In this paper, the problem of the adaptation of a speech recognition system to a new environment is addressed. Recently, a Structural Maximum a Posteriori adaptation (SMAP) for a frame-based HMM model adaptation has been developed. In this method, acoustic model pdfs are organised in a tree and the means and variances of the pdfs are adapted using the linear transformations estimated under MAP ...

The cloud computing is considered as a computational model which provides the uses requests with resources upon any demand and needs.The need for planning the scheduling of the user's jobs has emerged as an important challenge in the field of cloud computing. It is mainly due to several reasons, including ever-increasing advancements of information technology and an increase of applications and...

many factors affect privatization of sports clubs. the aim of this research was to identify social and legal factors affecting privatization of sports clubs and to prioritize them with ahp method. for this purpose, the effective factors were collected with library and field study; a decision hierarchy tree was drawn and a questionnaire was designed. consistency rate under 0.1 was a sign of adap...

Spike-frequency adaptation is a prominent feature of neural dynamics. Among other mechanisms, various ionic currents modulating spike generation cause this type of neural adaptation. Prominent examples are voltage-gated potassium currents (M-type currents), the interplay of calcium currents and intracellular calcium dynamics with calcium-gated potassium channels (AHP-type currents), and the slo...

While many researchers devoted numerous articles to the organizational culture, relatively few articles have been contributed to culture and performance research. The purpose of this study is to shed light on the role of organizational culture on performance. To achieve this goal and in order to measure organizational culture, Denison organizational culture model was used. The components of thi...

Tip 1 Diyabet, bireyleri hem fizyolojik de psikososyal boyutta etkileyen kronik bir hastalıktır. Son yıllarda Diyabet ile ilgili dikkat çeken sorunlardan tanesi damgalamadır. Damgalamanın nedenleri ve sonuçlarının, damgalamaya adaptasyonu uyaran oldukları düşünülmektedir. Bu uyaranlar karşısında bireyler baş etme mekanizmalarını kullanmaktadır. Diyabette damgalama bireylerin metabolik kontrolün...

This paper is focused on the use of acoustic information from an existing source language (Cantonese) to implement speaker adaptation for a new target language (English). Speakerindependent (SI) model mapping between Cantonese and English is investigated at different levels of acoustic units. Phones, states, and Gaussian mixture components are used as the mapping units respectively. With the mo...

conclusions it is likely that learning social skills in adolescents with deafness would improve their sense of competence, and emotional well being. results the intervention led to significant improvement in total perceived competence scores of adolescents with deafness (p < 0.001) as well as in three domains of socio-emotional competence (p = 0.003), communication competence (p < 0.001), and s...