This paper presents naturalness improvement in Thai unit-selection text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) based on prosody modeling. Although several modeling approaches of prosodic parameters in Thai speech have been proposed, they have not been proven to provide a promising performance when practically assembling in a synthesizer. In this paper, two learning machines for phrase break and phoneme dura...

Tone classification is a necessary part for Thai speech recognition. This paper present the work based on our former work described in our published paper ref. [1] and the published paper ref. [2]. Several configurations of tone classification front-end for large vocabulary Thai speech corpus are implemented and compared. They include the tone-critical segments, feature setting, frequency scale...

Cervical cancer is the most common cancer among Thai women, with the agestandardized incidence rate (ASR) of 24.7 per 100,000. In Thailand, an estimated 7,000 new cases occur each year. Cervical cancer is the third, behind liver and lung cancer, leading cause of cancer mortality among Thai women. There are approximately 7 women die every day from cervical cancer. The peak incidence of cervical ...

As a sequel to comparison between reports by parents, we compared behavioral/emotional problems of 6-11-yr-old Thai and American children reported by teachers. These revealed higher ratings for Thai than for American children on nearly all problems showing significant cross-national differences. Thai children were rated higher on both overcontrolled and undercontrolled behavior and had more ove...

Thai intonation can be categorized as paralinguistic information of F0 contour of the utterance. There are three classes of intonation pattern in Thai, the Fall Class, the Rise Class, and the Convolution Class. This paper presents a method of intonation pattern recognition of Thai utterance. Two intonation feature contours, extracted from F0 contour, were proposed. The feature contours were con...

Numerative classifiers are ubiquitous in many Asian languages. This paper proposes a method to construct a taxonomy of numerative classifiers based on a nounclassifier agreement database. The taxonomy defines superordinate-subordinate relation among numerative classifiers and represents the relations in tree structures. The experiments to construct taxonomies were conducted for evaluation by us...

This paper presents an algorithm for Thai-English crosslanguage transliterated word retrieval. The algorithm enables retrieval of documents containing either the English keywords or the corresponding English-to-Thai transliterated words. This is done by retrieving documents based on phonetic codes of keywords rather than the keywords themselves. The phonetic coding is based on the Soundex codin...

This paper examines the development of electronic government (egovernment) in Thailand. The development of information technology (IT) projects in Thai public agencies was initiated in the early 1990s, albeit without developing a national IT master plan or establishing a national IT agency. However, when many problems arose in the use of IT in public agencies, the Thai government formulated in ...

Background: As the Thai school lunch program (Thai SLP) is crucial for children’s health, there should be another way to improve quality of lunches. This study aimed address problems arising from SLP operation, prioritize problems, and devise strategies help resolve those issues under SLP.

BACKGROUND A strong inverse relationship of functional limitation and socioeconomic status has been established in western ageing society. Functional limitation can be related to chronic diseases, disuse, cognitive decline, and ageing. Among chronic diseases in the Thai population, cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes, and arthritis are common. These factors are known to contribute to disability ...