This paper discusses how a concatenative Kiswahili Text to Speech System (TTS) was developed based on the Festival Unit Selection Speech Synthesiser. It explains how important Kiswahili linguistic features such as phones, stress and intonation were modelled as inputs to the Festival engine. It also discusses the design, recording and segmentation of the speech database, beginning with text corp...

In this paper, a diphone based Text-to-Speech (TTS) system for the Telugu language is presented. Telugu is one of the main south-Indian languages spoken by more than 100 million people. Speech output is generated using the Festival Speech Synthesis System and the MBROLA synthesis engine. The design and collection of diphones and voice building process are described. Our text analysis module, th...

The focus of situation-aware ubiquitous computing has increased lately. This paper proposed a new model of access control based on situationaware ubiquitous computing that offers a seamless view without interfering with concurrency control is also suggested. Currently, the regional local festivals, which are a part of community development projects that utilize the regional cultural resources o...

This paper presents a part of a more detailed study into the organisation of a community festival in the East Midlands of the UK. The focus is on how the central steering group imposed a restricted sense of culture onto the festival and how the local communities were distanced from the processes. The literature on festivals is critically reviewed before the issues of involvement and inclusion a...

In this paper we describe the design and production of a Catalan database for building synthetic voices. Two speakers have recorded 10 hours of speech each one. The speaker selection and the corpus design aim to provide resources for high quality synthesis. In fact, as a side effect, in the speaker selection proccess we have produced 10 databases of 1 hour each one which allows producing medium...

Mikuni Festival was held on a reduced scale in 2020 and 2021 because of covid-19. In this study, it investigated the management floats focused parade Festival. As result, found that there is organization makes decisions for each community. It also significance festival to float operators remained same

This paper surveys a collection of sample applications for networked user-centric context-aware embodied music listening. The applications have been designed and developed in the framework of the EU-ICT Project SAME (www.sameproject.eu) and have been presented at Agora Festival (IRCAM, Paris, France) in June 2009. All of them address in different ways the concept of embodied, active listening t...

Let L ∗ M denote the coproduct of the bounded distributive lattices L and M . At the 1981 Banff Conference on Ordered Sets, the following question was posed: What is the largest class L of finite distributive lattices such that, for every non-trivial Boolean lattice B and every L ∈ L, B ∗ L = B ∗ L′ implies L = L′? In this note, the problem is solved.

This article aims to demonstrate the importance and value of collaboration between members a formalized network Fringe festivals. The research was informed by Castells (the society, space flows, places) Richards (network-centric eventfulness, pulsar iterative events), as well publications that critique their work. combines theoretical conceptual frameworks with primary evidence, thus responding...

This interview with Hemn Hussein presents a history of the Slemani International Festival from its inception to present. The looks at practical issues funding and running festival. Attention is focused on particular context being Kurdish yet international festival significance within cultural aspirations.