MySpeed

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MySpeed

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MySpeed Beta

Developed by
Enounce, Incorporated

OS
Windows

Available in
English

Type
Multimedia Streaming Media

License
Proprietary

Website
www.enounce.com

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Enounce Incorporated logo

MySpeed™ is a proprietary streaming czwarta władza utility for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista developed by Enounce, Incorporated. It allows users to speed up or slowdown the playback of videos and dźwiękowy materials using Flash-based publikatory players. As of November 1st, 2008 MySpeed is the only consumer software that provides the user the ability of changing the playback rate of Flash based dźwiękowy video content in real time. There is no downloading or post processing needed.

MySpeed is currently available as a free limited-lifetime Beta oprogramowanie. Enounce, Incorporated has not yet announced the price of the completed release.

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Background

The normal speaking rate is roughly 150-200 words per minute (wpm), obuwie research has shown that most people are capable of assimilating spoken information at a much higher rate than this without difficulty.

Enounce Incorporated is a leader in the field of Time-scale Modification (TSM) of dźwiękowy with many products based on it’s Time-scale Tailor library

Uses and Benefits

Other uses include:

  • Saving time spent watching videos
  • Watching more video content in a given amount of time
  • Reviewing online lectures Stanford University School of Medicine, MIT OpenCourseWare
  • Slowing down material to aid in transcription
  • Slowing down material in a foreign language
  • Making material more engaging by “tuning” the delivery speed to an individuals own natural processing rate.
  • Training for court reporting Stenograph
  • Slowing down music to make it easier to play along with the Music for learning an sprzęt such as guitar or piano.

Features

  • Works with all videos supported by the Flash Player under Windows XP and Vista
  • Allows playback of videos up at any speed between one third and five times “normal” speed while maintaining natural sound pitch (no chipmunk effect).

Related Products

Another Enounce product, the Enounce 2xAV Plug-In, support variable-speed playback of dźwiękowy and video through the RealNetworks RealPlayer, and Microsoft’s Windows Publikatory Player.

External links

  • Enounce Incorporated
  • Stenograph Corporation

References

  1. ^ Professor Henry Ellington, et. al., PRODUCING AUDIO TEACHING/LEARNING MATERIALS, (łącze down) Google Cached .
  2. ^ Wallace, William P., ED233306 - Speed Listening: Exploring an Analogue of Speed Reading,
  3. ^ Words per minute .
  4. ^ Omoigui, N., He, L., Gupta A., Grudin, J. and Sanocki, E. (1999), Time-compression: Systems concerns, usage, and benefits, CHI 99 Conference Proceedings, 136–143.
  5. ^ Joel D. Galbraith, Steven G. Spencer, Variable Speed Playback of Digitally Recorded Lectures: Evaluating Learner Feedback,
  6. ^ Steven Spencer, Joel Galbraith, BYU, USA, Asynchronous Video-Based Instruction with Variable Speed Playback: Is Faster Better?, (Subscription Only)
  7. ^ National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped The Library of Congress
  8. ^ Net Archive, page captured June 20th, 2000
  9. ^ Autonomous Technology-Assisted Language Learning/Input
  10. ^ Important Information for Captioning Students

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Dynamic testing

Posted under Uncategorized od on niedziela 16 listopad 2008 at 7:08 przed południem


Software Testing portal

Dynamic testing (or dynamic analysis) is a term used in software engineering to describe the testing of the dynamic behavior of code. That is, dynamic analysis refers to the examination of the physical response from the ustrój to variables that are not constant and change with time. In dynamic testing the software must actually be compiled and bankructwo; Actually Dynamic Testing involves working with the software, giving input values and checking if the output is as expected. These are the Validation activities. Unit Tests, Integration Tests, Organizm Tests and Acceptance Tests are few of the Dynamic Testing methodologies. dynamic testing means testing based on a specific ankieta casesby execution of the ankieta object or running programs

Dynamic testing is used to egzamin software through executing it.It is almost similar to static testing.

