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4th Generation Apple IPod Nano

When Apple introduced the 4th generation of the IPod Nano it announced exciting new features and a return of an old favourite.

The latest Nano 4G left the shorter , wider chunkier looks of the 3G behind and made a return to the taller, slimmer version of earlier models in the IPod Nano family. However this Apple IPod is not just slim, but, manages to be the slimmest IPod that Apple has ever produced, but, do not think taller and slimmer means less screen size because the 4G matches the much shorter, wider “ fat” 3G Nano IPod in the screen size department. Apple has changed the orientation from the horizontal layout of earlier versions to a vertical orientation for this IPod, so as not lose size.

By adding an accelerometer  to their IPod Nano, Apple have made it possible to view video content (which favours a widescreen format) and landscape photographs horizontally, simply by rotating  your Nano by 90 degrees.

Proving that the old adage of less being more to be perfectly correct because the two versions of this IPod Nano can hold double the capacity of the earlier 3G versions. That amounts to 2000 songs in the 8G version and an astounding 4000 in its large, 16G sibling or if you are a photograph junkie, then 8,000 or 16,000 pictures, respectively.

Apple have expanded the colour options of this IPod Nano with the addition of  pink, orange, yellow and purple (3G Nano offered black, blue, silver, red and green), and not just more colours, but, the colours are more vibrant and should contain, practically everyone’s favourite colour.

Another exciting feature of the new Apple IPod Nano is shake to shuffle, which requires users to shake their Nano vigorously to cause the shuffle mode to activate, which causes your Nano to randomly select music from your library.

With new features that include the Spoken Word (enabled through iTunes), which allows visually impaired users the opportunity to have text (such as artists name or song title) converted into speech, thus, dispensing with the need to see the IPod screen, and the Genius feature, which organises a playlist of suitably like minded songs, by comparing the song you are currently listening to and comparing it with similar songs within your Nano IPod.

The 4th generation Apple IPod nano is an exciting new addition to the Apple IPod family and is available from Pyramid.com

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Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems $143.3 In its nine chapters, this book provides an overview of the stateoftheart and best practice in several subfields of evaluation of text and speech systems and components. The evaluation aspects covered include speech and speaker recognition, speech synthesis, animated talking agents, partofspeech tagging, parsing, and natural language software like machine translation, information retrieval, question answering, spoken dialogue systems, data resources, and annotation schemes. With its broad coverage and original contributions this book is unique in the field of evaluation of speech and language technology.This book is of particular relevance to advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, academic and industrial researchers, and practitioners. Author: Dybkjaer, Laila/ Hemsen, Holmer/ Minker, Wolfgang Series Title: Text, Speech and Language Technology Series Number: 37 Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 311 Publication Date: 2007/05/04 Language: English Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inches

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Text, Speech and Dialogue $164.52 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2007, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, in September 2007. The 80 revised full papers presented in this volume cover a wealth of stateoftheart research results in the field of natural language processing with an emphasis on text, speech, and spoken dialogue ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to applications in various fields. Author: Mautner, Pavel/ Matousek, Vaclav Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series Number: 4629 Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 663 Publication Date: 2007/10/03 Language: English Dimensions: 9.30 x 6.38 x 0.97 inches

Malay Text to Speech Synthesis System $132.24 Recently, human computer interaction system which involves speech recognition, synthesis etc. experiences tremendous growth, resulting in many applications being developed and commercialized. For instance, Microsoft recently launched the Microsoft Office that process the capability to pronounce (or read aloud)the input text using the speech synthesis engine. Indeed, speech synthesis is of important assisting human in various areas such as telephone speech, application in cars, public information systems, education assistance tools, email reading etc. Text to Speech (TTS) system is speech synthesis tools that capable of pronouncing any input raw texts aloud. This book covers the review of speech synthesis system and the design process for Malay Text to Speech System utilizing Festival Speech synthesis. It provides the detail of the database design process, system implementation, testing and evaluation. The target audience for this book would be those who has speech processing research background or those who are interested to know further about speech synthesis system. Author: Tan, Tian Swee/ Hussain, Sheikh/ Chea Lim, Yee Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 132 Publication Date: 2011/03/25 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.02 x 0.31 inches

