Speech is the most natural and effective medium of communication among the human beings. Speech has played a great role in the evolution of human civilization. Speech synthesis is an artificial way of producing speech. The native speakers of any language use their knowledge base of various prosodic features during the speech production. These features they acquire unconsciously in childhood. Wi...

(11:21); hence from the very nature of creation Browne may conclude: "All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and mystical mathematics of the City of Heaven." Browne could not know in 1658 that he would live for another 24 years. As though The Garden of Cyrus is actually his final work he joins it, like a snake swallowing i...

On May 8th, 2011, the speakers from the Cornell Topology Festival gave a panel discussion on recent developments (other than their own work) and interesting questions in topology and related fields. The speakers were asked to limit their presentations to 5 minutes. Notes were taken and complied by Cornell graduate students. Any errors in what follows are almost certainly due to us, and not the ...

This paper brings together the practical applications and the evaluation of the first Text-to-Speech (TTS) system for Sinhala using the Festival framework and an Optical Character Recognition system for Sinhala.

In 2005, a new production of Jane Harrison's Stolen will be presented at the Sydney Theatre Company, seven years after its premiere in a co-production by Ilbijerri and Playbox Theatre companies in 1998 at the Melbourne International Festival for the Arts. The first draft of the play was presented by Ilbijerri at the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 1993, and already, it signalled a new mode of stor...

The aim of this study was to assess helmet use and associated factors among motorcycle riders during Songkran festival in Thailand. A cross-sectional survey was conducted to determine the prevalence of helmet use among Thai motorcycle riders (sample size = 18,998) during four days of the Songkran festival. For this sample, the population of motorcycle riders was consecutively selected using quo...

striking fact, namely, with the admission journal of a pilgrim hospital at Puri." " And," Pettenkofer continues, " when one finally compares the sums of the cholera in individual months, it appears that in the mass of pilgrims constantly coming and going throughout the year?which, in the middle of March, at the time of the chief festival, attains a very excessive maximum?cholera moves with the ...

This paper describes recent work on a largescale, distributed audio installation entitled Ordnance Survey. It explores problems associated with presenting an overview of large, complex data sets in real-time. This is accomplished through the creation of a spatially separate audio-visual environment in a manner that aims to provide an immersive experience of disparate events in a single locality...

Macroscopic behavior of scientific and societal systems results from the aggregation of microscopic behaviors of their constituent elements, but connecting the macroscopic with the microscopic in human behavior has traditionally been difficult. Manifestations of homophily, the notion that individuals tend to interact with others who resemble them, have been observed in many small and intermedia...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the cognitive tourists for Penghu Ocean Firework Festival attraction situation. There is also analysis of attraction, service quality, and perceived value for behavioral intention. This study used questionnaires to the island of Taiwan to the Penghu ornamental Penghu Ocean Firework Festival targeting tourists, adopted the designated non-random sampling in...