Sunday, February 19, 2012

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Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, Chief Minister, gave a clarion call to the youth to bring about transformation in the universal society through responsive, responsible and democratic government with full accountability for its actions and an equitable economic management, central to which is the fight against corruption. He was inaugurating two-day long 6th International Seminar on ?Role of Youth in Social Transformation? organized by World Organisation of Students and Youth (WOSY), here today.

Chief Minister said that in Western developed countries, there was a huge mobilization against the privatisation while European countries had to go for massive European Union bailouts. He said that unemployment was a global problem which was getting compounded by increasing austerity measures by the governments and the message was not lost on the decision makers. He said that the World Economic Forum which met in Davos recently devoted lots of its attention as to how to check capitalism. He said that it had been a common view of all social thinkers that the capitalism needs to become more inclusive and balanced and less prone to recurrent meltdowns. He criticized the system under which corporates were being given bailouts through tax cuts and other concessions without thinking of the welfare of common man and weaker sections of the society. He said that in many of the under developed countries healthcare continued to be an expensive privilege and for much of the toiling world it had simply no access. He said that there was world-wide grouse against tax havens, corruption and nepotistic leaders.

Prof. Dhumal cited the example of Africa, where a new nation, South Sudan, was born amidst much atrocities and genocide. He said that birth of South Sudan and continuous deprivations of the common man show how societies rupture when governments and states fail in delivering the goods to its masses. He said that although Africa happened to be a resource rich continent made up of 26 countries, a burgeoning middle class in the continent was attracting world attention. Factually many international relations experts opined that Africa was emerging a new Asia. He added that if Africa?s natural resources and wealth were to benefit the common people, the youth had to understand their historic responsibility. He said that with the globalization and universalization the entire world had turned into a global village and the youth had to come forward to transform the social system world over. He said that

youth had vast potential of energy which had to be channelized towards constructive and positive activities so that a strong nation was built.

Chief Minister lauded the theme of the Seminar ?Role of Youth in Social Transformation? and said that it was evident that the youth was catalyzing change the world over and Middle East was seeing its moment of catharsis as the youth had taken to the streets demanding freedom and responsible governance. He lauded the contribution of WOSY for organizing youth to demonstrate unity to bring about harmony amongst all sections of the society the world over and for preparing youth to assume leadership roles in thinking about the problems respective countries were facing. He welcomed delegates from about 30 nations participating in the Seminar to Himachal Pradesh and wished them a fruitful Seminar and memorable stay in Shimla.

Dr. Rashmi Singh, Chairperson, WOSY, welcomed the Chief Minister, and detailed the itinerary of the two-day International Seminar which would be focused upon channelization of the energy to transform the society and fight against corruption.

Shri Sunil Ambedkar, National Organising Secretary, said that WOSY had adopted the ?Vasudev Kutumbkam? (World is a Family) as its theme of training youth to lead the world in different capacities in coming years.

Shri Aniket Kale, Secretary General, WOSY, Shri Rohit Sharma, Convenor, State ABVP, Shri Kenneth Kiyaga and Sanjeev Ningombam, International Secretaries also addressed wile Shri Ashmat Muradi, International Secretary proposed vote of thanks.

Shri Narender Bragta, Horticulture and Technical Education Minister, Shri Suresh Bhardwaj, MLA, Smt. Veena Thakur, Chairperson, State Social Welfare Board, Shri Ganesh Datt, Vice Chairman, HIMUDA, Shri R.K.Bawa, Chairman, Reception Committee, Shri Umesh Datt, National General Secretary and other office bearers of WOSY were present on the occasion.

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Saturday, February 18, 2012

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Norwegian success in creating an artificial child's voice

ScienceDaily (Feb. 17, 2012) ? "Synthesised speech has grown more and more similar to human speech. Yet children communicating via a speech device are still forced to use a synthetic adult voice," explains Magne Lunde, Managing Director of Media LT, a company developing tools to assist disabled persons.

