Some anecdotes on Demosthenes: a rereading

Anecdotes

The well-known Arpanet was the first operational packet-switching network. 1 Almost completely unknown is what we claim was the second operational packet-switching network, the LFK Network—although, admittedly , it was a fairly minimal network. Work on the LFK Network began in fall 1970, and it was installed and accepted by fall 1972. It was used as part of a logistics system relating to the No...

Anecdotes

Rereading Einstein on Radiation

Albert Einstein tinha um talento genial para extrair teoria revolucionária de simples considerações: do postulado de uma velocidade universal, ele criou a relatividade especial; do prinćıpio da equivalência, ele criou a relatividade geral; de argumentos elementares baseados em estat́ıstica, ele descobriu os quanta de energia. Seu artigo de 1905 sobre a quantização do campo de radiação (frequente...

DEMOSTHeNES Speech Composer

In this paper we present the design and development of a modular and scalable speech composer named DEMOSTHeNES. It has been designed for converting plain or formatted text (e.g. HMTL) to a combination of speech and audio signals. DEMOSTHeNES' architecture constitutes an extension to current Text-to-Speech systems’ structure that enables an open set of module-defined functions to interact with ...

The DEMOSTHeNES speech composer

In this paper we present the design and development of a modular and scalable speech composer named DEMOSTHeNES. It has been designed for converting plain or formatted text (e.g. HMTL) to a combination of speech and audio signals. DEMOSTHeNES' architecture constitutes an extension to current Text-to-Speech systems’ structure that enables an open set of module-defined functions to interact with ...