Adding Crowd Noise to Sports Commentary using Generative Models

Crowd noise forms an integral part of a live sports experience. In the post-COVID era, when live audiences are absent, crowd noise needs to be added to the live commentary. This paper exploits the correlation between commentary and crowd noise of a live sports event and presents an audio stylizing sports commentary method by generating live stadium-like sound using neural generative models. We use the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)-based architectures such as Cycle-consistent GANs (Cycle-GANs) and Mel-GANs to generate live stadium-like sound samples given the live commentary. Due to the unavailability of raw commentary sound samples, we use end-to-end time-domain source separation models (SEGAN and Wave-U-Net) to extract commentary sound from combined recordings of the live sound acquired from YouTube highlights of soccer videos. We present a qualitative and a subjective user evaluation of the similarity of the generated live sound with the reference live sound.

DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY AND PROVENANCE OF THE PROTEROZOIC QUARTZ-RICH METASEDIMENTS OF THE MAZOWSZE DOMAIN: SOURCE AREAS AND REGIONAL CORRELATION

Drilling at Mońki IG-2 and Zabiele IG-1 in the Mazowsze domain has intersected mature quartz-rich metasedimentary rocks belonging to the basement of NE Poland, described so far as a Biebrza complex. The geochemical composition of these rocks is characteristic of a passive margin. The subarkose–quartz arenite underwent low-T metamorphism, but preserved textures typical for the fluvial sediments. The detrital material in range 1.68–2.11 Ga was provided from surrounding late Paleoproterozoic margins of the Fennoscandia and Sarmatia. The maximum depositional age probably did not exceed 1.6 Ga. A previously suggested correlation with Mesoproterozoic molasse-type deposits of the Jotnian formation has not been confirmed. It seems more likely that the sediments formed after Fennoscandia-Sarmatia collision (i.e. termination of Svecofennian orogeny) but before denudation of the Mesoproterozoic Mazury AMCG intrusions.

Translating emotion-related metaphors: A cognitive approach

The paper explores the existence of cognitive linguistics principles in translation of emotion-related metaphorical expressions. Cognitive linguists (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Lakoff, 1987) define metaphor as a mechanism used for understanding one conceptual domain, target domain, in terms of another conceptual domain, source domain, through sets of correspondences between these two domains. They also claim that metaphor is omnipresent in ordinary discourse. Cognitive linguists, however, also realized that certain metaphors can be recognized and identified in different languages and cultures whereas some are language- and culture-specific. This paper focuses on similarities and variations in metaphors which have recently become popular within the discipline of Translation Studies. Transferring and translating metaphors from one language to another can represent a challenge for translators due to a multi-faceted process of translation including both linguistic and non-linguistic elements. A number of methods and procedures have been developed to overcome potential difficulties in translating metaphorical expressions, with the most frequent ones being substitution, paraphrase, or deletion. The analysis shows the transformation of metaphorical expressions from one language into another and the procedures involving underlying conceptual metaphors, native speaker competence, and the influence of the source language.

Robust DC and efficient time-domain fast fault simulation

Purpose – Imperfections in manufacturing processes may cause unwanted connections (faults) that are added to the nominal, “golden”, design of an electronic circuit. By fault simulation one simulates all situations. Normally this leads to a large list of simulations in which for each defect a steady-state (direct current (DC)) solution is determined followed by a transient simulation. The purpose of this paper is to improve the robustness and the efficiency of these simulations. Design/methodology/approach – Determining the DC solution can be very hard. For this the authors present an adaptive time-domain source stepping procedure that can deal with controlled sources. The method can easily be combined with existing pseudo-transient procedures. The method is robust and efficient. In the subsequent transient simulation the solution of a fault is compared to a golden, fault-free, solution. A strategy is developed to efficiently simulate the faulty solutions until their moment of detection. Findings – The paper fully exploits the hierarchical structure of the circuit in the simulation process to bypass parts of the circuit that appear to be unaffected by the fault. Accurate prediction and efficient solution procedures lead to fast fault simulation. Originality/value – The fast fault simulation helps to store a database with detectable deviations for each fault. If such a detectable output “matches” a result of a product that has been returned because of malfunctioning it helps to identify the subcircuit that may contain the real fault. One aims to detect as much as possible candidate faults. Because of the many options the simulations must be very efficient.