Protest as Pasteur speaks English

MASSY speaks English: adaptation and evaluation of a talking head

This paper presents an extension of a talking head that was implemented to synthesize audiovisual speech utterances in German. A mapping of English to German phonemes and a subsequent refinement of the co-articulation model enables the system to generate English utterances. A modified rhyme test was carried out for evaluation in terms of intelligibility. Results show that the visualization incr...

Pasteur

Louis Pasteur

detail, a valuable contribution and a positive demonstration of his "philology and erudition". The images receive, by comparison, cursory treatment. It is only after repeated perusals that the reader grasps how simple the material really is, basically three male-female pairs dateable to 1539 and their derivatives: the De Negker-Vogtherr set from Strasbourg; the Sabio set from Venice; and the Go...

A Protest

Sir,?In to-day's issue of a Calcutta daily paper I find the enclosed advertisement sandwiched in between an advertisement for enamel paints and another for furniture: Dr.'s -Wonderful Discovery.?Specific for Hydrocele, guaranteed to cure any nature and of any standing by using this medicine externally. Price, Its. 2-8. Apply to , Calcutta. A Government big officer of Central Provinces writes:?"...

Babel speaks Hindi

Babel provides a unified interface for creation of multilingual documents. Unfortunately no Indic languages are currently supported, so typesetting in Indic languages is based on specialised packages. The most advanced of these is Velthuis Devanāgar̄ı for TEX, because it already provides Hindi values for language-dependent strings as well as a macro for a European-style date. A language definiti...