A demonstration of an optical synthesizer---a laser light source whose wavelength can be programmed---showcases a tool that provide arbitrary access to applications such as signal processing and quantum sensing.

The Well–Sequenced Synthesizer is a series of sequencers that create music in dialog with the user. Through the sequencers’ physical interfaces, users can control music theory-based generative algorithms. This series –a work-in-progress– is composed by three sequencers at this time. The first one, called The Counterpointer, takes a melody input from the user and responds by generating voices ba...

De novo gene and genome synthesis enables the design of any sequence without the requirement of a pre-existing template as in traditional genetic engineering methods. The ability to mass produce synthetic genes holds great potential for biological research, but widespread availability of de novo DNA constructs is currently hampered by their high cost. In this work, we describe a microfluidic pl...

In this research, we have investigated about prosodic features of Farsi (Persian) language and quantified major stress rules and some intonation rules for speech synthesis purpose. The research is mostly concentrated on pitch variations and then on durational changes. We have implemented the proposed simplified prosodic rules using a Klatt formant synthesizer, specially modified for Farsi phone...

We present work carried out to simulate an interlanguage for English speakers learning Italian with a speech synthesizer made available by Apple. The lexicon is made of the most frequent 30,000 word forms of Italian as extracted from corpora and other similar Frequency Lists. The synthesizer has been filtered by a program in C-language that addresses the internal system of rules running on Appl...

The growing importance of wireless media for voice and data communications is driving a need for higher integration in personal communications transceivers in order to achieve lower cost, smaller form factor, and lower power dissipation [1]. One approach to this problem is to integrate the RF functionality in low-cost CMOS technology together with the baseband transceiver functions. This in tur...

This paper investigates the performance of objective speech and audio quality measures for the prediction of perceived sound quality of synthetic speech. A number of existing quality measures have been applied to synthetic speech generated by different speech synthesizers such like LP synthesizer, HSM synthesizer, STRAIGHT synthesizer and several HMM based text-to-speech synthesis systems. The ...