In this paper, we have developed a new general distance measure that not only can be used in a vector quantization (VQ) of the line spectrum frequency (LSF) parameters but performes well in the LSF transformed domain. The new distance is based on the spectral sensitivity of LSF and their transformed coe cients. In addition, the x scaling factor is used to decrease the sensitivity of spectral er...

Voice adaptation describes the process of converting the output of a text-to-speech synthesizer voice to sound like a different voice after a training process in which only a small amount of the desired target speaker’s speech is seen. We employ a locally linear conversion function based on Gaussian mixture models to map bark-scaled line spectral frequencies. We compare performance for three di...

The low level acoustico-visual association reported by Yehia et al. (Speech Comm., 26(1):23-43, 1998) is exploited for audio-visual speech enhancement with natural video sequences. The aim of this study is to demonstrate that the redundant components of AV speech are extractible with a suitable representation which does not involve any categorization process. A comparative study is achieved bet...

The pristocerine genus Eleganesia Alencar & Azevedo et al., 2018 consists of a total 20 valid extant species recorded from the Oriental and Palaearctic regions one fossil species. Four them, namely E. chitouensis, liukueiensis, meifuiae , takasago have been Taiwan, three species, daikoku elegans otohime Ryukyus Japan. In present study, species-level classification Taiwanese Ryukyuan is revised ...

Thin nanofibers (NFs) of J-dominant aggregates with a thickness of 15 nm and thick NFs of H-dominant aggregates with a thickness of 25 nm were fabricated by the self-assembly of poly(3-hexylthiophene)-coated gold nanoparticles. The formation and decay dynamics of the charge carriers, which are dependent on the aggregate types of NFs, was investigated by time-resolved emission and transient-abso...

Automatic discrimination of speech and music is an important tool in many multimedia applications. Previous work has focused on using long-term features such as differential parameters, variances, and time-averages of spectral parameters. These classifiers use features estimated over windows of 0.5–5 seconds, and are relatively complex. In this paper, we present our results of combining the lin...

This paper presents a novel algorithm which generates three-dimensional face point trajectories for a given speech le with or without its text. The proposed algorithm rst employs an o -line training phase. In this phase, recorded face point trajectories along with their speech data and phonetic labels are used to generate phonetic codebooks. These codebooks consist of both acoustic and visual f...

BACKGROUND Studies of sexual conditioning typically focus on the development of conditioned responses to a stimulus that precedes and has become associated with a sexual unconditioned stimulus (US). Such a sexually conditioned stimulus (CS) provides the opportunity for feed-forward regulation of sexual behavior, which improves the efficiency and effectiveness of the sexual activity. OBJECTIVE...