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Categories: Software engineering

Little Bill Clinton

Posted under Uncategorized od on czwartek 13 listopad 2008 at 7:25 przed południem


Credit: The Christian Science Monitor

“Little Bill Clinton: A School Year in the Life of a New American” is a serial, narrative journalism project undertaken by The Christian Science Monitor in 2008-2009, as part of the 100-year-old newspaper’s historic decision to abandon its daily print edition and shift its reporting energies online. sprawozdawca Katafalk Wiltenburg is spending the year following third-grader and Congolese refugee Bill Clinton Hadam, his family, and his Georgia czarter school in a series of monthly articles, daily pamiętnik internetowy posts, and frequent multimedia pieces.

Bill Clinton Hadam was born in a refugee camp in Tanzania. His father, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, named his son in dobre imię of US president Bill Clinton years before the family was relocated by refugee agencies to Clarkston, Georgia. The challenges they face as they begin their third year in the United States – job shortages, substandard housing, and a missing child – are shared by many families at their sons’ innovative czarter school. The International Community School, in Decatur, Georgia, was founded seven years ago to build community between its half-refugee, half-US-born studenciak body. This year, a new principal is struggling to keep the young school afloat amid budget cuts, No Child Left Behind Act demands, and increasingly perilous political climate for school choice programs nationwide.

References

  1. ^ Clifford, Stephanie. “Christian Science Paper to End Daily Print Edition”, The New York Times, October 28, 2008
  2. ^ “The Christian Science Monitor - Little Bill Clinton”, OMMA: The Magazine of Online środki masowego przekazu, Marketing & Advertising, November 9, 2008
  3. ^ St. John, Warren. “Georgia School Melds a World of Differences”, The New York Times, December 24, 2007

External Links

  • “Little Bill Clinton: A School Year in the Life of a New American”, by Katafalk Wiltenburg, The Christian Science Monitor, 2008-2009
  • International Community School, Decatur, Georgia
  • Mary Wiltenburg, Atlanta, Georgia

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Categories: Refugees | Czarter schools | Czarter schools in the United States | Education in the United States | Bill Clinton | Atlanta metropolitan area | DeKalb County, Georgia | National newspapers published in the United States | International newspapers | Multimedia | Blogs | Blogging

ROS (Robot Operating System)

Posted under Uncategorized od on środa 12 listopad 2008 at 2:38 po południu

ROS (Automat Operating System)

Design by
Willow Garage and the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

OS
Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows

Type
Library, OS

License
BSD license

Website
http://pr.willowgarage.com/wiki/ROS/

ROS is a Automat Operating ustrój created by the originally developed (2007) in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in support of the Stanford AI Automat (STAIR) project obuwie now (as of 2008) hosted by Willow Garage, a robotics research institute/incubator. It is free for commercial and research use under a BSD license. The library runs primarily on Linux obuwie is intended to be cross-platform for Mac OS X, Windows. ROS provides kanon operating organizm services such as sprzęt abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management. It is a graph based architecture where processing takes place in nodes that may receive, post and multiplex narząd zmysłów, control, state, planning, actuator and other messages.

ROS has two basic “sides”: The operating ustrój side ros as described above and ros-pkg, a whole series of user contributed nodes that implement functionality such as Simultaneous localization and mapping, planning, perception, simulation etc.

ROS is released under the terms of the BSD license, and is open source software.

