We describe the implementation of a cellular-phone based speech translation system without telephone quality speech database or special CT hardware. The purpose is to quickly build a prototype service system that can be used for data collection with real users. To train the acoustic model for the speech recognition system, available high-quality databases were made usable by 1.) appropriate dow...

in a widely cited medical journal, in which we reported an association between cellular telephone calls and motor vehicle collisions. During that week we participated in more than 50 media interviews because we think scientists have an obligation to communicate with society. During subsequent years we have stayed in the academic field analyzing the limitations, implications and misquotations of...

OBJECTIVE The authors gathered survey data regarding the use of cellular telephones among families who reside in the New York metropolitan area and whose children receive medical care in a hospital-affiliated general pediatrics clinic. METHODS Two investigators distributed a 34-question, self-administered survey in pencil-and-paper format to pediatric patients and the adults who accompanied t...

The evolution of the Internet offers the opportunity to redesign how basic communication services are provided. All services, including (multimedia) telephony, radio and television, can be based on a common, packet-switched, connectionless infrastructure of the Internet. Intelligence is placed into end systems for scalability and controllability. This paper discusses the protocols and technolog...

AIMS To investigate the susceptibility of implantable cardioverter defibrillators to electromagnetic interference generated by digital cellular telephones, functioning in both international transmission technologies: the Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) and the Digital Cellular System (DCS 1800). METHODS AND RESULTS In 36 patients with transvenous implantable cardioverter defibril...