Using multilevel modeling to evaluate science literacy and technology course of the Indonesian non-science students [PDF]
Science literacy is being fostered by science education community including the Indonesian education system. Science literacy and technology course has been designed and implemented to strengthen the national initiative empowering scientifically literate Indonesian society.
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Revisiting IPA-based Cross-lingual Text-to-speech [PDF]
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) has been widely used in cross-lingual text-to-speech (TTS) to achieve cross-lingual voice cloning (CL VC). However, IPA itself has been understudied in cross-lingual TTS. In this paper, we report some empirical findings of building a cross-lingual TTS model using IPA as inputs.
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Iterated Piecewise Affine (IPA) Approximation for Language Modeling [PDF]
In this work, we demonstrate the application of a first-order Taylor expansion to approximate a generic function $F: R^{n \times m} \to R^{n \times m}$ and utilize it in language modeling. To enhance the basic Taylor expansion, we introduce iteration and piecewise modeling, leading us to name the algorithm the Iterative Piecewise Affine (IPA ...
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Universal Automatic Phonetic Transcription into the International Phonetic Alphabet [PDF]
This paper presents a state-of-the-art model for transcribing speech in any language into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Transcription of spoken languages into IPA is an essential yet time-consuming process in language documentation, and even partially automating this process has the potential to drastically speed up the documentation of ...
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GIPFA: Generating IPA Pronunciation from Audio [PDF]
Transcribing spoken audio samples into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) has long been reserved for experts. In this study, we examine the use of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model to automatically extract the IPA phonemic pronunciation of a word based on its audio pronunciation, hence its name Generating IPA Pronunciation From Audio ...
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The FruitShell French synthesis system at the Blizzard 2023 Challenge [PDF]
This paper presents a French text-to-speech synthesis system for the Blizzard Challenge 2023. The challenge consists of two tasks: generating high-quality speech from female speakers and generating speech that closely resembles specific individuals. Regarding the competition data, we conducted a screening process to remove missing or erroneous text ...
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Multitasking with Alexa Multitasking with Alexa: How Using Intelligent Personal Assistants Impacts Language-based Primary Task Performance [PDF]
Intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) are supposed to help us multitask. Yet the impact of IPA use on multitasking is not clearly quantified, particularly in situations where primary tasks are also language based. Using a dual task paradigm, our study observes how IPA interactions impact two different types of writing primary tasks; copying and ...
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Inference-Time Policy Adapters (IPA): Tailoring Extreme-Scale LMs without Fine-tuning [PDF]
While extreme-scale language models have demonstrated exceptional performance on a variety of language tasks, the degree of control over these language models through pure prompting can often be limited. Directly fine-tuning such language models can be effective for tailoring them, but it can be either extremely costly (e.g., GPT-3) or not even ...
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Interactive Static Software Performance Analysis in the IDE [PDF]
Detecting performance issues due to suboptimal code during the development process can be a daunting task, especially when it comes to localizing them after noticing performance degradation after deployment. Static analysis has the potential to provide early feedback on performance problems to developers without having to run profilers with expensive ...
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Marangoni spreading due to a localized alcohol supply on a thin water film [PDF]
Bringing the interfaces of two miscible fluids into contact naturally generates strong gradients in surface tension. Here we investigate such a Marangoni-driven flow by continuously supplying isopropyl alcohol (IPA) on a film of water, using micron-sized droplets of IPA-water mixtures.
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