The work presented in this paper is devoted to the modeling of distribution of post-phrase pause duration for dependency analysis of read Japanese sentences. The pause information is incorporated into a dependency structure parser, which handles numerical information as part of linguistic knowledge. A series of our previous works has shown that the duration of pauses is constantly e ective to i...

Speech intelligibility in reverberant environments is reduced because of overlap-masking. Signal modification prior to presentation in such listening environments, e.g., with a public announcement system, can be employed to alleviate this problem. Time-scale modifications are particularly effective in reducing the effect of overlap-masking. A method for introducing linguistically-motivated paus...

There is a close relationship between prosody and syntax. In the field of speech synthesis, many investigations have been made to control prosody so that it conforms to the syntactic structure of the sentence. This paper is concerned with the inverse problem: recovery of syntactic structure with the help of prosodic information. In our past investigations, it was observed that duration of inter...

BACKGROUND Shorter manual chest compression pauses prior to defibrillation attempts is reported to improve the defibrillation success rate. Mechanical load-distributing band (LDB-) CPR enables shocks without compression pause. We studied pre-shock pause and termination of ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia 5s post-shock (TOF) and return of organized rhythm (ROOR) with LD...

This study determined the effect of the duration of the intertrain pause on the ventricular effective refractory period (VERP) measured by the extrastimulus technique using conventional eight-beat basic drive trains. In 50 subjects, the VERP was measured using a basic drive train cycle length of 500 msec, 2-msec steps in the extrastimulus coupling interval, and intertrain pauses of 0, 1, 4, 8, ...

COVV: I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though never saw it lit. (Pause.) It’s easy going. When fall I’ll weep for happiness. (Pause. He goes towards door.)HAMM: Clov! (C...

Awareness of its rich structural pathways has earned the external segment of the globus pallidus (GPe) recognition as a central figure within the basal ganglia circuitry. Interestingly, GPe neurons are uniquely identified by the presence of prominent pauses interspersed among a high-frequency discharge rate of 50-80 spikes/s. These pauses have an average pause duration of 620 ms with a frequenc...

We previously analyzed the role of pausing induced by hairpin structures within RNA templates in facilitating strand transfer by HIV-1 RT (reverse transcriptase). We proposed a multistep transfer mechanism in which pause-induced RNase H cuts within the initial RNA template (donor) expose regions of cDNA. A second homologous RNA template (acceptor) can interact with the cDNA at such sites, initi...

Why such relentless phreneticism? Why, when the media consider a piece of science to be of public interest, do they invariably splash it as news for immediate consumption? Why so little insight, so few reflective or truly helpful feature articles after a pause for thought? One answer is that, along with novelty, we all need topicality (real or apparent) to attract our attention to a news story....

Generating natural sounding synthetic speech from text requires a division of a text into IPs and assigning pauses between those phrases. A difficulty which faces attempts to model pauses quantitatively is high degree of variability exhibited by speakers in pause placement and duration. The present study seeks to investigate if Synchronous Speech (speech elicited when two speakers are asked to ...