Although all conventional voice conversion approaches require equivalent training utterances of source and target speaker, several recently proposed applications call for breaking this demand. In this paper, we present an algorithm which finds corresponding time frames within unaligned training data. The performance of this algorithm is tested by means of a voice conversion framework based on l...

A methane Raman cell optimized for generating high energy laser pulses at 1.54 microns wavelength is characterized. 1st Stokes conversion efficiencies up to 43% – equivalent to 62% photon conversion efficiency – were measured. Experimental results show output average power in excess of 17.5 W, pulse energies of 350 mJ at 50Hz, with good beam quality (M < 6.) Narrow bandwidth output is produced ...

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personalincome inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, the authors show the sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap approach is implemented to...

Pointer Tree Automata (PTA's) are a new formalism invented for the ease of data conversion. Each PTA takes an input tree and produces an output tree. The desired format of the data is obtained by a sequence of applications of PTA's. The multiple passes through the data limits the performance of this conversion. In this paper, we describe an algorithm for eliminating this cost by transforming th...

We present an embedding of linear time temporal logic LTL in HOL together with an elegant translation of LTL formulas into equivalent ω-automata. The translation is completely implemented by HOL rules and is therefore safe. Its implementation is mainly based on preproven theorems such that the conversion works very efficiently. In particular, it runs in linear time in terms of the given formula...

This paper describes the conversion of a Hidden Markov Model into a finite state transducer that closely approximates the behavior of the stochastic model. In some cases the transducer is equivalent to the HMM. This conversion is especially advantageous for partof-speech tagging because the resulting transducer can be composed with other transducers that encode correction rules for the most fre...

25-Dihydrosaframycin A(AR1) and 21-decyano-25-dihydrosaframycin A(AR3) were produced by the microbial conversion of saframycin A(SA). Efficient conversion of SA to AR, and AR3 was observed with Rhodococcus amidophifus IFM 144. Though the antimicrobial activity of AR, was one tenth that of SA, the in vitro antitumor activity of AR1 was found to be equivalent to that of SA. In contrast, AR, was b...

This paper proposes a fast Mixed Radix Conversion based reverse converter for the recently proposed moduli set ?{2?^(2n+1)-1,2^n,2^2n-1}. It shows that the computation of multiplicative inverses could be eliminated from the conversion process and presents a low complexity and modulo operation free implementation. Theoretical analysis shows that the proposed scheme outperforms all state of the a...