Category: English
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How does it work? | Speech synthesis
In the last issue we talked about speech recognition, today we will discuss the inverse problem. So how does speech synthesis, or, in other words, convert some arbitrary text to voice about it in today’s issue! The task of speech synthesis is solved in several stages. First of all, a special algorithm is necessary to…
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Rising Temperatures Could Make Air Travel Even Worse
A Boeing 737 takes off from Mau Hau Airport. (Image: Riyad Filza/Wikimedia) Last month, as a record-breaking heat wave swept through the southwest United States, dozens of flights were canceled when the blisteringly hot conditions made it hard for jets to take off. New research suggests this wasn’t a one-off event, and that global warming…
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Rich Person Phone Brand Goes Kerplunk
Image: Vertu Vertu, the company that sells $50,000 smartphones, is shutting down its UK manufacturing operations. But everyone saw it coming. The liquidation will result in the loss of some 200 jobs, according to The Telegraph. Employees had already expressed fear of losing their jobs, since the company was reportedly skipping out on paying its…
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Uber Unveils New Privacy Tool That Protects Individual User Data
Photo: Getty You might think of Uber as a ride-hailing company or a lawsuit-ridden self-driving car developer, but at its core, Uber is a big data company. It has to constantly crunch location coordinates, traffic data, payment information, and tax rates—and putting all that data in Uber’s hands sometimes makes users nervous. But now Uber…
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Komodo Dragon Blood Could Save Your Life One Day
Image: The American Chemical Society Many animals are good at healing us emotionally, like capybaras and tiny kittens in tiny hats. Regrettably though, if we got really sick, no amount of golden retriever puppies could do anything to help us. Komodo dragons, on the other hand, might not “adorable” in the traditional sense, but they…
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UN: billions of people without clean drinking water
GENEVA – Of the world’s population, according to a new UN study, 2.1 billion people have no reliable clean drinking water. Reported that the world health organization (WHO) and the UN children’s agency UNICEF Thursday. For wastewater, the situation is even worse: only about a quarter of the people worldwide (1.9 billion people) has toilets…
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Trump in France for two-day visit
PARIS – The American president Donald Trump is on Thursday arrived in France, at Orly airport south of Paris. He brings a two-day visit to the country on the invitation of president Emmanuel Macron. Trump attends the celebration of the national holiday on 14 July and will take part in the commemoration of the First…
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Koekiemonster full of coke
FLORIDA KEYS – The police, the Us Florida Keys has a special drugsvangst done. Koekiemonster, a resident of sesame street, was filled with more than three hundred grams of cocaine. He and his 39-year-old accomplice have been arrested. A deputy sheriff held Monday night a car with tinted windows that a license plate had not…
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The neural network learned to animate Barack Obama
Neural networks today are evolving so quickly that their progress sometimes just can’t keep track. They paint pictures, compose music, voice text the voice of any person to list their achievements can be quite long. Another amazing technology we have demonstrated researchers at the University of Washington. They managed to teach a neural network to…
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The Microsoft Font That Has Scandalized Pakistan’s First Family
Deceased Ex-Football Player's Shady Half Sister Foiled By Microsoft Office Fonts At a recent Hall of Fame news conference, a woman claiming to be Ex-Cowboys receiver Bob… Read more When the Panama Papers were first leaked last year, many wealthy and powerful people were exposed for activities involving the sheltering of large amounts of money…