This paper describes listening tests investigating the perceptual role of voice source parameters (other than F0) in signaling focal prominence. Synthesized stimuli were constructed on the basis of an inverse filtered utterance ‘We were away a year ago’. Voice source parameters were manipulated in the two potentially accentable syllables WAY and YEAR (in terms of the absolute magnitude and alig...

The dependence of the dynamics of open quantum systems upon initial correlations between the system and environment is an utterly important yet poorly understood subject. For technical convenience most prior studies assume factorizable initial states where the system and its environments are uncorrelated, but these conditions are not very realistic and give rise to peculiar behaviors. One disti...

Piracy in the presence of internet and computers proves to be a biggest jolt to the concerned industry. To reduce the piracy and duplicity of the images, digital watermarking technique is having an edge over the other available techniques. In this paper, a blind digital watermarking algorithm is presented which is robust enough to resist the watermark against the attacks. The algorithm exploits...

Challenges facing universities are leading many to implement institutional strategies to incorporate e-learning rather than leaving its adoption up to enthusiastic individuals. Although there is growing understanding about the impact of e-learning on the student experience, there is less understanding of academics‟ perceptions of elearning and its impact on their identities. This paper explores...

This article is an attempt to analyse the military and political situation during considered period as a prerequisite for proper understanding of socio-political processes that took place in Chechnya-Ingushetia Dagestan. It notes complete interconnectedness work commissariats repressive bodies, fitting logically into context Stalinist nationality policy. On basis incriminating accusations again...

The parsing of an intermediate phrase into its component accentual phrases in Japanese has had many proposed mechanisms. The most common theories have involved syntactic configurations, and, recently, optimality theory has been gaining in popularity. This study examined the speech of five female speakers of Standard Tokyo dialect of Japanese. These speakers demonstrated that accentual phrase co...

murmurs were found in most, the only constant abnormality was abnormally wide splitting of the first sound with accentuation of the delayed component. This abnormal sound was thought to be caused by delayed closure of the abnormally large anterior leaflet of the tricuspid valve, especially as its delay was almost exactly related to the degree of right bundle-branch block. Ultrasonic recordingsf...

This paper describes how a language generation system that was originally designed for monologue generation, has been adapted for use in the OVIS spoken dialogue system. To meet the requirement that in a dialogue, the system’s utterances should make up a single, coherent dialogue turn, several modifications had to be made to the system. The paper also discusses the influence of dialogue context...

We introduce a concept-to-speech (CTS) system that generates prosodic structure compositionally, in a spoken dialogue agent architecture . Representations from the semantic interpretation, task modeling, and dialogue strategy selection components drive the computation of accentuation, pitch accent type selection, and choice of melodic contour, respectively. These principled couplings of dialogu...

This study discusses results of three experiments investigating whether rightdislocations are accented in Catalan, and whether they compulsorily form independent units. The latter hypothesis – at least in its stronger version – finds no support in either of the experiments. As for accentuation, results in Experiment 1 and 2 confirm that right-dislocations are mostly deaccented, though Experimen...