My Voice

Reducing sexual victimization among adolescent girls: a randomized controlled pilot trial of my voice, my choice.

Despite extensive efforts to develop and implement programs to prevent sexual violence, few programs have empirically-demonstrated efficacy. The primary exceptions are programs that emphasize risk-reduction skills; yet even these programs are not consistently effective. This study seeks to add to the literature by evaluating the effects of My Voice, My Choice (MVMC), a 90-minute assertive resis...

My-Own-Voice: A Web Service That Allows You to Create a Text-to-Speech Voice From Your Own Voice

My-Own-Voice is a service that provides a tool to end-users who want to have their voices synthesized by a high-quality commercial-grade Text-to-Speech system without the need to install, configure or manage speech-processing software and equipment. The system records and validates users’ utterances with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), to build an HMM or a Unit Selection synthetic voice. Al...

painting and essay competition: my city, my neighborhood

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O-23: "Caring My Family Integrity"

Finding my own voice through the breast cancer journey: humour, sadness and smurfs

May 2011, I recall sitting in the Breast Surgeons’ office and being handed a book. It was more of a manual than a book – a sort of ring-bound, half book-half guide that gave me ‘everything I wanted to know’ about the early stage breast cancer journey. The word ‘journey’ has stuck with me for a long time. I have asked myself: what sort of person wants to take this journey, should a journey be ab...