Not long ago Digital Audio Tapes (DATs) were a popular medium for professional digital recording. The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds almost 2,000 DATs in its accessions but until recently lacked equipment to retrieve the rich collections of music, interviews, and programs from across the Institution. Very few archives have conducted in-house transfers of DATs. The Smithsonian Institutio...

LVAD is a mechanical pump supporting a weak heart function and blood flow. Sometimes, the heart may not recover fast enough to take over the pumping action immediately after surgery, in such patients a temporary support device has been employed to maintain the pumping action until the patient’s own heart recovers. This device can be considered as a temporary alternative before the process of ar...

farsi and english are both indo-european languages with similarities in their roots. as such, this experiment was conducted to understand which english accent (i.e. american, british or australian accents) would be easier for iranians to adapt. to answer this question, 30 medical students performed three different activities of (i) listening to audio texts in three accents, (ii) taking part in ...

Pre-trained models are essential as feature extractors in modern machine learning systems various domains. In this study, we hypothesize that representations effective for general audio tasks should provide multiple aspects of robust features the input sound. For recognizing sounds regardless perturbations such varying pitch or timbre, be to these perturbations. serving diverse needs recognitio...

Sonnet is an audio-enhanced debugger under development in the Mathematical Sciences Department at IBM Research. The issues in which we are interested include the use of sophisticated yet easy to understand sounds to aid in understanding program execution, how to shift the programmer's focus from the narrow line-oriented view of a program to a global gestalt or holistic view, and finally how to ...

There are more people in the world than ever before, and a far greater part of them want an education. The demand cannot be met simply by building more schools and training more teachers. Education must become more efficient. To this end curricula must be revised and simplified, and textbooks and classroom techniques improved. In any other field a demand for increased production would have led ...