The Wöhler Festival

The International Garden Festival

N ature interpretation centers are a romantic expression of the desire to understand and experience nature without giving up the comforts of civilization. Advances in digital technologies let us collect and store masses of data about our natural environment, but we are more removed from it than ever. As a society, we find ourselves trading experience-based knowledge for comfort. Interpretation ...

Festival speaks Italian!

Finally Festival speaks Italian. In this work, the development of the first Italian version of the Festival TTS system is described. One male and one female voice for three different speech engines are considered: the Festival-specific residual LPC synthesizer, the OGI residual LPC Plug-In for Festival and the MBROLA synthesizer. The new Italian voices will be freely available for download for ...

The 1993 SRC Algorithm Animation Festival

This report describes the 1993 SRC Algorithm Animation Festival. The festival continues an experiment in developing algorithm animations by non-experts, started the previous year, and described in SRC Research Report #98. This year nineteen researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation’s Systems Research Center worked for two weeks on animating algorithms. Most of the participants had little (if...

Academic Festival Overture (brahms/

LEIDIG) (MD) -An excellent arrangement of this work written in 1879 when Brahms was given an honorary doctorate by the University of Breslau. The work is built on German student songs; the songs are developed in a variety of tempos, styles, and moods. In the closing section, the melody is presented in a stately and dramatic manner, and the orchestra plays with full force, bringing the overture ...

Edible Books Festival