The aim of the work to be reported here is the development of schemata which are able to predict the quality of spontaneity and help to create and collect databases for certain tasks on spontaneous speech. The term “spontaneous speech“ is used in a wide range and allows the existence of many spontaneous speech corpora with different levels of spontaneity. Our aim was to find appropriate categor...

Recently, a number of coding techniques have been reported to achieve near toll quality synthesized speech at bit-rates around 4 kb/s. These include variants of Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP), Sinusoidal Transform Coding (STC) and Multi-Band Excitation (MBE). While CELP has been an effective technique for bit-rates above 6 kb/s, STC, MBE, Waveform Interpolation (WI) and Mixed Excitation ...

speech, the sounds involved in an utterance are not produced independently of one another, but rather reflect the result of a complex process of sound concatenation. It is important to study these coarticulation effects in representations of speech signals since, for example, their cues can be helpful in the development of robust speech recognition systems. Representational tools, such as the s...

Maintaining communication may sometimes be ignored by the speaker. One have a style of offensive and controversial statements while others speak based on rules without violating theory Grice’s conversational maxims. An example former is Trump’s speech about Orlando Mass Shooting March 16, 2016. Very often Donald J. speeches seem to controversial. However, some audiences find them effectively ac...

Six months administration of bromocriptine mesylate significantly decreased glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), fasting blood sugar, postprandial blood sugar, and weight of 22 Indian obese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus with no serious adverse events. Therefore, the novel mechanism of action, efficacy and acceptable safety profile makes this drug an attractive option for treatment of obese typ...