A novel emotional speaker recognition system (ESRS) is proposed to compensate for emotion variability. First, the emotion recognition is adopted as a pre-processing part to classify the neutral and emotional speech....A novel emotional speaker recognition system (ESRS) is proposed to compensate for emotion variability. First, the emotion recognition is adopted as a pre-processing part to classify the neutral and emotional speech. Then, the recognized emotion speech is adjusted by prosody modification. Different methods including Gaussian normalization, the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) and support vector regression (SVR) are adopted to define the mapping rules of F0s between emotional and neutral speech, and the average linear ratio is used for the duration modification. Finally, the modified emotional speech is employed for the speaker recognition. The experimental results show that the proposed ESRS can significantly improve the performance of emotional speaker recognition, and the identification rate (IR) is higher than that of the traditional recognition system. The emotional speech with F0 and duration modifications is closer to the neutral one.展开更多
Andrej Belyj is the main representative of Russia symbolism. Symbolists pursue the text mystique with massive utilization of myth. But here myth has changed and obtained new myth characteristic, which is manifested in...Andrej Belyj is the main representative of Russia symbolism. Symbolists pursue the text mystique with massive utilization of myth. But here myth has changed and obtained new myth characteristic, which is manifested in Perterburg.展开更多
George Meredith (1828-1909) is acknowledged as a creator of memorable female characters. Meredith's heroines are radically different from the women generally encountered in Victorian fiction. Characteristically, Me...George Meredith (1828-1909) is acknowledged as a creator of memorable female characters. Meredith's heroines are radically different from the women generally encountered in Victorian fiction. Characteristically, Meredith constructs a type of female character who, in a social context hostile to any break with convention, refuses to conform to the stereotype of the weak, passive, and dependant woman. In accordance with J. S. Mill's observations in The Subjection of Women (1869), Meredith thought that the progress of society could be possible only through female emancipation and admittance of women into public practice. This paper discusses the themes of marital disintegration and "conscious adultery" that affirm the legitimacy of female pleasure against coercion Thus, the paper will take into consideration the sonnet sequence Modern Love (1862) and one of Meredith's most neglected novels, Lord Ormont and His Aminta (1894), whose heroines are unexpectedly depicted as non-conventional, strong, and proud. A close reading of the texts will reveal the narrative strategies and textual devices through which Meredith exploited a model of womanhood that, by subverting the current ideas on sex, marriage, and gender roles, is able to countermine male "egoism", the only obstacle to the genuine progress of Victorian society toward real democratization展开更多
The notion of invisibility in Invisible Man is spoken out by the protagonist's growth as an orator. Rather than a recursive retrieving of his identity throughout the narrative, the invisible man reinvents his identit...The notion of invisibility in Invisible Man is spoken out by the protagonist's growth as an orator. Rather than a recursive retrieving of his identity throughout the narrative, the invisible man reinvents his identity in his pursuit of pure persuasion. Both being terms in the Burkean system of literature rhetoric, pure persuasion, and identification become one for the unconscious purpose and the other for the symbolic action respectively in the protagonist-speaker's growth from an ideal emulator to speaker-audience mediator. In his identification with the audience and his ardent pursuit of pure persuasion, he paradoxically finds himself distanced from both his identity-to-be and the identity of his audience, with great division in-between. Though temporary corporation is achieved and occasional identification is resolved in the last two speeches, the protagonist only finds himself in a rhetorical context which is much more varied and more manipulative than he imagined. Such a realization renders the invisible man invisible again from the public stadium, who decides to resort to the pen for a life-long identification with the broader battlefield of racial discontinuity展开更多
This paper aims to reflect upon the approximations between literature and history in Pat Barker's novel Regeneration (1991). The novel fictionalizes the conversations held by three war veterans who wrote and fought...This paper aims to reflect upon the approximations between literature and history in Pat Barker's novel Regeneration (1991). The novel fictionalizes the conversations held by three war veterans who wrote and fought in the First World War (Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Robert Graves) during their stay at Craiglockart's Hospital--a war hospital for the treatment of shell-shocked officers, in Scotland. The paper addresses more emphatically how traditional male and female roles are renegotiated in Barker's metafiction. Finally, it provides some considerations on British women war writing of the First World War, a tradition in which Regeneration is rooted and emerges as a remarkable contemporary example.展开更多
This article presents a general form of the estimator for identifying dispersion effects from unreplicated two-level factorial experiments,and shows that the widely used estimators such as the BH,MH,and AMH estimators...This article presents a general form of the estimator for identifying dispersion effects from unreplicated two-level factorial experiments,and shows that the widely used estimators such as the BH,MH,and AMH estimators are all special cases of the proposed one,designated as the G estimator.The unbiased condition of the G estimator is proved,and a lower bound of variance of the G estimator is provided.A simulation based on a realistic design illustrates the variation of the variance and MSE(mean square error) of the G estimator on different coefficients.This estimator may be more flexible and has better performance than other methods such as the BH and MH estimators by appropriately selecting the coefficients.展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60872073, 60975017, 51075068)the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (No. 10252800001000001)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK2010546)
文摘A novel emotional speaker recognition system (ESRS) is proposed to compensate for emotion variability. First, the emotion recognition is adopted as a pre-processing part to classify the neutral and emotional speech. Then, the recognized emotion speech is adjusted by prosody modification. Different methods including Gaussian normalization, the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) and support vector regression (SVR) are adopted to define the mapping rules of F0s between emotional and neutral speech, and the average linear ratio is used for the duration modification. Finally, the modified emotional speech is employed for the speaker recognition. The experimental results show that the proposed ESRS can significantly improve the performance of emotional speaker recognition, and the identification rate (IR) is higher than that of the traditional recognition system. The emotional speech with F0 and duration modifications is closer to the neutral one.
