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Speech is the most basic and widely used method for communication. There is a growing need for an expressive speech synthesis especially, when human want to communicate with robots and computers. In this paper, prosody rule-sets are designed to convert neutral to storytelling style speech for Hindi language. In order to generate a storyteller speech from a neutral speech, modification in various prosodic...
In recent years, the number of students who enrolled in the course of Introduction to Information Technology at Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand is getting larger and larger. This causes the excessive teaching loads for all limited number of instructors who take responsibility of this course. It also causes some problem on study resources, such as the limited number of laboratories/classrooms...
Information processing has been the primary goal — whether it was being done manually or using sophisticated devices. Sometimes one gets the feeling that although we are drowning, we are not able to extract useful knowledge. What computing and computers have allowed us to do, over several decades, is to handle large volumes of raw data, in real-time as needed, to infer meaningful knowledge and facilitate...
A sensor node is termed as “dumb” [1], if at a certain time instant it can sense its surroundings, but is unable to communicate with any of its neighbors due to the shrinkage in communication range. Such isolation occurs because of the presence of adverse environmental effects. However, the node starts its normal operation with the resumption of favorable environmental conditions. Thus, the detection...
Sentiment lexicons are useful to automatically extract sentiment from text. In this paper, we generate several Norwegian sentiment lexicons by extracting sentiment information from two different types of Norwegian text corpus, namely, news corpus and discussions forums. The methodology is based on the Point wise Mutual Information (PMI). We introduce a modification of the PMI that considers small...
Video completion has many applications in movie post-production, such as removing unwanted objects, artifacts, or logos. Most state-of-the-art video completion techniques are time-consuming in order to ensure spatial-temporal coherence. This paper presents a Fast Video Completion (FVC) technique that is based on patch-based synthesis and image registration. FVC generates key frames without the unwanted...
As education and technology merge, the diversity of teaching and learning methods expand even more. Virtual labs are a set of web applications containing learning materials that compliment the various courses in an Engineering curriculum. The primary intent of the virtual labs is to provide in-lab experience to their users even when the physical lab infrastructure is not available. In this paper,...
Acquiring a Master Degree is becoming a common practice to ensure successful life and good career path, especially in developing countries. Master Degree in Information Technology is one of the most popular programmes with prolific number of applications and students. This work has two main objectives. First is to discover the number of clusters of applicants and the characteristics of each cluster...
Empirical findings have shown that Innovation is the main driving factor in the economic growth in all the industries and Information Technology in particular at present scenario. So in this era of competition Innovation gives an edge to a company over the others and it becomes its sole survival factor. Despite all the interest and importance researchers still lack the fundamental understanding of...
PBL (Problem Based Learning) has been used for teaching in number of courses for a long time. The objective of this learning method is to encourage the students to study from reality problem. The problem that often occurred during the PBL process was a failure of the project. In this paper, we tried to use an agile method that is a successful technique by using in a software development process in...
Attending and organizing conferences are important activities in the academic career of researchers. The primary purpose of attending conferences is to interact, communicate and collaborate with other research counterparts. In order to solve the problem of limited time and location for face-to-face interaction, communication and collaboration in conferences; we propose the design of a cloud-based...
We live in age of knowledge and huge information technology, which lead to an ongoing debate about the role that information technology can play for knowledge management. On the one hand, information technology is used in organizations, and thus qualifies as a natural medium for the flow of knowledge to achieve their goals. At the other end of the spectrum, leading knowledge management theorists have...
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