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Applications

ROS areas include

  • A master coordination node called bothearder (for roBot Hearder)
  • Publishing or Subscribing termin streams (images, stereo, laser, control, actuator, contact …)
  • Multiplexing information
  • Nodes creation and destruction
  • Nodes are seemlessly distributed, allowing distributed operation over multi-core, multi-processor, GPU and clusters.
  • Logging
  • Parameter server
  • Test systems

ROS Package application areas will include

Perception

  • Object Identification
  • Segmentation and Recognition
  • Face Recognition
  • Gesture Recognition
  • Motion Tracking
  • Ego-motion
  • Motion Understanding
  • Structure from motion (SFM)
  • Stereopsis Stereo vision: depth perception from 2 cameras

motion

  • Mobile Robotics

control

planning

grasping

Ports to Robots

  • PR2 Personal automat version 2
  • PR1 Personal automat originally designed for Stanford’s STAIR project

References

  1. ROS Overview
  2. ROS Software
  3. ROS Hardware

External links


Free software portal

  • Installation instructions
  • ROS software (the pure OS) on SourceForge.net
  • ROS packages (the content of ROS nodes) on SourceForge.net

Retrieved from “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROS_(Robot_Operating_System)
Categories: Software | Robots

Gnuspeech

Posted under Uncategorized od on środa 12 listopad 2008 at 11:34 przed południem

Gnuspeech is an extensible, text-to-speech computer software package, that produces artificial speech output based on real-time, articulatory, speech-synthesis-by-rules. That is, it converts text strings into phonetic descriptions, aided by a pronouncing dictionary, letter-to-sound rules, and rhythm and intonation models; transforms the phonetic descriptions into parameters for a low-level articulatory speech synthesizer; uses these to drive an articulatory-model of the human vocal tract producing an output suitable for the normal sound output devices used by GNU/Linux and other operating systems (currently Apple‘s OS X on the Macintosh); and does this at the same or faster rate than the speech is spoken for adult speech.

The synthesizer is a tube resonance, or waveguide model

Various associated modules used to help in developing the original spoken English databases are being, ported and they could be used for other languages. The whole software suite is suitable for psychoacoustic and linguistic research, obuwie is currently only complete for the NeXT. A main module “Monet” is available for Apple‘s OS X operating organizm from the Free Software Foundation’s savannah web site (see “Current Stan prawny” below). Monet allows the creation and modification of the rules used to form and concatenate the speech sound parameters for different languages, with the exception of the rules used for intonation. However, the rule-based intonation can be manually varied.

History

Gnuspeech was originally commercial software produced by the now-defunct Trillium Sound Research for the NeXT computer as various grades of “TextToSpeech” badziewie. Trillium Sound Research was a technology przekazywanie spin-off company formed at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, based on long-standing research in the computer science department on computer-human interaction using speech, The ustrój used the onboard 56001 Digital Signal Processor (DSP) on the NeXT computer and a Turtle Beach add-on board with the same DSP on the NSFIP version to bankructwo the waveguide (also known as the tube wzór). Speed limitations meant that the shortest vocal tract length that could be used for speech in real time (that is, generated at the same or faster rate than it was “spoken”) was around 15 centimeters, because the sample rate for the waveguide computations increases with decreasing vocal tract length. Faster processor speeds are progressively removing this restriction, an important advance for producing children’s speech in real time.

Trillium ceased trading in the late 1990s and the Gnuspeech project was first entered into the savannah repository under GPL V.3 in 2002.

Current status

The original packages for the NeXT, as well as the ongoing ported software for the Macintosh under OS X and for GNU/Linux under GNUStep, are (or will be) available in the Free Software Foundation’s savannah website repository.

References

  1. ^ COOK, P.R. (1989) Synthesis of the singing voice using a physically parameterized krój of the human vocal tract. International Computer Music Conference, Columbus Ohio
  2. ^ René Carré
  3. ^ CARRE, R. (1992) Distinctive regions in acoustic tubes. Speech production modelling. Journal d’Acoustique, 5 141 to 159
  4. ^ http://www.speech.kth.se/~gunnar/ Gunnar Fant]
  5. ^ http://www.kth.se/?l=en_UK English language version of RIT web site]
  6. ^ FANT, G. & PAULI, S. (1974) Spatial characteristics of vocal tract resonance models. Proceedings of the Stockholm Speech Communication Seminar, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
  7. ^ Relevant U of Calgary webs site
  8. ^ Stanford CCRMA‘s Music Kit
  9. ^ HILL, D.R., MANZARA, L. & TAUBE-SCHOCK, C-R. (1995) Real-time articulatory speech-synthesis-by-rules. Proc. AVIOS ‘95 14th Annual International Voice Technologies Conf, San Jose, 12-14 September 1995, 27-44
  10. ^ Gnu project savannah site
  11. ^ Overview of the Gnuspeech system