This drawback was the driver behind a collaborative research project involving MedialT and Lingit, a software company. Together they are developing Norway's first synthesised childlike voice.

Using funding granted under the Research Council programme ICT for the disabled (IT Funk), they are putting an entirely new method to the test.

Converting the master voice into a comprehensible child's voice

"We start with what is known as a master voice, which is the product of three or four adult speakers recording several thousands of phrases. Then we record a single child reading a smaller number of phrases aloud. We use this recording to modify the master voice, making it sound like a child's voice," relates Torbj?rn Nordg?rd from Lingit. Dr Nordg?rd is also a professor of linguistics at the University of Nordland.

The phrases recorded by the child have been selected to include a number of the most essential sounds found in Norwegian.

"The master voice still carries the intonation, i.e. a phrase's melody. The result sounds rather like a child with unusual elocution skills, but it's still much better than the voice of an adult," says Mr Nordg?rd.

Very little research has been carried out on this subject internationally. MediaLT and Linget's innovative method of synthesising a child's voice is bringing them to the forefront of their field.

Everything is now in place to start testing trial versions of the child's voice. "We hope to have a beta version in place this summer," says Magne Lunde.

PC's need to understand children's speech

Mr Lunde and his colleagues are also researching voice control such as use of verbal commands to operate a PC.

In order to operate a computer by means of speech, the machine must successfully decipher what is being said. Interpreting the speech of individuals on both the young and the older end of the scale is especially challenging since the distance from their vocal cords to their lips is shorter than that of the average adult.

"Teaching a speech recognition program to understand the pronunciation of the various sounds of a language requires a relatively large amount of recorded speech. Unfortunately, insufficient data exist today in terms of actual children's speech," states Professor Torbj?rn Svendsen from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Professor Svendsen and his research partners have come up with a very elegant, yet simple method of overcoming the challenges associated with speech recognition and children -- they have synthesised children's voices and used the results to compile a collection of data.

A vast improvement in quality

The length of the vocal tract affects the frequency distribution of the speech energy. The researchers are using technology to render the energy distribution of adult speech so that it more closely resembles that of a child.

"The converted adult speech resembles the way children speak in terms of sound as well. Thus, we could apply our conversion technique to a large database of adult speech and generate a functional database of artificial childlike voices. We then used this to train a separate speech recognition program for children," explains Professor Svendsen.

"This greatly improved the recognition fidelity of children's speech. The error rate was reduced by 50 to 70 per cent," he states.

Activities are being carried out in cooperation with the researchers in the Voice control in multimodal dialogue (SMUDI) project, which received funding from the Research Council's Large-scale programme Core Competence and Value Creation in ICT (VERDIKT) and the Ministry of Education and Research.

Norwegian a tough language

The Norwegian language poses a number of especially steep challenges to speech recognition experts.

"In general, the degree of variation in any language is large enough to make it difficult to model. But Norwegian is especially tricky; there are two distinct written forms of the language, countless dialects and a wide range of accepted alternatives for words, declensions and compounds. On top of all this, there is no single pronunciation standard," stresses Torbj?rn Svendsen.

Dr Svendsen also points out that people can experience considerable difficulty when faced with voice-controlled devices.

"It is easy to get caught up in our fascination with speech recognition and the many possibilities it holds, so it's important not to replace existing technology when it remains the best option for getting something done -- like using buttons to operate a lift," he concludes.

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Thursday, February 16, 2012

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Dude, I'd like to join this if that's okay. Seems awesome and is there a character skeleton?
Also, what is a mercenary?

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OK, so what level of tech are we talking about? You stated some thing about giant robots But what else? Also can people be near super human with out tech?

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I'm definitely gonna make a street urchin. Oh, and Choco, a mercenary is someone who goes around helping anyone that pays them.

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Umm, can we start from Street Urchin/Cop and work our way into the rebel gangs in the course of the RP? Or do we have to remain what we initially chose?

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