scholarly journals Wikispeech

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Wettin
Keyword(s):  
Text To Speech ◽  
Speech Technology ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Speech Data

Wikispeech is a free and open text-to-speech (TTS) solution that runs on MediaWiki. Wikispeech will make the Wikimedia projects speak – for anyone, illiterate, blind, or just belonging to the quarter of the world's population who prefer learning from listening rather than reading.  In the true Wikimedia fashion, volunteers will be able to improve the quality of Wikispeech. Errors and flaws can be corrected, and in the long run, new voices and languages can be added.  As part of the project, tools for collecting speech data will be developed. With this data, new voices can be created. And both the tools and the data will of course be released under a free license, so that they can be used in other speech technology projects too.

Does Grit Matter to Employees’ Quality of Work Life and Quality of Life? The Case of the Korean Public Sector

2021 ◽  
pp. 009102602110127
Author(s):  
Min Young Kim ◽  
Hyo Joo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Work Motivation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Long Run

To ensure the quality of the work done in the Korean career civil service system (which is characterized by stability, such as lifelong job security), the public sector must use methods to motivate their employees and improve their performance in the long run. In this study, we propose that grit, as a type of work motivation, can boost employee well-being (i.e., job satisfaction, job stress) and organizational outcomes (i.e., organizational commitment, performance). Therefore, the main objective of this study is to assess the validity of grit among public employees from a collectivist culture; to this end, we use the 2016 survey of Korean public officials ( N = 2,070). The results are as follows: (a) grit has a direct positive effect on quality of work life (QWL), (b) QWL can increase employee’s quality of life (QOL), and (c) professionalism and goal-oriented culture negatively and positively regulate grit and QWL. We also examined how employee motivation (e.g., grit) can enrich their QWL and QOL. Altogether, this study supports the argument that human resource (HR) managers should pay attention to grit. To achieve success, one needs not only some level of ability but also the zeal and capacity for hard labor, the latter two of which are considered to constitute grit. Given that, this research targeted grit in the Korean context—not the Western one—and examined its effects in the Korean public sector, where conscientiousness is emphasized.

Predicting the quality of text-to-speech systems from a large-scale feature set

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Hinterleitner ◽  
Christoph R. Norrenbrock ◽  
Sebastian Möller ◽  
Ulrich Heute
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Text To Speech ◽  
Scale Feature

Brazil and Russia: Different Trajectories of Development?

2012 ◽  
pp. 92-104
Author(s):  
G. Irishin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Brics Countries ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Main Emphasis ◽  
The World

This publication represents the materials of the regular academic seminar “The current problems of development” conducted by the Center of the problems of development and modernization within IMEMO. The attention of the key speakers and other seminar participants is focused on the comparison of the two BRICS countries – Brazil and Russia. The main emphasis is made on the analysis of the trends of social development. The point is that the quality of human capital determines the quality of economic growth, as well as the country's place in the world in the long run.

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CUSTOMER SATISFACTION AND INTERNAL SERVICE QUALITY FROM AN INTERNAL MARKETING PERSPECTIVE AND AN APPLICATION IN THE BANKING SECTOR

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-178
Author(s):  
Özlen Onurlu ◽  
Suna Karataş
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Employee Satisfaction ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Internal Marketing ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
The Relationship

In a highly competitive environment, the meeting of customer demands and expectations in an effective way is highly crucial for companies that want to have a competitive advantage and to keep on existing in the long run. The main objective of companies is making profit in a sustainable way and this is possible by assuring customer satisfaction. The quality of the services that companies offer their customers is closely related with the performance of the employees. This has made it necessary that marketing activities for employee satisfaction be developed prior to customer satisfaction. Feeling more motivated, workers start working more eagerly as a result of these marketing activities which are called internal marketing. So, companies make their profitability sustainable by means of keeping their customers satisfied and loyal. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between internal marketing activities applied to employees and employee motivations.

scholarly journals ROLE OF CONSUMPTION OF COMPOSITE FLOUR IN MANAGEMENT OF LIFESTYLE DISORDERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitaigiri Taffreeda Banua ◽  
Jaspreet Kaura ◽  
Vishesh Bhadariya ◽  
Jyoti Singh ◽  
Kartik Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Ischemic Stroke ◽  
Cardiovascular Diseases ◽  
Coeliac Disease ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Composite Flour ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Composite Flours

Composite flour is a combination of only either various grains or both various grains and vegetables it is a storehouse of various nutrients like vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and dietary fiber. In the present day, there has been an increased demand for nutritional and health-based variants of food due to changes in lifestyle and socio-economic status. There is no surprise in saying that people are seeing the food being consumed on a day-to-day basis as a status symbol and are striving to get better quality of health through the food they consume and are ready to spend huge amounts of money on the products which are so-called healthy and are being commercially marketed in a smart manner capturing both peoples mind and attention knowing to bring down various lifestyle disorders like Diabetes, Cardiovascular diseases, Hypertension, Cancer, Atherosclerosis, Ischemic stroke, Obesity, Coeliac disease, Alzheimer’s and many other diseases and disorders when consumed frequently in long run. The foods which fall under such category especially are composite flours and ready-to-cook mixes occupying more than 70% of both the food and health industry today being recommended by most of the nutritional experts. This paper is a review-based article collected from various papers focusing on role of consumption of composite flours in management of lifestyle disorders such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer etc.

scholarly journals Current Aspects of Speech Disfluency Research: Scientific Review of the International Workshop DiSS 19 (Budapest) Issues

2020 ◽  
pp. 56-74
Author(s):  
Tatiana Sineokova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Transfer ◽  
International Workshop ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Speech Technology ◽  
Scientific Review ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Speech Disfluency ◽  
Working Out

