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Loquendo
Loquendo was an Italian multinational computer software technology corporation, headquartered in Torino, Italy, that provides speech recognition, speech synthesis, speaker verification and identification applications. Loquendo, which was founded in 2001 under the Telecom Italia Lab (formerly, CSELT), also had offices in United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France, and the United States. Current business products to can be found in portable and in-car navigation devices, assistive devices for the differently able, smartphones, ebook readers, talking ATMs, computer games, voice-controlled domestic appliances and others. The voice synthesis and speech recognition systems is used in a new e-health application as part of Spain's Junta de Andalucía Government Health Service's virtual assistant. Loquendo's products have been the recipient of several awards including being a Speech Technologies Speech Engine Leader in 2007, 2008, and 2009 It was rated as 'Market Leader' by Speech Techn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CSELT
Telecom Italia Lab S.p.A. (formerly Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni S.p.A.; CSELT) is an Italian research center for telecommunication based in Torino, the biggest in Italy and one of the most important in Europe. It played a major role internationally especially in the standardization of protocols and technologies in telecommunication: perhaps the most widely well known is the standardization of mp3. CSELT has been active from 1964 to 2001, initially as a part of the IRI- STET group, the major conglomerate of Italian public Industries in the 1960s and 1970s; it later became part of Telecom Italia Group. In 2001 was renamed Telecom Italia Lab as part of Telecom Italia Group. Research areas Transmission technology and fiber optics CSELT became internationally known at the end of 1960s thanks to a cooperation with the US-based company COMSAT for a pilot project of TDMA (and PCM) satellite communication system. Furthermore, in 1971 it started a joint research w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Ciaramella
Alberto Ciaramella (born 1947) is an Italian computer engineer and scientist. He is notable for extensive pioneering contributions in the field of speech technologies and applied natural language processing, most of them at CSELT and Loquendo, with the amount of 40 papers and four patents. Biography Ciaramella obtained the Laurea in Electronic Engineering and the Post-Laurea in 1969 at La Sapienza University in Rome with prof. Antonio Ruberti as supervisor of his thesis. Then, he joined CSELT as a research engineer. In 1975 he patented at CSELT one of the first architecture-independent bootstrap devices that allowed the ''Gruppi Speciali'' (the first electronic Italian telephone switch and the most advanced project in Italian in the seventies) to start up by pushing a single button from a ROM memory in case of failure. During the 80s Ciaramella took part in some European projects (Esprit P26, SUNDIAL) in the pioneering field of speech recognition and dialogue systems on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speaker Verification
Speaker recognition is the identification of a person from characteristics of voices. It is used to answer the question "Who is speaking?" The term voice recognition can refer to ''speaker recognition'' or speech recognition. Speaker verification (also called speaker authentication) contrasts with identification, and ''speaker recognition'' differs from '' speaker diarisation'' (recognizing when the same speaker is speaking). Recognizing the speaker can simplify the task of translating speech in systems that have been trained on specific voices or it can be used to authenticate or verify the identity of a speaker as part of a security process. Speaker recognition has a history dating back some four decades as of 2019 and uses the acoustic features of speech that have been found to differ between individuals. These acoustic patterns reflect both anatomy and learned behavioral patterns. Verification versus identification There are two major applications of speaker recognition techn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speech Technology (magazine)
''Speech Technology'' is a magazine published four times a year by Information Today, Inc. The magazine discusses deployments, advances and other industry news in its magazine and on its website. Its headquarters is in Medford, New Jersey. In addition, each year ''Speech Technology'' hosts the largest educational speech technology conference in the United States. SpeechTEK is attended by technology professionals from around the globe. History ''Speech Technology'' magazine was founded in 1995 at the first SpeechTEK developers conference in Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ..., with the goal of reporting on the then-nascent speech industry. It was purchased in 2006 by Information Today, Inc., a 29-year-old, Medford-based integrated media company specializing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frère Jacques
"Frère Jacques" (, ), also known in English as "Brother John", is a nursery rhyme of French origin. The rhyme is traditionally sung in a round. The song is about a friar who has overslept and is urged to wake up and sound the bell for the matins, the midnight or very early morning prayers for which a friar would be expected to be awake. Lyrics Frère Jacques, Frère Jacques, Dormez-vous? Dormez-vous? Sonnez les matines! Sonnez les matines! Din, din, don. Din, din, don. English translation Brother Jacques, Brother Jacques, Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping? Ring/Sound he bells formatins! Ring he bells formatins! Ding, ding, dong. Ding, ding, dong. Traditional English lyrics Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping? Brother John, Brother John, Morning bells are ringing! Morning bells are ringing! Ding, dang, dong. Ding, dang, dong. The song concerns a friar's duty to ring the morning bells (). Frère Jacques has apparently overslept; it is time to ring the mornin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MUSA (MUltichannel Speaking Automaton)
