With the demand on providing automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for many markets the question of porting an ASR system to a new language is of practical interest. To cope with this task the adaptation of hidden Markov models (HMM) is seen as a key step to transfer the models from a source to a target language. In this work we introduce a novel adaptation scheme for semi-continuous HMMs ...

In this paper we examine a problem of digitized curves approximation for raster graphics vectorization and develop an efficient implementation of a near-optimal Dynamic Programming algorithm for digitized curves approximation with cubic Bézier splines for a given distortion bound. For better fitting performance, we introduce the inflection points with relaxed constraint of tangent continuity. T...

MIPAS (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding) is operating on the ENVIronmental SATellite (ENVISAT) since March 2002. After two years of nearly continuous limb scanning measurements, at the end of March 2004, the instrument was stopped due to problems with the mirror drive of the interferometer. Operations with reduced maximum path difference, corresponding to both a reduced...

As weak forms of continuity in topological spaces, weak continuity [I], quasi continuity [2], semi continuity [3] and almost continuity in the sense of Husain [4] are well-known. Recently, the following four weak forms of continuity have been introduced: weak quasi continuity [5], faint continuity [6], subweak continuity [7] and almost weak continuity [8]. These four weak forms of continuity ar...

In this paper, a novel tone-based pitch connection control in unit selection is described to improve naturalness of output speech for Mandarin text-to-speech (TTS) baseline system. This study mainly focuses on pitch connections of concatenative syllables. To improve the concatenation quality, we apply offset pitch of preceding syllable and onset pitch of following syllable in unit selection. Ac...

The dynamical behavior of a map on the unit interval has been the subject of much contemporary research. In this paper, we will consider the relation between the continuity of the map cof and cof for some positive integer k, where f is a continuous map from the unit interval to itself, and ?f is a function which takes any element of the unit interval to the set of all subsequential limits o...

We introduce a new class of fuzzy open sets called fuzzy $bigwedge_e$ sets which includes the class of fuzzy $e$-open sets. We also define a weaker form of fuzzy $bigwedge_e$ sets termed as fuzzy locally $bigwedge_e$ sets. By means of these new sets, we present the notions of fuzzy $bigwedge_e$ continuity and fuzzy locally $bigwedge_e$ continuity which are weaker than fuzzy $e$-continuity and f...

Introduction: This study presents a computerized analyzing method for detection of instantaneous changes of far and near walls of the common carotid artery in sequential ultrasound images by applying the maximum gradient algorithm. Maximum gradient was modified and some characteristics were added from the dynamic programming algorithm for our applications. Methods: The algorithm was evaluat...

In this paper we prove that every n-Jordan homomorphis varphi:mathcal {A} longrightarrowmathcal {B} from unital Banach algebras mathcal {A} into varphi -commutative Banach algebra mathcal {B} satisfiying the condition varphi (x^2)=0 Longrightarrow varphi (x)=0, xin mathcal {A}, is an n-homomorphism. In this paper we prove that every n-Jordan homomorphism varphi:mathcal {A} longrightarrowmathcal...

using analytical method of usul al-fiqh, the present essay deals with opinions of shiite usulis on this question whether continuity of the previous state can be used with regard to time, temporal affairs, and affairs conditioned upon time. as for the first, we investigate opinions of usulis in this connection first, answer the problem of lack of doubt as to subsistence and that of lack of unity...