IT companies have spent billions of dollars creating ways to move data more efficiently and cheaply in an increasingly ...

Objective In 2018, the Chinese tobacco industry initiated the nationwide ‘civilised smoking environment’ campaign via a 5-year action plan. The goal of this study was to analyse content of reports ...

Speech synthesis technology has made notable strides, yet challenges remain in delivering real-time, natural-sounding audio. Common obstacles include latency, pronunciation accuracy, and speaker ...

We propose a novel solution, the hyperdimensional vector quantized variational auto encoder (HDVQ-VAE), which seamlessly merges binary encodings with codebook representations in ML systems. Our ...

A codebook for assessing VC with indicators for varying levels of complexity across these dimensions was developed and can be used with the Structured Clinical Interview for Voice-Hearers. Inter-rater ...

Abstract: This article evaluates the performances of bag-of-words (BoWs) classification models on biometric applications using surface electromyographic (sEMG) signals generated by hand gestures.