Multichannel Speaking Automaton (MUSA) was an early prototype of Speech Synthesis machine started in 1975. Description It consisted of a stand-alone computer hardware and a specialized software that implemented a diphone-synthesis technology. It was one of the first real-time TTS systems. It was able to read Italian in intellegibile robotic voice and also to sing managing up to 8 synthesis channels in parallel thanks to Linear predictive coding technology. In 1978 it was released, after the building of a working prototype, a 45" rpm audio disk containing some trial content of such synthesis, including the song ''" Fra Martino Campanaro"'' in "a cappella" (multiple voices) style, attached to some commercial reviews. The experiment was conducted by CSELT, Turin, Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio Modena
Giulio () is an Italian given name. It is also used as a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name A–K * Giulio Alberoni (1664–1752), Italian cardinal and statesman * Giulio Alenio (1582–1649), Italian Jesuit missionary and scholar * Giulio Alfieri (1924–2002), Italian automobile engineer * Giulio Andreotti (1919–2013), Italian politician * Giulio Carlo Argan (1909–1992), Italian politician and art historian * Giulio Base (born 1964), Italian film director * Giulio Berruti (born 1984), Italian film and television actor * Giulio Bizzozero (1846–1901), Italian physician * Giulio Bosetti (1930–2009), Italian actor and director * Giulio Brogi (1935–2019), Italian actor * Giulio Caccini ( 1545–1618), Florentine composer, significant innovator of the early Baroque era * Giulio Calì (1895–1967), Italian actor * Giulio Camillo ( 1480–1544), Italian philosopher * Giulio Campagnola ( 1482–1515), Italian painter * Giulio Campi (1500–1572), Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diphone
In phonetics, a diphone is an adjacent pair of phones in an utterance. For example, in aɪfəʊn the diphones are a ɪ �f ə �ʊ �n The term is usually used to refer to a recording of the transition between two phones. In the following diagram, a stream of phones are represented by P1, P2, etc., and the corresponding diphones are represented by D1-2, D2-3, etc.: , P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, , D1-2=, D2-3=, D3-4=, D4-5=, D5-6=, If the number of phones in a language is P, the theoretical number of possible diphones is P2. However, since all languages have restrictions about what sounds can occur next to each other (see ''phonotactics''), the number of diphones in each language is usually much smaller than P2. Spanish has about 800 diphones and German about 2,500. Diphones are useful in speech synthesis Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Padua
The University of Padua (, UNIPD) is an Italian public research university in Padua, Italy. It was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from the University of Bologna, who previously settled in Vicenza; thus, it is the second-oldest university in Italy, as well as the world's fifth-oldest surviving university. The University of Padua was one of the most prominent universities in early modern Europe, known particularly for the rigor of its Aristotelian logic and science. Together with the University of Bologna, Padua had a central role in the Italian Renaissance, housing and educating a number of Italian Renaissance mathematicians, amongst them Nicolaus Copernicus. , it is made up of 32 departments and eight schools. Padua is part a network of historical research universities known as the Coimbra Group. In 2021, the university had approximately 72,000 students including undergraduates, postgraduates, and doctoral students. History The university is conventionally s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musa
Musa may refer to: Places *Mūša, a river in Lithuania and Latvia * Musa, Azerbaijan, a village in Yardymli Rayon * Musa, Iran, a village in Ilam province, Iran * Musa, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Iran * Musa Kalayeh, Gilan province, Iran * Abu Musa, an island in the Persian Gulf, Hormozgan province, Iran * Musa, Kerman, Kerman province, Iran * Musa, Bukan, West Azerbaijan province, Iran * Musa, Maku, West Azerbaijan province, Iran * Musa, Pakistan, a village in Chhachh, Attock, Punjab, Pakistan * Musa, La Molina, a neighborhood in Lima, Peru * Musa (crater), an impact crater on Saturn's moon Enceladus * Musa (Tanzanian ward), a ward in Tanzania * Musa (Pori), a district of Pori, Finland * Musa Dagh a mountain peak in Turkey * Jebel Musa (Morocco), a mountain known as one of the pillars of Hercules * Jabal Musa, or Mount Sinai, a mountain in the Sinai Desert believed to be a possible location of the Biblical Mount Sinai * Muza Emporion, an ancient port city near present day Mocha, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turin
Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is mainly on the western bank of the Po (river), River Po, below its Susa Valley, and is surrounded by the western Alpine arch and Superga hill. The population of the city proper is 856,745 as of 2025, while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants. The Turin metropolitan area is estimated by the OECD to have a population of 2.2 million. The city was historically a major European political centre. From 1563, it was the capital of the Duchy of Savoy, then of the Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861), Kingdom of Sardinia ruled by the House of Savoy, and the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865. Turin is sometimes called "the cradle of Italian liberty" for having been the politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