Urdu Text to Speech System $106.74 Urdu is one of the most frequently spoken languages, in South Asia. As a status of being a National Language of Pakistan requires that research and development of Urdu language and Applications should be conducted at all levels of complexities. A good quality Speech Synthesis System (or TexttoSpeech System) has enormous applications in the fields of learning and education, interactive response systems, telecommunication, linguistics and perceptual research, and as an aid for visually impaired people. This application can be used for the educational purposes like; one can learn how to speak Urdu if he/she is familiar with the Urdu text but does not know how to articulate and pronounce that text. Author: Adnan, Muhammad/ Kamran Malik, Muhammad/ Ali, Aasim Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 68 Publication Date: 2011/09/13 Language: English Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.16 inches

John Stuart Mill on the Property of Married Women: Text of Speech in Commons $39.99 John Stuart Mill on the Property of Married Women: Text of Speech in Commons - Giclee Print

Techniques in Speech Acoustics $460.42 Techniques in Speech Acoustics provides an introduction to the acoustic analysis and characteristics of speech sounds. The first part of the book covers aspects of the sourcefilter decomposition of speech, spectrographic analysis, the acoustic theory of speech production and acoustic phonetic cues. The second part is based on computational techniques for analysing the acoustic speech signal including digital time and frequency analyses, formant synthesis, and the linear predictive coding of speech. There is also an introductory chapter on the classification of acoustic speech signals which is relevant to aspects of automatic speech and talker recognition. The book intended for use as teaching materials on undergraduate and postgraduate speech acoustics and experimental phonetics courses; also aimed at researchers from phonetics, linguistics, computer science, psychology and engineering who wish to gain an understanding of the basis of speech acoustics and its application to fields such as speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition. Author: Harrington, Jonathan/ Casaidy, Steve/ Harrington, J. Series Title: Text, Speech and Language Technology Series Number: 8 Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 336 Publication Date: 1999/07/31 Language: English Dimensions: 9.59 x 6.43 x 0.99 inches

Robustness in Language and Speech Technology $285.17 In this book we address robustness issues at the speech recognition and natural language parsing levels, with a focus on feature extraction and noise robust recognition, adaptive systems, language modeling, parsing, and natural language understanding. This book attempts to give a clear overview of the main technologies used in language and speech processing, along with an extensive bibliography to enable topics of interest to be pursued further. It also brings together speech and language technologies often considered separately. Robustness in Language and Speech Technology serves as a valuable reference and although not intended as a formal university textbook, contains some material that can be used for a course at the graduate or undergraduate level. Author: Van Noord, Gertjan/ Junqua, JeanClaude/ Noord, Gertjan Van Series Title: Text, Speech and Language Technology Series Number: 17 Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 2001/02/28 Language: English Dimensions: 9.90 x 6.40 x 0.86 inches

Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition $492.28 The domain of speech processing has come to the point where researchers and engineers are concerned with how speech technology can be applied to new products, and how this technology will transform our future. One important problem is to improve robustness of speech processing under adverse conditions, which is the subject of this book. Robust speech processing is a relatively new area which became a concern as technology started moving from laboratory to field applications. A method or an algorithm is robust if it can deal with a broad range of applications and adapt to unknown conditions. Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition addresses all of the fundamental problems and issues in the area. The book is divided into three parts. The first provides the background necessary for understanding the rest of the material. It also emphasizes the problems of speech production and perception in noise along with popular techniques used in speech analysis and automatic speech recognition. Part Two discusses the problems relevant to robustness in automatic speech recognition and speechbased applications. It emphasizes intra and interspeaker variability as well as automatic speech recognition of Lombard, noisy and channel distorted speech. Finally, the third part covers recent advances in the field of robust automatic speech recognition. Audience: An invaluable reference. May be used as a text for advanced courses on the subject. Author: Junqua, JeanClaude/ Haton, JeanPaul/ Wakita, Hisashi Series Title: International Series in Operations Research Management Science Series Number: 341 Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 476 Publication Date: 1995/10/31 Language: English Dimensions: 9.56 x 6.36 x 1.22 inches

Practical Speech Training $65.33 Originally published in the 1930s. An effective and scientific way of teaching the nuances of the English language. Contents Include: Good Speech Speech Training Phonetic Symbols Breathing Intonation Words Speech Games Sounds of English Special Difficulties etc. Many of the earliest teaching books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Author: Bennett, Rodney Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 160 Publication Date: 2008/11/04 Language: English Dimensions: 5.51 x 8.50 x 0.49 inches

Garmin GPS Marine with Text-to-Speech - 100046000 $179.99 The Fishfinder 140 combines a 4" (10.16 cm) grayscale display and Garmin's exclusive fishfinder technology into an entry-level sonar that's perfect for any vessel where space is at a premium. Most Electronics products are available for in-store pickup from Advance Auto Parts.

