Free speech

Free Speech in China

Speex: A Free Codec For Free Speech

The Speex project has been started in 2002 to address the need for a free, open-source speech codec. Speex is based on the Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) algorithm and, unlike the previously existing Vorbis codec, is optimised for transmitting speech for low latency communication over an unreliable packet network. This paper presents an overview of Speex, the technology involved in it an...

Free speech, democracy, and eugenics.

O n 30 September and 1 October this year a conference on ‘‘Ethics, Science and Moral Philosophy of Assisted Human Reproduction’’ was held at the Royal Society in London. The conference was organised by the German philosopher Edgar Dahl and the eminent embryologist Robert Edwards, and the speakers included scientists, IVF practitioners, and philosophers from the UK, the USA, Europe, and Australi...

Medical journals and free speech.

A research team headed by Sargent probed children’s responses to televised fast-food ads. The study tested Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) advertising self-regulation guidelines, in which the Better Business Bureau “evaluates child-directed advertising and promotional material in all media to advance truthfulness, accuracy and consistency with its Self-Regulatory Program for Children’...

The CMU TransTac 2007 Eyes-free and Hands-free Two-way Speech-to-Speech Translation System

The paper describes our portable two-way speech-tospeech translation system using a completely eyesfree/hands-free user interface. This system translates between the language pair English and Iraqi Arabic as well as between English and Farsi, and was built within the framework of the DARPA TransTac program. The Farsi language support was developed within a 90-day period, testing our ability to ...