There is a clear desire to collect language resources of utmost realism with respect to spontaneity of speech and naturalness of emotion. This goal is difficult to obtain as a setting is needed that provides sufficient ‘emotional moments’ while these shall not be disturbed by the speakers’ awareness of recording. An obvious setting seems to be collecting surgeon’s speech during real-life operat...

The advances in insulin therapy in the past 5 years, including the introduction of insulin analogues, have made blood glucose control in patients with type 1 diabetes much more attainable. Diabetic patients can now achieve a better quality of life, including spontaneity and flexibility in lifestyle, than was possible with earlier insulin products. Here, Dr Bohannon discusses the latest improvem...

This paper reports on recent developments for the creation and analysis of very large databases of emotional and attitudinallymarked speech for the support of research into concatenative methods for producing synthesised speech which is capable of expressing the range of prosody and phonation styles to emulate human spoken interactions. It addresses the problems of ensuring high spontaneity in ...

Sound Pryer augments traffic encounters with streaming audio. It is a collaborative car stereo allowing sharing brief and transient musical experiences among drivers. It is a peer-to-peer application for PDAs capable of wireless ad-hoc networking. We have identified seven issues concerning, studying entertaining mobile applications, the control of and the spontaneity of traffic encounters, driv...

towards the doctor-patient relationship with less formality and more spontaneity. Thoughtful actions and understandings replaced routine procedures.' And the author remarks that, 'by applying a psychotherapeutic approach to the gynaecological transactions in a contraceptive clinic, more fruitful results were obtained than by purely gynaecological skills or purely psychological and emotional cou...

In this article, the authors consider concept of spontaneity and relationship characteristic with such individual personality characteristics as locus control, autonomy, tolerance to uncertainty, creativity, self-regulation, flexibility in communication itself. The conduct an experiment that allows trace relationship. research involved 205 people between ages 18 40, including 125 living Ukraine...