Festival Speech Synthesis System $70.1 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Festival is a general multilingual speech synthesis system originally developed at Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh. Substantial contributions have also been provided by Carnegie Mellon University and other sites. It is distributed under a free software license similar to the BSD License. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It is written in C++ with a Schemelike command interpreter for general customization and extension. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 92 Publication Date: 2010/09/02 Language: English Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.22 inches

Speech Synthesis Markup Language $93.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) is an XMLbased markup language for speech synthesis applications. It is a recommendation of the W3Cs voice browser working group. SSML is often embedded in VoiceXML scripts to drive interactive telephony systems. However, it also may be used alone, such as for creating audio books. For desktop applications, other markup languages are popular, including Apples embedded speech commands, and Microsofts SAPI Text to speech (TTS) markup, also an XML language. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Publication Date: 2010/09/19 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.30 inches

Wagan 2564 Bluetooth Text to Speech Car Kit $95.65 Texttospeech (TTS) technology Announces information TTS languanges in English Spanish French Italian and German Can be used as a handset in privacy mode Advanced builtin microphone with (DSP) echo cancellation and noise suppression Up to 10 hours talk time or 500 hours standby Compliant with Bluetooth v2.0 up to 33 Includes charger

Speech and HumanMachine Dialog $205.52 Speech and HumanMachine Dialog focuses on the dialog management component of a spoken language dialog system. Spoken language dialog systems provide a natural interface between humans and computers. These systems are of special interest for interactive applications, and they integrate several technologies including speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialog management and speech synthesis. Due to the conjunction of several factors throughout the past few years, humans are significantly changing their behavior vis vis machines. In particular, the use of speech technologies will become normal in the professional domain, and in everyday life. The performance of speech recognition components has also significantly improved. This book includes various examples that illustrate the different functionalities of the dialog model in a representative application for train travel information retrieval (train time tables, prices and ticket reservation). Speech and HumanMachine Dialog is designed for a professional audience, composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for graduatelevel students in computer science and engineering. Author: Minker, Wolfgang/ Bennacef, Samir Series Title: Kluwer International Series in Engineering Computer Science Series Number: 770 Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 104 Publication Date: 2004/05/25 Language: English Dimensions: 9.60 x 6.56 x 0.50 inches

Progress in Speech Synthesis $315.45 For a machine to convert text into sounds that humans can understand as speech requires an enormous range of components, from abstract analysis of discourse structure to synthesis and modulation of the acoustic output. Work in the field is thus inherently interdisciplinary, involving linguistics, computer science, acoustics, and psychology. This collection of articles by leading researchers in each of the fields involved in texttospeech synthesis provides a picture of recent work in laboratories throughout the world and of the problems and challenges that remain. By providing samples of synthesized speech as well as video demonstrations for several of the synthesizers discussed, the book will also allow the reader to judge what all the work adds up to that is, how good is the synthetic speech we can now produce? Topics covered include: Signal processing and source modeling Linguistic analysis Articulatory synthesis and visual speech Concatenative synthesis and automated segmentation Prosodic analysis of natural speech Synthesis of prosody Evaluation and perception Systems and applications The CDROM included with the book is configured to work with Macintosh(R), UNIX, and Windows(R) operating systems; it contains the full text of the book as well as the samples and demonstrations. Author: Van Santen, Jan P./ Olive, J./ Hirschberg, J. Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 620 Publication Date: 1996/12/20 Language: English Dimensions: 9.46 x 6.30 x 1.36 inches

