McGuffin (muh-GUF-in) noun, also MacGuffin A device that helps propel the plot in a story but is of little importance in itself. [Coined by film director...
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cineaste (SIN-ee-ast) noun, also cineast 1. One with deep interest in movies and moviemaking. 2. A filmmaker, especially a director or a producer. [From French...
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Jan 2, 2004 9:18 am
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Happy New Year! I just read two of James Giagola's essays over at the Voice Partners site, and if you haven't, you'll probably enjoy them. Cheers! - Phil ...
AWADmail Issue 107 Jan 4, 2004 A Compendium of Feedback on the Words in A.Word.A.Day and Other Interesting Tidbits about Words and Languages ... From: Anu Garg...
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orrery (OR-uh-ree) noun A mechanical model of the solar system that represents the relative positions and motions of the planets around the sun. [After Charles...
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NY TIMES January 3, 2004 THINK TANK Just Like, Er, Words, Not, Um, Throwaways By MICHAEL ERARD If you were hearing this instead of reading it, you might notice...
cadogan (kuh-DUG-uhn) noun A lidless teapot, inspired by Chinese wine pots, that is filled from the bottom. [After William Cadogan, 1st Earl of Cadogan...
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Jan 6, 2004 9:36 am
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For an article I'm writing, can anyone name a past use of formant synthesis that would be reasonably well known to the general public? The "Speak & Spell" toys...
i used the klatt formant synthesizer to generate a set of 12 syllables acoustically equidistant from a good ba endpoint to a good wa endpoint based on...
Andy, Check out http://www.mindspring.com/~ssshp/ssshp_cd/ss_rice.htm and http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/davies/esp7cpt.html I used to work with Lloyd at speech...
Oxfordian (oks-FORD-ee-uhn) noun 1. The theory attributing the authorship of William Shakespeare's works to Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. 2. A person who...
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Jan 7, 2004 9:13 am
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So what *did* speak&spell use? ... From: vuids@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vuids@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 7:55 AM To:...
derby (DUR-bee, British: DAHR-bee) noun 1. An annual race event for three-year-old horses, held near London, England. 2. Any of various similar horse races,...
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Jan 8, 2004 9:27 am
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Hi, Your address does not look like an academic one. Since we try to prevent spam on the list, could you point to you web page and provide full coordinates...
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Jan 13, 2004 8:07 am
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Certainly. my webpage is www.vodafone.co.uk. I am not sure what you mean by Co-ordinates? I was invited to join the vuids group by Phil Shinn, who i...
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Jan 13, 2004 8:11 am
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Jan 13, 2004 11:10 am
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actually, "Two years later, in 1980, Texas Instruments introduced linear prediction coding (LPC) based Speak-n-Spell synthesizer based on low-cost linear...
I found this: "In mid 1960s, first experiments with Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) were made (Schroeder 1993). Linear prediction was first used in low- cost...
Somebidy asked me what the expected accuracy of alphanumeric reco would be -- so, performance on recogizing a single alphanumeric (0-9, A-Z) over the phone. I...
This would be of particular interest to me as well, as numeric recognition is going to feature quite heavily in some work I am about to undertake. Larry ... ...
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Jan 15, 2004 8:19 am
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Phil, I investigated this with Nuance and found the following Individual digits we can get around 96%, but the problem comes when you string them together as...
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Jan 19, 2004 1:29 am
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Hi Larry, I think these numbers may be quoted for the individual digits, not the digits plus letter of alphabet? Could you get Nuance to verify? I guess that...
I will confirm this for you. Larry ... From: philshinn [mailto:philshinn@...] Sent: 19 January 2004 17:51 To: vuids@yahoogroups.com Subject: [vuids] Re:...
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You have been sent this message from philshinn@... as a courtesy of Speech Technology Magazine (http://www.speechtechmag.com). Learning from our...
I have been actively recruiting in the Speech Technology Industry since 1991, working closely with the management of many of the most successful companies in...
Hmm... you're already on the list A.Word.A.Day. Makes me wonder why you'd want to subscribe again. If you were trying to subscribe a friend, please use the...
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Jan 30, 2004 6:47 pm
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empyreal (em-PIR-ee-uhl, -pye-REE-) adjective 1. Relating to the highest heaven, believed to contain pure light or fire. 2. Relating to the sky; celestial. 3....
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Research Position in Natural Language Generation in Dialogue at the Human Communication Research Centre (HCRC)/School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. ...
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