This paper describes the implementation of a unit selection text-to-speech system that incorporates a statistical model Cost (sCost), in addition to target and join costs, for controlling the selection of unit candidates. sCost, a quality control measure, is calculated off-line for each unit by comparing HMM based synthesis and recorded speech with their corresponding unit segment labels. Dynam...

The third novel by Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed, is a work of family drama historical fiction that examines factors surrounding one lead to and reverberate from action: poor sells their youngest daughter wealthy couple in Kabul. Set Afghanistan, spans over fifty 50 years four generations. Hosseini includes several narrative voices, rather than just story’s main family. multiple nar...

This paper recounts the experience of a community inquiry in Philosophy with Children´s workshop directed at teacher training students. The is documented form pedagogical narrative, practice-training-research strategy that seeks to make school practice visible from teacher´s point view. Our narrative documents students’ voices. Between August and October 2018, each session was audio-recorded tr...

This paper reports findings from a study which analysed the narratives of individuals who described themselves as recovered or recovering from psychosis, a term referring to experiences such as hearing voices other people do not hear, seeing or sensing things other people do not see or sense, holding unusual beliefs (delusions) or beliefs about the malevolent intention of others which seem unwa...

In modern literature, polyphony is a sort of recital which involves a variety of voices and standpoints. This plurality of independent voices was introduced by the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin. This study sought to look into how the notion of polyphony based on the character(s)' voices in Faulkner‟s novel entitled The Sound and the Fury </span...

Case studies are used extensively in gerontological and geriatric education and practice, especially to present clinically relevant examples and to illustrate abstract concepts, principles, and theories in the study of aging. This article reviews the important pedagogical, clinical, and ethical issues involved in their design and use, and presents an argument that both case study developers and...

The aim of this study was to provide nursing students with an experiential learning opportunity which simulated living with the challenge of voice hearing. The purpose was to access understanding and insights of nursing students who completed "Hearing Voices that are Distressing: A Training Experience and Simulation for Students" (Deegan, 1996). Using a narrative research design and a convenien...

Qualitative researchers have long used ethnographic methods to make sense of complex human activities and experiences. Their blessing is that through them, researchers can collect a wealth of raw data. Their challenge is that they require the researcher to find patterns and organize the various themes and concepts that emerge during the analysis stage into a coherent narrative that a reader can...

For millennia, some people have heard voices that others cannot hear. These have been variously understood as medical, psychological and spiritual phenomena. In this article we consider the specific role of spirituality in voice-hearing in two ways. First, we examine how spirituality may help or hinder people who hear voices. Benefits are suggested to include offering an alternative meaning to ...