Hamburg to Vienna: German and Austrian Baroque

Vienna focus for Austrian ambitions

The Austrian Academy of Sciences has taken the bold step of closing a successful institute in Salzburg and opening two new ones in Vienna with the aim of creating an internationally attractive critical mass of biological research activity in the capital. Graham Tebb reports.

German-Austrian recommendations for the antiretroviral therapy

With the collaboration of Arastéh K. (Berlin), Arendt G. (Düsseldorf), Bader A. (Bochum), Behrens G. (Hannover), Beichert M. (Mannheim), Berg T. (Potsdam), Bergmann F. (Berlin), Bieniek B. (Berlin), Blauhut B. (Linz), Bogner J. (München), Brockhaus W. (Nürnberg), Brockmeyer N.H. (Bochum), Brodt H.R. (Frankfurt/M), Büscher U. (Berlin), Buhk T. (Hamburg), Christensen S. (Münster), Doerr H.W. (Fra...

Text-to-Speech Engine with Austrian German Corpus

This paper deals with developing a unit selection speech corpus for the Austrian variety of German by (re)using the resources for German and adapt them to Austrian German. This means adaptation on different levels such as lexicon level, phone level, or speech data level, whereas a compromise between reusing the given resource and an exact time-consuming phonetic transcription has to be found. I...

German-Austrian recommendations for HIV postexposure prophylaxis.

AMISCO: The Austrian German Multi-Sensor Corpus

We introduce a unique, comprehensive Austrian German multi-sensor corpus with moving and non-moving speakers to facilitate the evaluation of estimators and detectors that jointly detect a speaker’s spatial and temporal parameters. The corpus is suitable for various machine learning and signal processing tasks, linguistic studies, and studies related to a speaker’s fundamental frequency (due to ...