State-of-the-art unit-selection text-to-speech systems currently produce very natural synthetic speech, at the price however of a costly and time-consuming voice creation process. We report here an extensive perceptual evaluation of several voice creation strategies, and conclude with a novel 1day process giving access to high quality TTS voices.

s of Talks Keynote Speeches Spatiotemporal dynamics in ecological systems Speaker: Alan Hastings Affiliation: Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis Abstract I will discuss some of the complexities involved in spatiotemporal dynamics in ecological systems, focusing on two aspects: the role of stochasticity in spatial spread and the dynamics of regime shi...

To the Editor of " The Indian Medical Gazette. " Dear Sir, ?I am induced to write these few lines, simply because I have never come across this disease before either in children or in adults during my residence here for the last seven years. And now within the last three months only no less than eighteen children have been brought iThder my direct treatment for this disease which lam sure is an...

A one-trial-a-day discrete-trial avoidance conditioning procedure run for 30 consecutive days was compared with a massed-trial procedure where Ss received 30 consecutive trials within 1 day. The Ss in both groups were equated for time each S spent in the nonshock compartment of the apparatus, number of times the transport box carrying Ss was lifted out of the nonshock compartment, and the numbe...

This paper concerns the search for optimal or nearly optimal batting orders in one-day cricket. A search is conducted over the space of permutations of batting orders where simulated annealing is used to explore the space. A non-standard aspect of the optimization is that the objective function (which is the mean number of runs per innings) is unavailable and is approximated via simulation. The...

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a Lagrangian method based on a meshless discretization of partial differential equations. I will present SPH discretization of the stochastic and deterministic Navier-Stokes and Advection-Diffusion-Reaction equations, implementation of various boundary conditions, and time integration of the SPH equations, and discuss applications of the SPH method for m...

The discussion reviews BMS’s analysis of how summary financial data from the IPO prospectus are associated with the IPO offer price and the initial market price. The authors focus on whether the value drivers associated with these prices differ between internet and non-internet firms, and between the offer price and the day one ending price. They conclude that there are differences in the value...

A Introduction or inclusio (v. 1a): “Bless the Lord, O my soul” B Day One (vv. 1b– 2a): praise and theophany; “Y , my God” C Day Two (vv. 2b– 4): emphasis upon the wind, spirit, or breath (Heb. rûaḥ, two times) D Day Three (vv. 5– 18): emphasis upon the deep, sea waters, and the springs E Day Four (vv. 19– 24): moon, sun, and climactic exultation90 D’ Day Five (vv. 25, 26): emphasis upon the se...