Disfluency in spontaneous speech is currently a subject of study of specialists working in different fields of knowledge. Different external manifestations of disfluency (hesitation pauses, sound prolongations, pause fillers, articulatory perseverations and lexico-grammatical repetitions, self-corrections, breaks, nonverbal means of information transfer, etc.) are being investigated. They turn out to be a convenient tool for revealing and monitoring the peculiarities of cognitive processes with the help of explicit clearly registered signals occurring in speech under the influence of a number of extralinguistic factors such as the communicative situation, the type of speech (monologic or dialogic), the language of communication (L1 or L2), the emotional state of the speaker, the age, the social status, the diseases impairing speech and mental activity, and others. Further investigation of disfluency makes it possible to solve both a number of fundamental problems connected with modeling of cognitive coding and decoding speech processes and applied tasks connected with adoption of research findings in such fields as developmental pedagogy, psychology, medicine, foreign language training, translation, automatic recognition of speech signal, etc. Up to now, a sufficient number of empirical investigations have been carried out providing a basis for working out particular models which will make it possible, in the long run, to create the overall model of disfluency in spontaneous speech. Conferences and workshops undoubtedly play an important role in uniting the efforts of specialists in this sphere. One of them is the international workshop “Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS)” that was first held in 1999. The current problems that were discussed by the participants of the workshop (production and perception speech models, age and clinical factors of disfluency, special difficulties in foreign speech production, including translation, speech technology) may be a useful reference point for researchers working on the issue.

scholarly journals PERMAINAN TRADISIONAL JAWA SEBAGAI STRATEGI PEMBELAJARAN BERBASIS KEARIFAN LOKAL UNTUK MENUMBUHKAN KETERAMPILAN GLOBAL DI MI/SD

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andi Prastowo
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
21St Century Skills ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Global Skills ◽  
High Level

The study of games in education is not new, from traditional games to modern website-based games have been done. Studies have even proved that traditional games have more proven value and benefits in the long run for education than modern games. However, the fact that the quality of education in various countries of the world is uneven, although they also know and have traditional games as part of its cultural elements. Like one of them can be seen in the quality of basic education in Indonesia, especially in the ability of thinking high level is still low. Moreover, in the 21st century students are required to have global skills of the 21st century. From this point the need to be studied about how the traditional Javanese games, as one of the greatest cultural heritages in Indonesia, can serve as a strategy to cultivate 21st century global skills for madrasah ibtidaiyah / primary school. This research is done by literature study with the method of textual criticism and external critic and then continued with synthesis. The findings of this study indicate that some traditional Javanese games are basically potential as a strategy to cultivate 21st century skills. This is not apart because the characteristics and form of some traditional Javanese game contains characteristics of 21st century skills that include critical thinking, communication, cooperation, and creativity.

scholarly journals Comparing a magnitude estimation technique and a pair comparisons technique for use in assessing quality of text‐to‐speech synthesis systems

1989 ◽  
Vol 85 (S1) ◽  
pp. S125-S125
Author(s):  
Chaslav Pavlovic ◽  
Christel Sorin ◽  
Jean Pierre Roumiguiere ◽  
Jean Pierre Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Magnitude Estimation ◽  
Speech Synthesis ◽  
Estimation Technique ◽  
Text To Speech ◽  
Pair Comparisons ◽  
Text To Speech Synthesis

scholarly journals ON NEW APPROACH TO DETERMINING HEAT-PRODUCING OF NATURAL GAS SUPPLIED TO CONSUMERS AND ITS CUBIC METROBAROMETRY

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (179) ◽  
pp. 84-89
Author(s):  
Yosyp SVOREN
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Hydrocarbon Gases ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Final Heat ◽  
Natural Gases ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Way

It is shown that with the change in pressure and temperature of natural gases in storages gas-holders, different installations one can separate water in necessary concentration from hydrates of hydrocarbon gases in their composition that forms its increased admixture in pipes and in the long run it influences the final heat-producing of the fuel. New approach was proposed as to the determing of heat-producing of natural gas supplied to consumers by the way of substantiation of the necessity to introduce such a unit as cubic metrobar (m3 bar). This would be conductive to determination of the correlation between heat-producing of produced natural gas and gas supplied to consumers, that is to say, determination of quality of consumed gas.

INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL REPORTING STUDY OF IT-SECTOR CORPORATIONS IN INDIA

2011 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 16-28
Author(s):  
Madan Lal Bhasin
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Voluntary Reporting ◽  
Reporting Practices ◽  
External Stakeholder ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Wealth Generation ◽  
Voluntary Basis

Intellectual capital (IC) can prove to be a source of competitive advantage for businesses ultimately leading to wealth generation in the long-term. At present, reporting of IC information is done by very few leading corporations purely on a “voluntary” basis. Unfortunately, the omission of IC information may adversely influence the quality of decisions made by shareholders, or lead to material misstatements. India presents an ideal case for the analysis of IC reporting by the IT corporations because the economy has been undergoing rapid transformation.This study attempts to provide an insight into the style of IC reporting done by the top IT-sector corporations in India. In order to survey the recent IC reporting practices, we conducted a study of 16 IT corporations in which “content analysis” was performed on their 2007 to 2009 annual reports. The results of this study confirmed that IC reporting in these corporations is almost negligible, and IC reporting had not received any preference from the mentors of these corporations. A major recommendation for corporations is to develop strategic and tactical initiatives that provide for ‘voluntary’ reporting of IC. These initiatives may initially be used for internal management purposes, but an external stakeholder-focus IC report should be the ultimate long-run goal.

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