Groups of human subjects were exposed for 8 or 24 h to an octave-band noise centered at 63, 125, or 250 Hz. For a 24-h exposure at 84 dBA, temporary threshold shifts (TTS) increased for 8-12 h and then either decreased or remained constant. Although TTS was less than 20 dB, complete recovery for many of the subjects required as long as 48 h. Accordingly, the higher level exposure which was plan...

This paper introduces a Syllable HMM based Mandarin TTS system. 10-state left-to-right HMMs are used to model each syllable. We leverage the corpus and the front end of a concatenative TTS system to build the Syllable HMM based TTS system. Furthermore, we utilize the unique consonant/vowel structure of Mandarin syllable to improve the voiced/unvoiced decision of HMM states. Evaluation results s...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the prevalence of bronchial asthma in patients with Tako-Tsubo Syndrome (TTS). DESIGN This retrospective case-series study was conducted in a primary care hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. Data of all patients with newly diagnosed TTS (2002 - 2012) were assessed electronically by the use of ICD-10. Asthma prevalence was compared to published epidemiologic data. SETT...

Tensor time series (TTS) data, a generalization of one-dimensional on high-dimensional space, is ubiquitous in real-world applications. Compared to modeling or multivariate series, which has received much attention and achieved tremendous progress recent years, tensor been paid less effort. However, properly coping with the more challenging task, due its complex inner structure. In this paper, ...

Many applications of TTS incorporate both unpredictable words, which require the flexibility of TTS, and static phrases, for which the quality of recorded speech is unmatched by TTS. “Phrase-splicing” TTS attempts to provide the optimal combination of the two, by customizing concatenative TTS to such applications by incorporating application-specific recordings at the word or phrase level while...

In this paper, we present a Text to Speech (TTS) synthesis system for Bangla language using the opensource Festival TTS engine. Festival is a complete TTS synthesis system, with components supporting front-end processing of the input text, language modeling, and speech synthesis using its signal processing module. The Bangla TTS system proposed here, creates the voice data for festival, and add...

End-to-end text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) can generate highly natural synthetic speech from raw text. However, rendering the correct pitch accents is still a challenging problem for end-to-end TTS. To tackle challenge of accent in Japanese TTS, we adopt PnG~BERT, self-supervised pretrained model character and phoneme domain We investigate effects features captured by PnG~BERT on TTS modifying f...

There are many areas were text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis could enhance the end-user experience or even change the behavior of using existing network services starting from simple notification applications to complex presence enabled instant messaging convergent services. For this to happen we may need to bring TTS service in the multi-access area of Internet Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks ...