1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785685603321

Autore

Wall John <1965->

Titolo

Ethics in light of childhood [[electronic resource] /] / John Wall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-58901-624-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Disciplina

170.83

Soggetti

Ethics

Children

Moral development

Child welfare - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Three enduring models -- What is human being? -- What is the ethical aim? -- What is owed each other? -- Human rights in light of childhood -- The generative family -- The art of ethical thinking.

Sommario/riassunto

Childhood faces humanity with its own deepest and most perplexing questions. An ethics that truly includes the world's childhoods would transcend pre-modern traditional communities and modern rational autonomy with a postmodern aim of growing responsib



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254327703321

Autore

Hinterleitner Florian

Titolo

Quality of Synthetic Speech : Perceptual Dimensions, Influencing Factors, and Instrumental Assessment / / by Florian Hinterleitner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

981-10-3734-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 157 p. 29 illus.)

Collana

T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services, , 2192-2810

Disciplina

006.54

Soggetti

Signal processing

Image processing

Speech processing systems

User interfaces (Computer systems)

Signal, Image and Speech Processing

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Speech Synthesis -- Auditory and Instrumental Quality Evaluation Metrics -- Perceptual Quality Dimensions -- Influencing Factors on Perceptual Quality -- Instrumental Quality Assessment -- Requirements for the Integration of an Instrumental Quality Measure into a Concatenative TTS System -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book reviews research towards perceptual quality dimensions of synthetic speech, compares these findings with the state of the art, and derives a set of five universal perceptual quality dimensions for TTS signals. They are: (i) naturalness of voice, (ii) prosodic quality, (iii) fluency and intelligibility, (iv) absence of disturbances, and (v) calmness. Moreover, a test protocol for the efficient indentification of those dimensions in a listening test is introduced. Furthermore, several factors influencing these dimensions are examined. In addition, different techniques for the instrumental quality assessment of TTS signals are introduced, reviewed and tested. Finally, the requirements for the integration of an instrumental quality measure into a concatenative TTS system are examined.