AAC Richard Soybean

AAC Paper.dvi

The UCLA Neptune Laboratory CO2 laser system has been recently upgraded to produce 3ps multi-terawatt 10μm laser pulses. The laser energy is distributed over several 3ps pulses separated by 18ps. These temporally structured pulses are applied for laser driven ion acceleration in an H2 gas jet at a measured plasma density of 2x1019cm−3. Protons in excess of 20MeV have been observed in the forwar...

Tele-AAC Resolution

Approximately 1.3% of all people, or about 4 million Americans, cannot rely on their natural speech to meet their daily communication needs. Telepractice offers a potentially cost-effective service delivery mechanism to provide clinical AAC services at a distance to the benefit of underserved populations in the United States and worldwide. Tele-AAC is a unique cross-disciplinary clinical servic...

Remembering Richard [Obituary, Richard A.Newton]

Mp3 and Aac Explained

The proliferation of MPEG coded audio material on the Internet has shown an exponential growth since 1995, making ”.mp3” the most searched for term in early 1999 (according to http://www.searchterms.com). ”MP3” has been featured in numerous articles in newspapers and periodicals and on TV, mostly on the business pages because of the potential impact on the recording industry. While everybody is...

Discourse-Based Modeling for AAC

This paper presents a method for an AAC system to predict a whole response given features of the previous utterance from the interlocutor. It uses a large corpus of scripted dialogs, computes a variety of lexical, syntactic and whole phrase features for the previous utterance, and predicts features that the response should have, using an entropy-based measure. We evaluate the system on a held-o...