This paper deals with the improvements and modifications done on the first edition of the Malay Language Text-toSpeech System, SUM (acronym for Sintesis Ucapan Melayu). A simple review on human speech production system and synthetic speech production system is discussed. Modifications on the voicing source include an additional KLGLOTT88 model added into the software. Theory and methodology on ...

The serotoninergic system has been implicated in the etiology of schizophrenia and other behavioral disorders. Association studies have focused on the tryptophan hydroxylase 2 gene (TPH2) and the 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 2A gene (5-HTR2A). We genotyped two single-nucleotide polymorphisms, A1438G of 5-HTR2A and intronic rs1386494 of TPH2 in the Malay population, using a sample size of 289 sc...

In this paper, our recent progress in developing and evaluating Malay Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognizer (LVCSR) with considerations of linguistic information is discussed. The best baseline system has a WER of 15.8%. In order to propose methods to improve the accuracies further, additional experiments have been performed using linguistic information such as part-ofspeech and stem. W...

Soft set theory proposed by Molodtsov is a new mathematical tool for dealing with the uncertain data. Soft set-based dimensionality reduction can be considered as a technique for feature selection. In this paper, we present an alternative technique for feature selection of traditional Malay musical instrument sounds dataset. The technique is based on matrices computation of multi-soft sets for ...

The nasal profile and skin thickness in the Caucasian Indian vary from the Oriental Chinese or Malay noses. Reduction rhinoplasty is more common in the Caucasian Indian noses whereas augmentation rhinoplasty is more common in the Oriental Chinese or Malay noses. Graft selection remains the greatest challenge for surgeons performing rhinoplasty. However, the preferred choice as far as possible f...

Malaysia has a multi-ethnic population of approximately 60% Malay, 30% Chinese, and 10% Indian and other ethnic minorities (Department of Statistics Malaysia, 2010). Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer among women in all the ethnic groups in Malaysia. According to the National Cancer Registry (NCR), 3,242 females were newly diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 (Zainal and Nor, 2011). Of t...

A qualitative study was carried out to explore the inner experiences and personal growth of one male and three female Malay university student clients undergoing twelve sessions of person-centered counseling. Data analysis was based on the verbatim accounts of the counseling sessions, Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) interviews, clients’ journal entries and their non-verbal expressions throug...

There are a variety of properties which are believed to be associated with long distance reflexives. These include the requirement that the reflexive form be monomorphemic, subject orientation, and blocking by subjects intervening between the reflexive and its antecedent (in appropriate languages). Malay long distance reflexives have been claimed to contradict the expected typological correlati...