The synthetic voice produced from an HMM-based system is often reported as sounding muffled when it is compared to natural speech. There are several reasons for this effect: some precise and fine characteristics of the natural speech are removed, minimized or hidden in the modeling phase of the HMM system; the resulting speech-parameter trajectories become oversmoothed versions of the speech wa...

Traditionally, subjective text-to-speech (TTS) evaluation is performed through audio-only listening tests, where participants evaluate unrelated, context-free utterances. The ecological validity of these tests is questionable, as they do not represent real-world end-use scenarios. In this paper, we examine a novel approach to TTS evaluation in an imagined end-use, via a complex interaction with...

Interpolation is the method of enlarging or stretching an image from a smaller original image to a larger resultant image. Whereas, Texture synthesis is the method of cleaning the image by using patches or pixels for making the image resolution higher and better than the original image. Here in this paper we have given an overview of different Interpolation and Texture Synthesis Methods. We hav...

The problem of synthesizing novel views consists of generating new views of a scene using at least two reference views. The new generated views, called also novel views, correspond to virtual viewpoints where no real camera has taken snapshots. In the last few year, view synthesis has been a thriving field of research in both computer vision and computer graphics. Applications of novel view syn...

A qualitative synthesis of research into social motivational influences across the athletic career span R.J. Keegan, C.M. Spray, C.G. Harwood & D.E. Lavallee To cite this article: R.J. Keegan, C.M. Spray, C.G. Harwood & D.E. Lavallee (2014) A qualitative synthesis of research into social motivational influences across the athletic career span, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health,...

OBJECTIVES Synthesizing qualitative research is an important means of ensuring the needs, preferences, and experiences of patients are taken into account by service providers and policy makers, but the range of methods available can appear confusing. This study presents the methods for synthesizing qualitative research most used in health research to-date and, specifically those with a potentia...

BACKGROUND A variety of different approaches to the synthesis of qualitative data are advocated in the literature. The aim of this paper is to describe the application of a pragmatic method of qualitative evidence synthesis and the lessons learned from adopting this "best fit" framework synthesis approach. METHODS An evaluation of framework synthesis as an approach to the qualitative systemat...