DataDriven Techniques in Speech Synthesis $476.35 This first review of a new field covers all areas of speech synthesis from text, ranging from text analysis to lettertosound conversion. At the leading edge of current research, the concise and accessible book is written by well respected experts in the field. Author: Damper, R. I./ Sharrock, S./ Damper, R. I. Series Title: Telecommunications Technology and Applications Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 336 Publication Date: 2001/10/31 Language: English Dimensions: 9.94 x 6.40 x 0.94 inches

iZotope Music & Speech Cleaner's $39.99 Clarify lectures, concerts, prodcasts and sermons: Removing the hum and buzz from air conditioners or amps. Save the cleaned audio as new files for increased intelligibility. Repair audio from videos recorded on your camcorder, cell phone or camera: Remove unwanted background noise in home movies which results from recording in public areas. Share these movies on YouTube, confident with your professional-sounding audio. Restore an LP or cassette collection: Remove clicks, pops, and hiss from vinyl or tape recordings. Use Music & Speech Cleaner to separate the file into multiple tracks and then load them onto your iPod. Operating System: Windows XP/Vista (x64) Experience increased impact and clarity with clean audio by easily removing unwanted noise and enhancing your recordings. iZotope Music & Speech Cleaner gives you all the tools of a complete audio cleanup suite with straight forward accessibility. Music & Speech Cleaner's intuitive step-by-step interface guides you through the cleanup process without slowing you down. Based on the same advanced noise reduction technology the experts use, the program provides professional-quality results at a non-expert price. Music & Speech Cleaner works with a range of compatible file types, meaning it works with your favorite software, like Apple iMovie or Adobe Premiere Elements. Cleaned files can also be imported into iTunes to create MP3 or AAC files and then burned to an audio CD. Complete Product Home & Lifestyle IZ11095 Music & Speech Cleaner's Music Editing/Composing Not Applicable PC Software Windows iZotope iZotope, Inc www.izotope.com

DecalGirl IPTLOVETEXT iPod Touch Skin Love Text $24.96 Since 2003 DecalGirl has been manufacturing fullcolor removable vinyl skins for laptops cell phones game consoles iPods and other devices. DecalGirl was the first on the skin scene With thousands of designs to choose from on hundreds of devices we have a skin for you All skins are manufactured right in our Milton Delaware facility. DecalGirl IPTLOVETEXT iPod Touch Skin Love Text

Multimodality in Language and Speech Systems $301.11 This book covers the topic of multimodality from a large number of different perspectives and provides the advanced student/researcher with a current survey of theories of multimodal communication between people as well as reviewing many aspects of multimodal input/output in technical systems. Chapters dealing with humanhuman multimodal communication include speechgesture systems, semiotics of gesture, structure and functions of facetoface communication, emotional relations and intercultural variation, and humanhuman communication which is mediated by computer for the handicapped. Chapters dealing with humanmachine communication and interfaces cover the technology and science of creating talking faces, technology and methods for the development of animated interface agents in intelligent multimedia systems, and the integration of multimodal input and output in the computer interface. The book also covers computer processing and understanding of signal and symbol input from speech, text, and visual images. Author: Karlsson, Inger/ Granstrom, Bjorn/ House, David Series Title: Text, Speech and Language Technology Series Number: 19 Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 260 Publication Date: 2002/06/30 Language: English Dimensions: 9.79 x 6.59 x 0.66 inches

Speech for the Stage (2nd Edition, Revised) $49.86 From its original publication, thousands of actors have used this classic text to develop and refine their voice and speech. Evangeline Machlin includes warmup routines for the voice but initially focuses on the importance of listening. She also discusses such important elements as relaxation, phonetics, articulation, resonance, pitch, rate of speech and stress. In addition, there are chapters on dialects, on reading aloud, sight reading, auditioning and performance. Author: Machlin, Evangeline/ Machlin Evangel Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Publication Date: 1992/06/25 Age Level: 18 18 Language: English Dimensions: 8.98 x 6.04 x 0.60 inches

Image Models (and Their Speech Model Cousins) $205.52 This volume explores the interface between two diverse areas of applied mathematics which are both customers of the maximum likelihood methodology; emission tomography and hidden Markov models as an approach to speech understanding. Other areas where maximum likelihood is used in this volume include parsing of text (Jelinek), microstructure of materials (Ji), DNA sequencing (Nelson). Most of the participants were in the main areas of speech or emission density reconstruction. Author: Levinson, Stephen/ Shepp, Larry/ Levinson, Stephen E. Series Title: IMA Volumes in Mathematics and Its Applications Series Number: 80 Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 208 Publication Date: 1996/08/29 Language: English Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 inches

Embedded Architectures for Speech and Machine Learning $122.67 In recent years, research and development in the field of natural interface technologies and machine learning techniques have gained paramount importance. Text to Speech (TTS) conversion and Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) form a key part of such interface technologies. On the other hand, the future generation of intelligent computing devices will obviously require applications like machine learning based classifiers to perform classification tasks in a variety of fields ranging from data mining to recognition tasks in image and video. However, the realtime performance of such applications in handheld platforms have not been explored till date. The present work takes into consideration some representative applications from these domains, evaluates their performance on embedded processor architectures and performs modifications in the underlying hardware platform for real time performance improvement of the concerned applications. The book can be used as supplementary text for advanced courses in embedded systems for demonstrating practical examples of key techniques like workload characterization, hardwaresoftware codesign, custom instruction synthesis etc. Author: Dey, Soumyajit/ Basu, Anupam Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Publication Date: 2010/09/19 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.30 inches

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Woodbine House 9780974807140 Discovery Pathways to Better Speech $39.74 For children with Down syndrome it is essential to lay the foundation for speech development as early as possible. To achieve the best possible results the latest research shows that an integrated approach to speech development is most effective including the combined use of spoken words with sign language and text paying attention to hearing loss and addressing intelligibility issues. Now parents who are looking for information and guidance on their child s speech development have a new resource to rely on. This invaluable resource offers practical advice examples and expertise for parents and professionals to follow as they help children with Down syndrome from infancy to age seven become the best talkers they can be. The DVD covers the what when and how of speech development including: Communication Milestones; Hearing Issues; Encouraging Speech; Making Speech Understandable (Intelligibility) When Talking Begins; Building Vocabulary and Grammar; and Connection Between Reading and Speech. An international group of experts on speech development and Down syndrome appear on the DVD including Dr. Libby Kumin Professor Sue Buckley of the Down Syndrome Educational Trust and physicians Sally Shott and Siegfried Pueschel. These and other experts discuss their methods and explain how to put them into practice. Additionally the DVD features knowledgeable parents who comment on what techniques and approaches have worked best for their children. And children with Down syndrome also appear throughout the DVD demonstrating the range of achievement that parents can expect. Approximate running time of this DVD is 81 minutes. DVDROM: 1 pages. Publisher: Woodbine House; DVD edition (January 31 2005). Language: English. Age Range: 15+ years. Dimensions: 19.15cm x 13.16cm x 1.47cm.

Image and Text Compression $348.89 This book presents exciting recent research on the compression of images and text. Part 1 presents the (lossy) image compression techniques of vector quantization, iterated transforms (fractal compression), and techniques that employ optical hardware. Part 2 presents the (lossless) text compression techniques of arithmetic coding, context modeling, and dictionary methods (LZ methods); this part of the book also addresses practical massively parallel architectures for text compression. Part 3 presents theoretical work in coding theory that has applications to both text and image compression. The book ends with an extensive bibliography of data compression papers and books which can serve as a valuable aid to researchers in the field. Points of Interest: Data compression is becoming a key factor in the digital storage of text, speech graphics, images, and video, digital communications, data bases, and supercomputing. The book addresses hot data compression topics such as vector quantization, fractal compression, optical data compression hardware, massively parallel hardware, LZ methods, arithmetic coding. Contributors are all accomplished researchers. Extensive bibliography to aid researchers in the field. Author: Storer, James A./ Storer, James A. Series Title: Robotics Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 368 Publication Date: 1992/06/30 Language: English Dimensions: 9.50 x 6.44 x 1.04 inches

Phonetics for Speech Pathology By Ball, Martin J. $105.98 This introductory text for speech pathology and therapy students examines normative phonetic aspects and also discusses how these may go wrong and what happens when they do. Correct use of phonetic symbolizations and the importance of adequate transcription in the clinic are stressed. Author: Ball, Martin J. Publication Date: 1993/10/01 Number of Pages: 314 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 1.00 Width: 6.25 Height: 9.50