文摘Andrej Belyj is the main representative of Russia symbolism. Symbolists pursue the text mystique with massive utilization of myth. But here myth has changed and obtained new myth characteristic, which is manifested in Perterburg.
文摘George Meredith (1828-1909) is acknowledged as a creator of memorable female characters. Meredith's heroines are radically different from the women generally encountered in Victorian fiction. Characteristically, Meredith constructs a type of female character who, in a social context hostile to any break with convention, refuses to conform to the stereotype of the weak, passive, and dependant woman. In accordance with J. S. Mill's observations in The Subjection of Women (1869), Meredith thought that the progress of society could be possible only through female emancipation and admittance of women into public practice. This paper discusses the themes of marital disintegration and "conscious adultery" that affirm the legitimacy of female pleasure against coercion Thus, the paper will take into consideration the sonnet sequence Modern Love (1862) and one of Meredith's most neglected novels, Lord Ormont and His Aminta (1894), whose heroines are unexpectedly depicted as non-conventional, strong, and proud. A close reading of the texts will reveal the narrative strategies and textual devices through which Meredith exploited a model of womanhood that, by subverting the current ideas on sex, marriage, and gender roles, is able to countermine male "egoism", the only obstacle to the genuine progress of Victorian society toward real democratization
文摘The notion of invisibility in Invisible Man is spoken out by the protagonist's growth as an orator. Rather than a recursive retrieving of his identity throughout the narrative, the invisible man reinvents his identity in his pursuit of pure persuasion. Both being terms in the Burkean system of literature rhetoric, pure persuasion, and identification become one for the unconscious purpose and the other for the symbolic action respectively in the protagonist-speaker's growth from an ideal emulator to speaker-audience mediator. In his identification with the audience and his ardent pursuit of pure persuasion, he paradoxically finds himself distanced from both his identity-to-be and the identity of his audience, with great division in-between. Though temporary corporation is achieved and occasional identification is resolved in the last two speeches, the protagonist only finds himself in a rhetorical context which is much more varied and more manipulative than he imagined. Such a realization renders the invisible man invisible again from the public stadium, who decides to resort to the pen for a life-long identification with the broader battlefield of racial discontinuity
文摘This paper aims to reflect upon the approximations between literature and history in Pat Barker's novel Regeneration (1991). The novel fictionalizes the conversations held by three war veterans who wrote and fought in the First World War (Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Robert Graves) during their stay at Craiglockart's Hospital--a war hospital for the treatment of shell-shocked officers, in Scotland. The paper addresses more emphatically how traditional male and female roles are renegotiated in Barker's metafiction. Finally, it provides some considerations on British women war writing of the First World War, a tradition in which Regeneration is rooted and emerges as a remarkable contemporary example.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Fund of China under Grant No.61503228Scientific and Technological Innovation Programs of Higher Education Institutions in Shanxi under Grant No.2015106
文摘This article presents a general form of the estimator for identifying dispersion effects from unreplicated two-level factorial experiments,and shows that the widely used estimators such as the BH,MH,and AMH estimators are all special cases of the proposed one,designated as the G estimator.The unbiased condition of the G estimator is proved,and a lower bound of variance of the G estimator is provided.A simulation based on a realistic design illustrates the variation of the variance and MSE(mean square error) of the G estimator on different coefficients.This estimator may be more flexible and has better performance than other methods such as the BH and MH estimators by appropriately selecting the coefficients.