Abstract: This study proposes an innovative speech translation method based on Pix2PixGAN, which maps the Mel spectrograms of speech produced by deaf individuals to those of normal-hearing individuals ...

During the measurement, the kinetic energy spectrum of the photoelectrons is recorded as a function of the delay between two pulse replicas ionizing the gas target (see Fig. 1). The recorded ...

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What if the programming language you rely on most is on the brink of a transformation? For millions of developers worldwide, Python is not just a tool, it’s a cornerstone of their craft, powering ...

I've been digging into the audio preprocessing in transformers.js and noticed an issue: There are currently no unit tests for the audio_utils module in the JS implementation. The output of spectrogram ...

Abstract: In this work, we propose CleanMel, a single-channel Mel-spectrogram denoising and dereverberation network for improving both speech quality and automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance ...

TL;DR: Musician and acoustic scientist Benn Jordan achieved a potential world first by encoding data onto a live European starling. Using a spectral synthesizer, he transformed an image into sound, ...

Over the course of any given year, more than 200 bird species live just west of Manhattan's spires in the Hackensack Meadowlands. Scientists have known that for a while, with the Meadowlands serving ...

Until recently, the Andean bear—the only species of bear in South America, easily recognized by the light-colored markings that frame its face like glasses—was thought to be almost mute; there were ...

A startling milestone has been reached in Florida's war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and ...

Examining audio recordings to determine their authenticity and verify the content within can be critical for journalists conducting investigations. Forensic audio analysis, however, often is ...