Parametric speech synthesis techniques depend on full context acoustic models generated by language front-ends, which analyse linguistic and phonetic structure. HTS, the leading parametric synthesis system, can use a number of different front-ends to generate full context models for synthesis and training. In this paper we explore the use of a new text processing front-end that has been added t...

The 2012 London Olympics ushered in a new era of global Shakespearean appropriation. The Globe-to-Globe festival, held in conjunction with the Olympics, brought theater companies from many parts of the world to the United Kingdom to perform Shakespeare in their own languages (“37 plays in 37 languages”). Globe-to-Globe suggested the ethical aspirations of such ambitious Shakespearean events as ...

The Department of Music at Rhodes University inaugurated the International Spring Music Festival in 2009. One of the central educational goals of this festival is to provide a platform for student performers to interact with local and international music professionals and to exchange knowaledge about performance practice through making music together. The shortage of informal venues for public ...

BACKGROUND "Holi" is a spring festival celebrated primarily in the Indian subcontinent and also abroad by expatriate Indians. It is a festival of colors, traditionally celebrated by mutual application of colors in different forms on a particular day of the year. These colors frequently comprise a range of synthetic dyes which have harmful effects on the skin and mucosae. Children take part in t...

Artists and designers are using graphics to indicate relationships within data, to show social and political dynamics between individuals and within groups. This work can be applied to online conversations, to mapping geographical spaces, and to create technologies that foster interaction within actual physical spaces (dance for example). What levels of graphic abstraction can humans understand...

This text is related to the tutorials I gave at the Banff International Research Station and within a “Doc-course” at Charles University Prague in the fall of 2014. It describes my current research and some of the most important open questions related to it.

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Assume that i q; m; p depends only on pair-wise price di¤erences; this property can be derived from a consumer choice model with quasi-linear preferences in money. where 1 n is a vector of ones of length n: Also, assume that the FOC is su¢ cient to characterize a unique equilibrium for any symmetric cost structure. Let i m; p denote the corresponding vector specifying the probabilities over di¤...

in this research, it has been tried to survy the norooz celebration and its challenges in the islamic civilization, esp. in the caliph periods. since this ancient celebration was full of moral and humanistic concepts, it could immediately find a special harmong with the newly formed islamic culture. this celebration has been presented in the arabic literature in different forms. there fore, in ...