MLLP-VRAIN Spanish ASR Systems for the Albayzín-RTVE 2020 Speech-To-Text Challenge: Extension

This paper describes the automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems built by the MLLP-VRAIN research group of Universitat Politècnica de València for the Albayzín-RTVE 2020 Speech-to-Text Challenge, and includes an extension of the work consisting of building and evaluating equivalent systems under the closed data conditions from the 2018 challenge. The primary system (p-streaming_1500ms_nlt) was a hybrid ASR system using streaming one-pass decoding with a context window of 1.5 seconds. This system achieved 16.0% WER on the test-2020 set. We also submitted three contrastive systems. From these, we highlight the system c2-streaming_600ms_t which, following a similar configuration as the primary system with a smaller context window of 0.6 s, scored 16.9% WER points on the same test set, with a measured empirical latency of 0.81 ± 0.09 s (mean ± stdev). That is, we obtained state-of-the-art latencies for high-quality automatic live captioning with a small WER degradation of 6% relative. As an extension, the equivalent closed-condition systems obtained 23.3% WER and 23.5% WER, respectively. When evaluated with an unconstrained language model, we obtained 19.9% WER and 20.4% WER; i.e., not far behind the top-performing systems with only 5% of the full acoustic data and with the extra ability of being streaming-capable. Indeed, all of these streaming systems could be put into production environments for automatic captioning of live media streams.

Experimental Investigation of Innovative Thermal Mechanical Refrigeration System

The current electrical refrigeration and air condition systems are considered as one of the major sources for ozone depletion and global warming problems. Furthermore, they consume a large percentage of the worldwide gross production of electricity (around 17%). Therefore, developing new refrigeration systems that might be able to work using renewable sources (solar, geothermal, etc.) and waste heat sources is necessary to address these problems. In this paper, the experimental investigation of an innovative thermal-mechanical refrigeration (TMR) system is presented. The TMR system replaces the electric compressor of the conventional refrigeration systems with an innovative expander-compressor unit (two connected double-acting cylinders). The proposed ECU can be driven by ultra-low heat temperature sources, has simple configuration, and high flexibility for the operating conditions. A hybrid electric-compressor and ECU refrigeration setup was developed to investigate the performance of the ECU and compare it to that of an electric compressor. The experiment was conducted using R134a as a working fluid at different masses. The results show that a maximum COP of 0.57 is obtained at a refrigerant mass of 30g (in electric mode) and a maximum COP of 0.41 is obtained at a refrigerant mass of 60g (in ECU mode).

Home Automation Using Bluetooth

This paper reviews basically about Bluetooth based home automation system. It is controlled by PIC microcontroller. Home automation can be defined as the ability to perform tasks automatically and monitor or change status remotely. These include tasks such as turning off lights in the room, locking doors via smartphone, automate air condition systems and appliances which help in the kitchen. Now a days several wireless devices are available such as Bluetooth, Zigbee and GSM. Since Bluetooth is low in cost than the other two and hence is used more. In this paper we have described the methods of automating different home appliances using Bluetooth and pic microcontroller. Different sensors are involved in this system to advance and make it smarter. Sensors such as temperature sensor, liquid sensors, humidity sensor etc. can be used.

Energy Conservation Technique for Air Conditioner and Fan in Residential Applications

The air conditioner system plays a very essential role in our everyday lives. But air condition systems consume a lot of power. In this project, fan and AC are clubbed together and will work at different interval of time. This project is based on time variant i.e. if we set the delay time of say(1 hour) the AC will operate for 1 hour while the Fan is OFF and after 1 hour the AC will turn OFF and the Fan will operate and this operation will keep on repeating till the supply is turn OFF. The delay time for the operation of AC and Fan can be set according to our requirement through the program given to the arduino Different case studies was discussed for different Air conditioner companies for different capacities and their energy saving was analyzed for different cases.

Resolving critical degrees of entanglement in Olympic ring systems

Olympic systems are collections of small ring polymers whose aggregate properties are largely characterized by the extent (or absence) of topological linking in contrast with the topological entanglement arising from physical movement constraints associated with excluded volume contacts or arising from chemical bonds. First, discussed by de Gennes, they have been of interest ever since due to their particular properties and their occurrence in natural organisms, for example, as intermediates in the replication of circular DNA in the mitochondria of malignant cells or in the kinetoplast DNA networks of trypanosomes. Here, we study systems that have an intrinsic one, two, or three-dimensional character and consist of large collections of ring polymers modeled using periodic boundary conditions. We identify and discuss the evolution of the dimensional character of the large scale topological linking as a function of density. We identify the critical densities at which infinite linked subsystems, the onset of percolation, arise in the periodic boundary condition systems. These provide insight into the nature of entanglement occurring in such course grained models. This entanglement is measured using Gauss linking number, a measure well adapted to such models. We show that, with increasing density, the topological entanglement of these systems increases in complexity, dimension, and probability.

Research on Innovation Design of Air Filter Mould Based on Field-Substance Analysis

Air filter is the important part of air condition systems for the high-speed railways, which has an immediate impact on the air quality. Mould is used for the formation of air filter with the corresponding surface shape. The problem appeared with breakage of the steel wire during the formation process by the mould. Field-Substance analysis and 76 standard solutions are used to describe the problem and generate the solution. The validity of the innovation design is proved with the implementation during the manufacturing practice.

Energy Performance Simulation Study on VAV Air Condition System at SPSU Campus Office Building with EnergyPlus

Based on the air condition systems theorem, by EnergyPlus7.0 the office building models were built up with the variable air volume (VAV) and constant air volume (CAV) systems separately at SPSU campus in the USA. The weather datum from Department of Energy US were used to simulate the energy consumption performance both daily and annually. Results show that the VAV system saves the sensible cooling rate 19.25% compared with the CAV one in the hottest day. The VAV system saves the sensible cooling rate 8.95% and reduces the outdoor infiltration sensible heat gain about 35.06% yearly. The VAV terminal-damper position doesnt change linearly as the outdoor climate temperature for the complex system in heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC). Though the outdoor temperature is the same, the system sensible cooling rate is greatly different in autumn and spring day.