Recently, an increasing attention has been paid to Mandarin word stress which is important for improving the naturalness of speech synthesis. Most of the research on Mandarin spee...
Ya Li, Jianhua Tao, Meng Zhang, Shifeng Pan, Xiaoy...
In human speech production, the voice source contains important non-lexical information, especially relating to a speaker's voice quality. In this study, direct measurements ...
The prosody of a sentence (utterance) when it appears in a discourse context differs substantially from when it is uttered in isolation. This paper addresses why paragraph is a di...
Schema matching is a fundamental issue to many database applications, such as query mediation and data warehousing. It becomes a challenge when different vocabularies are used to r...
The Ranking web of World Repositories (http://repositories.webometrics.info) is introduced. The objective is to promote Open Access Initiatives supporting the use of repositories ...