A rating instrument is described that can be used to assess the results of stuttering treatments. The instrument is designed for use with naive listeners. It yields a comprehensive and detailed description of the speech quality in terms of articulation, phonation, pitch, and loudness; in addition, it includes a naturalness scale. Analysis of ratings obtained with the instrument show that natura...

This paper presents a framework for custom-tailoring voice font in data-driven TTS systems. Three criteria for unit pruning, the prosodic outlier criterion, the importance criterion and the combination of the two, are proposed. The performance of voice fonts in different sizes which are pruned with the three criteria is evaluated by simulating speech synthesis over large amount of texts and est...

We extend the list of theories featuring a rigorous interacting ultraviolet fixed point by constructing the first theory featuring a Higgs-like scalar with gauge, Yukawa and quartic interactions. We show that the theory enters a perturbative asymptotically safe regime at energies above a physical scale 3. We determine the salient properties of the theory and use it as a concrete example to test...

We present a supersymmetric model of electroweak symmetry-breaking exhibiting improved naturalness, wherein the stop mass can be pushed beyond the reach of the Large Hadron Collider without unnatural fine tuning. This implies that supersymmetry may still solve the hierarchy problem, even if it eludes detection at the LHC. CONSTRAINTS ON THE SCALE OF NEW PHYSICS The standard model (SM) of partic...

This paper introduces a semantics for rewriting that is independent of the data being rewritten and which, nevertheless, models key concepts such as substitution which are central to rewriting algorithms. We demonstrate the naturalness of this construction by showing how it mirrors the usual treatment of algebraic theories as coequalizers of monads. We also demonstrate its naturalness by showin...