This paper provides an introduction to the special issue of Journal Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events on Festival Cities Tourism. It a contextualisation conversations surrounding relationship between cities their festivals during Covid-19 pandemic. Focussing ‘festival city’ Edinburgh, we examine how festival organisers reacted challenges pandemic, they strove maintain contact with ...

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A new sinusoidal model based engine for FESTIVAL TTS system which performs the DSP (Digital Signal Processing) operations (i.e. converting a phonetic input into audio signal) of a diphone-based TTS concatenative system, taking as input the NLP (Natural Language Processing) data (a sequence of phonemes with length and intonation values elaborated from the text script) computed by FESTIVAL is des...

This paper describes the development of the first, usable, open source and freely available Bangla Text to Speech (TTS) system for Bangladeshi Bangla using the open source Festival TTS engine. Besides that, this paper also discusses a few practical applications that use this system. This system is developed using diphone concatenation approach in its waveform generation phase. Construction of a...

Uma das responsáveis pela realização do Festival Internacional de Teatro Animação (FITA), Maria Fátima Souza Moretti, mais conhecida como Sassá fala a respeito da trajetória ao longo dos 13 anos existência festival. Revisita o passado, projeta futuro.

On Thursday 23 April 2015, several protests were held outside the gates of the Barclays Annual General Meeting at the Royal Festival Hall. Several activists bought shares and attended the AGM in order to ask questions. Anti-militarist activists held a protest calling on Barclays to divest from the arms trade. One activist read out an alternative chairman's speech to the queue of shareholders wa...

In the past few years pop-music festivals on both sides of the Atlantic have rapidly increased in popularity-and length. Press and television have tended to emphasize various aspects of these assemblies, particularly the sexual licence and drug addiction, so that it was with some apprehension that-though we had agreed to staff a festival voluntarily, as we could not obtain fees-we approached ou...