T akotsubo syndrome (TTS) is an acute heart failure syndrome that predominantly affects post-menopausal women. It is characterized by substantial morbidity and mortality, which equal those of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and are still underappreciated (1). TTS and ACS share many clinical features on admission, and an estimated 1% to 2% of all patients with suspected ACS are finally diagnosed ...

This single case study served to examine text-to-speech (TTS) effects on reading rate and comprehension in an individual with mild aphasia and cognitive impairment. Findings showed faster reading, given TTS presented at a normal speaking rate, but no significant comprehension changes. TTS may support reading in people with aphasia when time limitations exist.

A web-based listening test measured intelligibility across speech rate of 8 TTS systems and of a linearly timecompressed human speech reference voice. The synthesis systems included 2 independent representatives of each of the following 4 synthesis methods: formant, diphone concatenation, unit selection concatenation, and HMM. For each TTS system, a female and a male American English voice were...

Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems rely on a grapheme-to-phoneme converter which is built to produce canonical, or statically stylized, pronunciations. Hence, the TTS quality drops when phoneme sequences generated by this converter are inconsistent with those labeled in the speech corpus on which the TTS system is built, or when a given expressivity is desired. To solve this problem, the present work...

Recently, the phenomenon of thermal taste, where thermal tasters (TTs) perceive taste sensations from the application of thermal stimuli to the tongue, was described. Thermal taster status (TTS) appears to function as a marker of individual variation in orosensory perception, as TTs are more responsive to prototypical orosensory stimuli and flavor attributes in complex beverages than thermal no...

I read with great interest the report by Zalewska-Adamiec et al. [1] about the 95 patients (89% female) from the northern-eastern part of Poland who were hospitalised with takotsubo syndrome (TTS) in the years 2008–2012. The authors have contrasted the TTS cohort with 101 female patients with an anterior ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction (STEMI), and found that TTS is not a benig...

BACKGROUND Outer hair cells' (OHCs') dysfunctions as the extent of temporary and permanent threshold shifts (TTS and PTS) and cochlear damage were assessed in rabbits exposed to continuous noise METHODS Twelve New Zealand white rabbits were studied in noise (N) (n=6; exposed to continuous noise; 95 dB SPL, 500-8000 Hz for 8 h per day during 5 consecutive days) and control (C) (n=6; not expose...

This article presents MLSLib, a software library for human gure animation with lip syncing. The library enables us to easily use multiple TTS systems and multiple lip motion generators, and switch them arbitrarily. It also helps use of multiple speaking agents, possibly with di erent TTS systems and lip motion generators. The MLSLib is composed of three modules: LSSAgent, TTSManager, and FCPMan...

Pollen tubes elongate directionally in the extracellular matrix of pistil tissues to transport the male gametes from the apically located stigma to the basally located ovary for fertilization. The molecular mechanisms underlying directional pollen tube growth in the pistil are poorly understood. We have purified a glycoprotein, TTS, from tobacco stylar transmitting tissue, which supports pollen...

The integration of text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis and animation of synthetic faces allows new applications like visual human computer interfaces using agents or avatars. The TTS informs the talking head when phonemes are spoken. The appropriate mouth shapes are animated and rendered while the TTS produces the sound. We call this integrated system of TTS and animation a Visual TTS (VTTS). This p...