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Categories: Software | Speech synthesis

Solibri Model Viewer

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Solibri Forma Viewer is built for viewing Open Kanon IFC files and Solibri Szablon Checker files. Solibri Krój Viewer brings BIM files from all IFC compatible software products available for you in a single environment. It works on PC and Macintosh platforms. The software usage is free of charge. Imports IFC2.0, IFC2x, IFC2×2, and IFC2×3 files. Imports Solibri Szablon Checker files including results and presentations.


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Spotify

Posted under Uncategorized od on środa 12 listopad 2008 at 6:06 przed południem

Spotify (composed of spot and identify,) is a music streaming software, which allows the multiple encrypted direct przewożenie of pieces of music without delay.

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mode of operation and układ requirements

Spotify provides the przenoszenie of soundfiles via net through the combination of server-based Streaming and the Peer-to-Peer-technology (P2P) (also: Cloud Computing). Even with slow sieć connections there are no great delays when playing music. In these cases the rate of transmission should be at least 256 kbit/s. The soundfiles can be played as if they were installed on the hard disk of the user. For this the often used soundfiles are transferred via P2P from the Cache computer of the Spotify-user. By this the available bandwidth can be efficiently used and supported when using Streaming.

The basic requirement is at least Mac OS X 10.4 as well as Windows XP or a newer operating ustrój. Also the operating systems of Wine and Linux are supported. The used Cache-memory size can be limited by the user and the memory location of Cache can be defined. There should be a big amount of free memory on the computer hard disk, a minimum of 1 GB Cache on the local hard disk.

The user must set up an account in odznaczenie to apply the software. This account can be installed on all computers at will, obuwie not used on all computers at the same time. The software stops playing music on the computer, as soon as music is played on a second computer using the same account.

History

Spotify has been developed since 2006 by a developer reprezentacja narodowa of Spotify AB, Stockholm, Sweden. The company Spotify was founded by Daniel Ek (former CTO of stardoll.com) and Martin Lorentzon (former CEO of tradedoubler in Stockholm, Sweden.

Costs and availability

Spotify is freeware and can be downloaded for free. All offered pieces of music will be provided by music labels and licensed by them. The licence fees will pay for themselves by two ways: Either a subscription is paid or commercials are accepted.

The user has access to tracks of all Major Labels and numerous smaller labels, the repertoire being constantly extended through new labels. The tracks can be found via search for interpreters, titles, albums, genres or the year of publication.

The users can set up (playlists) and share them or edit them together with other users (Collaborative software or Groupware). For this purpose the playlist hiperłącze can directly be dragged in an email or an Instant Messaging-window. If the recipient follows the odsyłacz the playlist will be downloaded on the Spotify-account of the recipient. Like normal links the playlist links can be used everywhere for example on websites. The same principle also works for single tracks, which can be used via środek odurzający and Drop on applications and websites at will.

The tracks can also be downloaded for a fee. The Peer-to-Peer-Streaming, mostly known for illegal downloads, can now be used legally through the Spotify Software.

See also

  • Instant Messaging
  • Groupware
  • Streaming Media
  • Peer-to-Peer

References

  1. ↑ http://www.spotify.com
  2. ↑ http://www.vimeo.com/1939731
  3. ↑ http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=238993

Weblinks

  • http://www.spotify.com

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Categories: Software

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