Medieval intrigue : decoding royal conspiracies / / Ian Mortimer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785392403321
• Autore: Mortimer Ian <1967->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Continuum, , 2010; ©2010
• ISBN: 1-282-82191-1; 9786612821912; 1-4411-4858-2; 1-4411-6049-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (394 p.)
• Disciplina: 942.036092
• Soggetti: Great Britain History Plantagenets, 1154-1399; Great Britain Politics and government 1154-1399; Great Britain Kings and rulers Succession History To 1500; Great Britain History Plantagenets, 1154-1399 Historiography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-357) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Objectivity and information: a methodological introduction; 2 Sermons of sodomy: a reconsideration of Edward II's sodomitical reputation; 3 The death of Edward II in Berkeley Castle; 4 Twelve angry scholars: reactions to 'The death of Edward II'; 5 The plot of the earl of Kent, 1328-30; 6 Edward III, his father and the Fieschi; 7 Edward III and the moneylenders; 8 Richard II and the succession to the Crown; 9 The rules governing succession to the Crown, 1199-1399; 10 Regnal legitimacy and the concept of the royal pretender; 11 Concluding remarksFull titles of works cited in the notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this important new work Ian Mortimer examines some of the most controversial questions in medieval history, including whether Edward II was murdered, his possible later life in Italy, the weakness of the Lancastrian claim to the throne in 1399 and the origins of the idea of the royal pretender. Central to this book is his ground-breaking approach to medieval evidence. He explains how an information-based ; method allows a more certain reading of a series of texts. He criticises existing modes of arriving at consensus and outlines a process of historical analysis that ultimately leads to quest

Developments in speech synthesis / / Mark Tatham, Katherine Morton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910830297103321
• Autore: Tatham Mark
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, West Sussex, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ : , : J. Wiley, , c2005
• ISBN: 1-280-24170-5; 9786610241705; 0-470-01260-9; 0-470-01259-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource [358 pages]
• Disciplina: 006.54
• Soggetti: Speech processing systems
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-334) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: DEVELOPMENTS IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; How Good is Synthetic Speech?; Improvements Beyond Intelligibility; Continuous Adaptation; Data Structure Characterisation; Shared Input Properties; Intelligibility: Some Beliefs and Some Myths; Naturalness; Variability; The Introduction of Style; Expressive Content; Final Introductory Remarks; Part I Current Work; 1 High-Level and Low-Level Synthesis; 1.1 Differentiating Between Low-Level and High-Level Synthesis; 1.2 Two Types of Text; 1.3 The Context of High-Level Synthesis; 1.4 Textual Rendering; 2 Low-Level Synthesisers: Current Status2.1 The Range of Low-Level Synthesisers Available; 2.1.1 Articulatory Synthesis; 2.1.2 Formant Synthesis; 2.1.3 Concatenative Synthesis; Units for Concatenative Synthesis; Representation of Speech in the Database; Unit Selection Systems: the Data-Driven Approach; Unit Joining; Cost Evaluation in Unit Selection Systems; Prosody and Concatenative Systems; Prosody Implementation in Unit Concatenation Systems; 2.1.4 Hybrid System Approaches to Speech Synthesis; 3 Text-; To-Speech; 3.1 Methods; 3.2 The Syntactic Parse; 4 Different Low-Level Synthesisers: What Can Be Expected?4.1 The Competing Types; 4.2 The Theoretical Limits; 4.3 Upcoming Approaches; 5 Low-Level Synthesis Potential; 5.1 The Input to Low-Level Synthesis; 5.2 Text Marking; 5.2.1 Unmarked Text; 5.2.2 Marked Text: the Basics; 5.2.3 Waveforms and Segment Boundaries; 5.2.4 Marking Boundaries on Waveforms: the Alignment Problem; 5.2.5 Labelling the Database: Segments; 5.2.6 Labelling the Database: Endpointing and Alignment; Part II A New Direction for Speech Synthesis; 6 A View of Naturalness; 6.1 The Naturalness Concept; 6.2 Switchable Databases for Concatenative Synthesis6.3 Prosodic Modifications; 7 Physical Parameters and Abstract Information Channels; 7.1 Limitations in the Theory and Scope of Speech Synthesis; 7.1.1 Distinguishing Between Physical and Cognitive Processes; 7.1.2 Relationship Between Physical and Cognitive Objects; 7.1.3 Implications; 7.2 Intonation Contours from the Original Database; 7.3 Boundaries in Intonation; 8 Variability and System Integrity; 8.1 Accent Variation; 8.2 Voicing; 8.3 The Festival System; 8.4 Syllable Duration; 8.5 Changes of Approach in Speech Synthesis; 9 Automatic Speech Recognition9.1 Advantages of the Statistical Approach; 9.2 Disadvantages of the Statistical Approach; 9.3 Unit Selection Synthesis Compared with Automatic Speech Recognition; Part III High-Level Control; 10 The Need for High-Level Control; 10.1 What is High-Level Control?; 10.2 Generalisation in Linguistics; 10.3 Units in the Signal; 10.4 Achievements of a Separate High-Level Control; 10.5 Advantages of Identifying High-Level Control; 11 The Input to High-Level Control; 11.1 Segmental Linguistic Input; 11.2 The Underlying Linguistics Model; 11.3 Prosody; 11.4 Expression; 12 Problems for Automatic Text Markup
• Sommario/riassunto: With a growing need for understanding the process involved in producing and perceiving spoken language, this timely publication answers these questions in an accessible reference. Containing material resulting from many years' teaching and research, Speech Synthesis provides a complete account of the theory of speech. By bringing together the common goals and methods of speech synthesis into a single resource, the book will lead the way towards a comprehensive view of the process involved in human speech. The book includes applications in speech technology and speech synthesis.