A system employing high-quality speech compression technology to produce voice on demand for visually handicapped persons

2002 ◽  
Vol 85 (11) ◽  
pp. 56-70
Author(s):  
Takao Kaneko ◽  
Hitoshi Ohmuro ◽  
Kazunori Mano
Keyword(s):  
Speech Compression ◽  
High Quality ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Visually Handicapped

Mobile and Cloud Technologies for Smarter Governance

2015 ◽  
pp. 2323-2353
Author(s):  
Pethuru Raj
Keyword(s):  
Smart Phones ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Minimum Requirement ◽  
Cloud Adoption ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Quality Technology ◽  
Composite Services ◽  
Self Service ◽  
Cloud Technologies ◽  
Software Services

There are hordes of data-driven, context-aware, and people-centric applications and services for smarter environments such as smarter homes, governments, buildings, cities, and organizations. With the exponential growth of smart phones, there are service repositories and application stores in remote mobile clouds. Similarly, with the ceaseless advancements in the device ecosystem and in the IT field, government-specific applications will flourish and be deployed and maintained in special cloud stores, platforms, and infrastructures to be found, bound, and used by any input/output devices for a variety of everyday personal and professional purposes. Smart, sustainable, intuitive, and citizen-aware services can be dynamically created from the ground up as well as orchestrated or choreographed out of multiple atomic and discrete software services. Such composite services are directly fulfilling government activities. Thus, clouds emerge as the most common and minimum requirement for not only producing and stocking services but also for hosting application platforms. Further, clouds facilitate provisioning and renting out their configurable and customizable assets on demand. Through self-service portals, the cloud usage is to pick up fast in the days to unfold. In this chapter, the authors write about how cloud adoption is to ring in delectable transformations for worldwide governments as well as their citizens, that is, how governments can accomplish more with less, how people can experience high quality, technology-sponsored digital living, how the cloud idea becomes a centre of attraction for more ingenuity towards newer and nimbler service conceptualization, concretization, and delivery.

Some Implications for Supervision of the Para professional in Home Services for the Visually Handicapped

1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-87
Author(s):  
Adele P. Hollem
Keyword(s):  
Training Programs ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Administrative Staff ◽  
Handicapped Person ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Complete Network ◽  
Interagency Cooperation ◽  
Visually Handicapped

To provide a complete network of high quality services to the visually handicapped person it is necessary to have interagency cooperation and coordination of efforts, including interagency supervision of personnel. This cooperation should include participation in training programs, supervision of the paraprofessional in individual case situations, and regularly held interagency administrative staff meetings to evaluate services. It is important that all concerned share the same goals for the welfare of the client.

Effects of journalism awards as quality signals on demand

Journalism ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 146488491987622
Author(s):  
Christian-Mathias Wellbrock ◽  
Marvin Wolfram
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Difference ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Category Information ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Market Shares ◽  
Quality Signals ◽  
Audience Development ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Small Positive Effect

This article examines the question whether journalism awards can serve as quality signals and increase the demand for quality journalism. Information asymmetries between suppliers (journalists) and consumers (reader, viewers, users) can lead to inefficiently low demand for high-quality journalistic products, since consumers are unable to verify the product’s quality before consumption (ex ante). This problem can be addressed by providing customers with quality signals. We test the hypothesis that journalism awards can serve as quality signals by analyzing the signaling power of the German Grimme Prize in the category ‘Information and Culture’. A quantitative difference-in-differences approach is used to discover differences in the audience development of 109 nominees and winners. Results show that winning the Grimme Prize has a small positive effect on audience reach with respect to the total audience. Nevertheless, no effect on broadcasts’ market shares is discernable. Considering different audience groups, winning the award particularly seems to attract those consumers who are expected to have lesser experience with journalistic broadcasts.

scholarly journals Market Structure, Reputation, and the Value of Quality Certification

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 83-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel W. Elfenbein ◽  
Raymond Fisman ◽  
Brian McManus
Keyword(s):  
Market Structure ◽  
Product Space ◽  
Past Performance ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Certification Programs ◽  
Online Marketplace ◽  
Quality Certification ◽  
Using Data

Quality certification programs help consumers identify high-quality products or sellers in markets with information asymmetries. Using data from eBay UK's online marketplace, we study how certification's impact on demand varies with market- and seller-level attributes, exploiting variation in sellers' certification status within groups of near-identical listings. The positive effects of eBay's “top rated seller” certification are stronger for categories with few other certified sellers, in more competitive markets, and for sellers with shorter records of past performance. These findings indicate certification provides more value when certification is rare, the product space is crowded, and for sellers lacking established reputations. (JEL D12, D82, L15, L86)

A Survey of Dates Exporting: On Saudi Arabia

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 448
Author(s):  
A R. Pon Periyasamy ◽  
S. Padmanayaki
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Regression Model ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Data Base ◽  
Domestic Demand ◽  
High Quality ◽  
External Market ◽  
Company Strategy ◽  
On Demand

The study focus on testing the determinants of competitive advantage of dates marketing from Saudi Arabia through multi- regression model based on Porter’s diamond, which is determined the factor that affecting on competitiveness of nations in international marketing, such as factor conditions, demand conditions, related and supporting industries, and company strategy; structure; and rivalry. Our study selected the most competitive countries for Saudi Arabia in marketing dates in its markets (like Egypt, Iraq, and Tunisia). The results of study showed that the four determinants are significant and R square is high more than 95% in all equations this is agree with our assumptions, but the signs parameters of these determinants are different from our expectations specially with the quantity of production in Saudi Arabia which appear negative with the value of export of dates from KSA, that is because the consumption of dates in domestic market is high and it absorbs the high quality kind of dates, which is needed for external market. We tested also the same determinants for the competitive countries (Egypt, Iraq, and Tunisia); we found the same results, except Egypt, which have huge domestic demand that is effect on demand conditions in this country. Our study suggested more studies are needed for related and supporting industries of dates with this crop, to save data base in this field, and give more attention for quality of dates, packaging and prices for Saudi exporting of dates.

Video-on-Demand as Public Service Television

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
The Internet ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
Air Content ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Television Content ◽  
Quality Programming ◽  
The Uk

Public service broadcasters (PSBs) are operating in a media landscape in which the increased convergence of the Internet and television has blurred the distinctions between broadcast and on-demand TV. In this environment, people can switch easily between live/linear and on-demand viewing within the same interface and access television content through a range of online and Internet-connected services. This chapter suggests that the case for PSB becomes stronger as traditional broadcast and Internet services merge. In a fully commercial media landscape, economically disadvantaged audiences are under-served because they are less able to pay for services and less attractive to advertisers. By providing free-to-air content, PSBs ensure that video-on-demand serves all of the UK public with high-quality programming that entertains, educates, and informs.

Adaptive nonuniform polar quantization application to high quality speech compression

2009 ◽  
Vol 54 (12) ◽  
pp. 1384-1396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Perić ◽  
A. Jovanović ◽  
O. Milanović ◽  
V. Manojlović ◽  
M. Dinčić
Keyword(s):  
Speech Compression ◽  
High Quality
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