This paper deals with a speech synthesis. Speech synthesis is an artificial production of speech by a computer. Speech synthesis from a text is called Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis. The main goal of this paper is to propose and implement a TTS system based on the MBROLA (Multiband Resynthesis Overlap-Add) project. We implement jSynt tool, a TTS system written in java. The first version include...

The present paper deals with the double verb patterns go-and-V and go-V. While generative approaches have argued that the latter are truncated surface forms derived from the former, the present paper adds to the empirical evidence obtained so far, arguing in favor of the view that the two patterns be adequately conceived of as separate constructions (the notion of construction being defined in ...

Formal models for gene assembly in ciliates have been developed, in particular the string pointer reduction system (SPRS) and the graph pointer reduction system (GPRS). The reduction graph is a valuable tool within the SPRS, revealing much information about how gene assembly is performed for a given gene. The GPRS is more abstract than the SPRS and not all information present in the SPRS is ret...

The duration of a speech passage can be altered using audio time-scale modification techniques. Time-scale modification can be achieved in the time domain by segmenting the input signal into overlapping frames and recombining the frames with an overlap differing from the analysis overlap. We present a time-scale modification algorithm that uses a simple peak alignment technique to synchronize o...

We present an analysis of the star formation rate in galaxies between 0.7 < z < 1.8 using Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrograph (NICMOS) grism spectral observations. We detect 163 galaxies in an area of ∼ 4.4 square arcminutes, 37 of which show possible Hα emission. We extend the observed Hα luminosity function (LF) in this redshift range to luminosities a factor of two fainter tha...

Let A and B be two sets of n resp. m (m n) disjoint unit disks in the plane. We consider the problem of nding a rigid motion of A that maximizes the total area of its overlap with B. The function describing the area of overlap is quite complex, even for combinatorially equivalent translations, and hence, we turn our attention to approximation algorithms. First, we give a deterministic (1 )-appr...

Empirical evidence has been accumulating suggesting that victims and offenders share common risk factors and are often one and the same. Guided by this extant literature, this study provides a longitudinal examination of the relationship between physical aggression and violent victimization among a large sample of 2,671 urban minority youth and young adults from Chicago. The results from a seri...

The Time-Dependent Traveling Salesman Problem (TDTSP) is the extended version of the TSP where arc costs depend on the time when the arc is traveled. When we consider urban deliveries, travel times vary considerably during the day and optimizing a delivery tour comes down to solving an instance of the TDTSP. In this paper we propose a set of benchmarks for the TDTSP based on real traffic data a...

Using the results of an optical analysis, a digital computer technique was developed to analyze the relative excitation produced by arbitrary figures at the rhabdom of the receptors of a compound eye. This technique was applied to several sets of figures for the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and a reasonable agreement was found with behavioral data. Similarly, the significance of a fixed cutoff ang...

The application of frequency domain equalization techniques makes single carrier modulation a potentially valuable alternative to OFDM, especially in regard to its robustness to RF implementation impairments. In this overview paper we survey recent results on single carrier systems with frequency domain equalization (SC-FDE), including comparisons and compatibilities with OFDM, and extensions v...