoustic radiation...