Text-to-speech (TTS) systems for many widely spoken languages have been developed and evolved over the last few decades. Such systems are being used in many different fields. Since these TTS systems have differences in the perceived sound quality, many speech quality test methods have been proposed to compare and evaluate their performance. Test materials for these tests, however, are language ...

Abbas Keramati* [email protected] * Corresponding author Industrial Engineering Department, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 11155-4563, Tehran, Iran Masoud Afshari-Mofrad [email protected] Information Technology Management Department, Tarbiat Modares University, P.O. Box 14115-111, Tehran, Iran Ali Kamrani [email protected] Industrial Engineering Department, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 1...

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems provide fundamental reading support for people with aphasia and difficulties. However, artificial voices are more difficult to process than natural voices. The current study is an extended analysis of the results a clinical experiment investigating which, among three digitised human voice, suitable impairments. Such show that voice synthesised Ogmios TTS, concatenat...

BACKGROUND Recent hypotheses have suggested the pathophysiological role of catecholamines in the evolution of the Takotsubo syndrome (TTS). The extent of cardiac and circulatory compromise dictates the use of some form of supportive therapy. This study was designed to investigate the clinical outcomes associated with catecholamine use in TTS patients. METHODS Our institutional database consti...

I immensely enjoyed the contribution by Finsterer and Bersano [1], published in the September 2015 issue of the Journal, about seizures, Takotsubo syndrome (TTS), and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). The authors carried out a review of the heretofore reported cases of TTS triggered by seizures, with particular intension of evaluating fatal outcome. Among the reported 74 patients (86...

Loud sound exposure exacerbates aminoglycoside ototoxicity, increasing the risk of permanent hearing loss and degrading the quality of life in affected individuals. We previously reported that loud sound exposure induces temporary threshold shifts (TTS) and enhances uptake of aminoglycosides, like gentamicin, by cochlear outer hair cells (OHCs). Here, we explore mechanisms by which loud sound e...

Dot blot hybridization and PCR amplification of 14 Ara(+) and 8 Ara(-) Burkholderia pseudomallei strains showed that type III secretion (TTS) genes were present in all the Ara(-) strains but absent from all but one of the Ara(+) strains. The link between TTS genes and an Ara(-) phenotype suggests a role for TTS in virulence.

abstract background: evaluation of breast masses in women under 40 years old starts with a triple test score (tts) which is composed of clinical breast examination, mammography and fine needle aspiration. increased breast density in this age group decreases the sensitivity of mammography. so deciding whether to biopsy such nondiagnostic lesions or not is subject to challenge. breast masses up t...