Modeling Speaker Behavior: A Comparison of Two Approaches

EFFECTS OF THE HARDENED NICKEL COATING ON THE FATIGUE BEHAVIOR OF CK45 STEEL: EXPERIMENTAL, FINITE ELEMENT METHOD, AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELING

Hardened nickel coating is widely used in many industrial applications and manufacturing processes because of its benefits in improving the corrosion fatigue life. It is clear that increasing the coating thickness provides good protection against corrosion. However, it reduces the fatigue life. Thus, applying a thin layer of coated nickel might give an acceptable corrosion protection with minim...

A comparison of different network based modeling methods for prediction of the torque of a SI engine equipped with variable valve timing

Nowadays, due to increasing the complexity of IC engines, calibration task becomes more severe and the need to use surrogate models for investigating of the engine behavior arises. Accordingly, many black box modeling approaches have been used in this context among which network based models are of the most powerful approaches thanks to their flexible structures. In this paper four network base...

Analytical comparison of approaches based on virtue ethics: "Philosophical ethics" in Islam and "behavior training" in the West

The growth of the ideas of Greek philosophers and the founders of the ethics of virtue in the context of Islam led to the formation of one of the most important approaches to the training of religious ethics, "philosophical ethics". In the contemporary West, the approach of " behavior training " as a new virtuosity, was able to be again considered by educational thinkers in the face of years of...

Performance evaluation of the speaker-independent HMM-based speech synthesis system "HTS 2007" for the Blizzard Challenge 2007

This paper describes a speaker-independent/adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis system developed for the Blizzard Challenge 2007. The new system, named “HTS-2007”, employs speaker adaptation (CSMAPLR+MAP), feature-space adaptive training, mixed-gender modeling, and full-covariance modeling using CSMAPLR transforms, in addition to several other techniques that have proved effective in our previou...

Viscoelastic Modeling of the Recovery Behavior of Cut Pile Carpet After Static Loading: A Comparison Between Linearand Nonlinear Models

A Comparison of Normalization and Training Approaches for ASR-Dependent Speaker Identification1

In this paper we discuss a speaker identification approach, called ASR-dependent speaker identification, that incorporates phonetic knowledge into the models for each speaker. This approach differs from traditional methods for performing textindependent speaker identification, such as global Gaussian mixture modeling, that typically ignore the phonetic content of the speech signal. We introduce...