This paper examines whether observed phenomena in energy declination can be used to improve the naturalness of synthetic speech. In two production experiments different aspects of intensity fall-off within utterances are analysed including degree of stress, phrase length, phrase boundaries. Energy manipulation was carried out using diphone synthesis as a basis for generating stimuli for percept...

One form of assisted training is a downhill sprint, which uses portion gravity. This study aimed to compare sprinting on multiple and level ground clarify the parameters related sprint velocity differences in movement. The subjects were 17 male university athletics students, made 50 m five slopes (slope = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5°), respectively. results showed that higher than for at all (1°, 2°, 3°, 4°,...

BACKGROUND The most commonly primary intramedullary spinal cord tumors (ISCT) in adults are the noninfiltrative lesions, corresponding to Klekamp's type A classification. There are few reports exclusively considering this type of lesions, their resectability and postoperative functional declination risk, and to our knowledge, none from Latin America. This led us to evaluate our results to provi...

This paper investigated how dialectal variations can influence the realization of tonal register and declination pattern in Taiwan Mandarin. Twelve speakers, six from the Northern dialect (standard) and six from the Central dialect (nonstandard), were recruited for a reading task. Target syllables of Tone 1 (T1) were embedded in a carrier sentence in three different sentential positions, initia...

This paper looks at voice source correlates of declination. This follows a line of research that proposes that prosody is primarily signalled by the temporal modulation of the voice source, and not just F0. Inverse filtering and source parameterisation was carried out on twelve 3-accent sentences of Connemara Irish (Declaratives, WH questions and Yes/No questions). All have a falling intonation...

The Visual Magnitude Satellite Catalogue effort [1] presently employs a simple straight-line model for solar phaseand declination-angle dependencies, an approach that, at least for declination angle, lacked any real pedigree. The present attempt to improve the modeling began by investigating several competing gridding techniques that would allow two-parameter brightness dependencies to be displ...