on the last wednesday of every year iranians celebrate the sanctity of fire in the annual festival of chaharshanbeh soori. each year many cases of firecracker-related injuries (fri) are reported during this festival. the aim of this study was to assess the pattern of injuries and the frequency of disabilities during this period. in 2011, a cross-sectional study was conducted at the emergency de...

s (Banff Retreat) ISHN and Cheiron Joint Meeting Banff (19-23 June 2011), Alberta, Canada The Professional Development Centre in Banff (photograph courtesy of the Banff Centre for the Arts). Sunday Afternoon, June 19, 2011

The idea that computer systems should be designed through abstract representations of the use domain has been systematically challenged in the Scandinavian tradition of user involvement in design. In this paper it is suggested that ideal design should happen as a transformation of artefacts rather than through abstract representations of domains. Thus the paper emphasises that design and design...

This paper presents our work on building an expressive facial speech synthesis system Eface, which can be used on a social or service robot. Eface aims at enabling a robot to deliver information clearly with empathetic speech and an expressive virtual face. The system is built on two open source software packages: the Festival speech synthesis system, which provides robots the capability to spe...

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We describe in detail a Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P) converter required for the development of a good quality Hindi Text-to-Speech (TTS) system. The Festival framework is chosen for developing the Hindi TTS system. Since Festival does not provide complete language processing support specific to various languages, it needs to be augmented to facilitate the development of TTS systems in certain new ...

Packaging is the brand concept, product features, a comprehensive reflection of consumer psychology, it has a direct impact on consumer purchases, consumer products and packaging is to establish a powerful means of affinity. Visual communication in the study of visual processes in people's visual perception of design information flow process, it is built on people's mental and physical habits b...

Pronunciation by analogy (PbA) is a data-driven technique for the automatic phonemisation of text which is receiving renewed attention from workers in text-to-speech synthesis. It uses the dictionary which provides the primary source of pronunciations via direct look-up as a secondary source of information about the pronunciation of unknown words. In this paper, we provide theoretical and empir...

The new AT&T Text-To-Speech (TTS) system for general U.S. English text is based on best-choice components of the AT&T Flextalk TTS, the Festival System from the University of Edinburgh, and ATR’s CHATR system. From Flextalk, it employs text normalization, letter-to-sound, and prosody generation. Festival provides a flexible and modular architecture for easy experimentation and competitive evalu...