G.J. Lewis a,∗, J.W.A. Sachtler a, J.J. Low a, D.A. Lesch a, S.A. Faheem a, P.M. Dosek a, L.M. Knight a, L. Halloran a, C.M. Jensen b, Jun Yang c, Andrea Sudik c, Donald J. Siegel c, Christopher Wolverton c, Vidvuds Ozolins d, Shu Zhang e a UOP LLC, 25 E. Algonquin Rd, Des Plaines, IL 60017, USA b Hawaii Hydrogen Carriers, LLC, Honolulu, HI, USA c Ford Motor Company, Research and Advanced Engin...

A Text-to-Speech system for synthesising the Greek language has been developed in Computer laboratory of the University of Patras (UOP). The system is composed of a core and different interfaces so that is compatible for Windows applications using Microsoft SAPI. The Greek TTS synthesizer uses waveform unit concatenation technology working with a sophisticated speech database and produces good ...

By the early twentieth century, Britain and all of its Atlantic colonies prohibited the “pretended” use of supernatural powers or rituals such as fortunetelling, obeah, sorcery, and witchcraft. Legislators and others policymakers throughout the Anglophone Atlantic justified these proscriptions using similar narratives; they described occult practitioners as charlatans and vagabonds. Metropolita...