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Redundancy And Productivity In The Speech Technology Lexicon

Current lexica for speech technology typically contain much redundancy, while omitting useful information. A comparison with lexica in other media and for other purposes is instructive, as it highlights some features we may borrow for text-to-speech and speech recognition lexica. We describe some aspects of the new lexicon we are...

Tags: Lexicon, Speech Recognition, Advertising & Promotion, Emerging Technologies, Marketing

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Travel 2.0 US Report Describes An Emerging Generation Of Travel Oriented Sites

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ac4b0e/travel_2_0_us_repo) has announced the addition of the "Travel 2.0 US Report" report to their offering. Travel 2.0 has become firmly entrenched in the travel industry lexicon as a consequence of the broader trend in internet technology and usage generally referred to as...

Articles 2008-09-24

Mark my words & other cliches

Dented "Confidence in HBOS would be severely dented if there was a lengthy period of uncertainty about whether the takeover can be executed." If a car gets dented, its owners are usually thankful if they just have to take it for a paint-job. But when the same verb is used...

Articles 2008-09-21

Naughty, but Nice

The words of Sandy Wilson's song from his incomparably camp musical, The Boyfriend, don't do justice to the archness of the place. Throw down the lexicon of louche and you can bet a sou to a euro that the page it opens on will have the South of France, the...

Articles 2008-09-20

Dutch

Bruls, Willem, ed. En route: de geschiedenis van Opera Forum Filharmonisch. Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2006. 158 p. ISBN 905730404X. LC 2007-427880. Heijne, Bas. Zang. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij 521, 2006. 121 p. + 1 CD. ISBN 9049970117. ISBN 9789049970116. LC 2006455647. On disc: Schrijvers & klassicke muziek ...

Articles 2008-09-01

Brand Idiomatics Puts Consumption in a Whole New Context

Industry Vet Behind "Alpha Consumer" Launches New Approach to Tracking and Forecasting Long-cycle Consumer Shifts Making Brands Mean More in the New Consumer Idiom NEWTOWN, Pa. -- As the 2008 Democratic Convention plays out in Denver this week, the founding partners of Brand Idiomatics are reaching...

Articles 2008-08-26

Lexicon United Reports Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 Results

Lexicon United Incorporated, Inc. (OTCBB: LXUN),a financial services holding company specializing in collections and creditrecovery, announced today financial results for the second quarter and sixmonths ended June 30, 2008. Net revenues for the quarter ended June 30, 2008 increased 92% to$1,211,244 as compared to $629,493 for the comparable period last...

Articles 2008-08-21

World's Largest Catalog of English Text-to-Speech (TTS) Voices Now an Online Service

Cepstral LLC today announced that it hasreached a milestone of 40 English Text-to-Speech voices and that the entirecatalog is now generally available online as Software as a Service SaaSthrough its VoiceForge property. Developers can now access a simple API toconvert any text or web page into platform-independent audio without...

Articles 2008-08-19

HIGH ART IN LANCASHIRE

One man and his dog leave the city behind to take in a view of the Pennine's panopticons - four new hilltop landmarks that are enchanting a growing number of visitors. Panopticon is a word which has never quite taken hold in the Lancashire lexicon....

Articles 2008-08-16

Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: LoopNet Inc., Coca-Cola FEMSA S.A. de C.V., Fomento Economico Mexicano SAB de C.V., Corrections Corporation of America and Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc

CHICAGO -- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: LoopNet Inc. (Nasdaq: LOOP), Coca-Cola FEMSA S.A. de C.V. (NYSE: KOF),...

Articles 2008-08-01

'Breaking Dawn' Book Release Parties at Over 900 Borders and Waldenbooks Stores Are Just Days Away

Costume contests, trivia from top fan site Twilight Lexicon and 'Jacob vs. Edward' debates to highlight 'Night with a Bite' parties nationwide ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Thousands of eager Stephenie Meyer fans are expected to turn out at more than 900 Borders and Waldenbooks...

Articles 2008-07-30

Happy 108th to oldest living Utahn

BOUNTIFUL -- Things have changed since Irene Leishman was a kid. Understatement, you say? When she was born in 1900, William McKinley was campaigning to become America's 25th president. And she's likely to live long enough to see the election of the 44th president....

Articles 2008-07-26

Can you stomach this lot?

Byline: Denis Kilcommons I GET contributions from readers culled from the internet and I found this one particularly amusing. It's a brief lexicon of culinary terms. Yogurt: Semi-solid dairy product made from partially evaporated and fermented milk. Yogurt is one of only three foods that taste...

Articles 2008-07-22

Angles from heaven

The new Serpentine Pavilion will be Frank Gehry's first project in England. Jay Merrick explains why it's a builder's nightmare - and an architect's dream Alan Williams, a burly subcontractor, gazes up at the jut and splay of the giant, out-of-whack pillars and...

Articles 2008-07-09

Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Corel Corporation, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Proctor & Gamble, Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc. and American Public Education, Inc

CHICAGO -- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Corel Corporation (Nasdaq: CREL), Alexion Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ALXN),...

Articles 2008-07-09

PR Newswire Summary of Technology Copy, July 7, 2008

Following is a summary of high technology news releases transmitted today by PR Newswire. The full text of these releases is available at the PR Newswire for Journalists, http://media.prnewswire.com/. AQM505 07/07/2008 00:01 r f OK-AT&T-Tulsa-U-vers TULSA AT&T U-verse Arrives in Tulsa CLM901...

Articles 2008-07-07

PR Newswire Entertainment Summary, Monday, July 7, 2008

Following is a summary of entertainment news releases transmitted today by PR Newswire. The full text of these releases is available at PR Newswire for Journalists, http://media.prnewswire.com/. AQM505 07/07/2008 00:01 r f OK-AT&T-Tulsa-U-vers TULSA AT&T U-verse Arrives in Tulsa NYM036 07/07/2008 00:01...

Articles 2008-07-07

The DailyCandy Lexicon: Words That Don't Exist but Should Hits Book Shelves Nationwide July 8

Finally! A Handy Guide to the Dialect of Young, Urban, Female Hipsters! NEW YORK, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Are you a cereal monogamist? Annoyed your party was crashed by a nontourage? Proud to be a whor d'ouevre? Whether it's a group of surfers, bankers,...

Articles 2008-07-07

All Stuffed Up

It's called stachybotrys, and by some accounts, it's the stuff of horror movies. Dubbed 'toxic,' 'black,' or 'killer' mold, stachybotrys has been the subject of frightening news reports concerning deathly ill children, businessmen with major memory loss, and families fleeing their homes with nothing but the clothes on their...

Articles 2008-07-07

Denmark's Nuevolution has formed a strategic alliance with US Lexicon Pharmaceuticals using Nuevolution's Chemetics drug discovery technology to discover small molecule lead compounds against a range of targets identified by Lexicon through its Genome5000 programme

Denmark's Nuevolution has formed a strategic alliance with US Lexicon Pharmaceuticals using Nuevolution's Chemetics drug discovery technology to discover small molecule lead compounds against a range of targets identified by Lexicon through its Genome5000 programme. This programme explored the physiological and behavioural function of nearly 5000 human genes leading to...

Articles 2008-07-07