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Naturalness
About: Naturalness is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1305 publications have been published within this topic receiving 31737 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the relationship between the legibility and naturalness of military heritage landscapes (19th-20th century) in five European countries as well as the social preference for these landscapes, taking into account the complexity of these relationships (mediating effects).
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TL;DR: The authors argue that Spinoza's claims about the naturalness of democracy are only fully intelligible in light of the connection between his metaphysics, on the one hand, and his conception of political right on the other.
Abstract: Benedict Spinoza is arguably the first important political philosopher to endorse democracy as the best government. He does so primarily on the basis of the claim that it is the most natural regime. However, there are features of Spinoza’s argument that complicate efforts to interpret his understanding of the naturalness of democracy, especially (i) the tension between his claims about the naturalness and rationality of democracy; and (ii) uncertainty about Spinoza’s attitude toward the natural end or goal of political life. This study argues that Spinoza’s claims about the naturalness of democracy are only fully intelligible in light of the connection between his metaphysics, on the one hand, and his conception of political right, on the other. We conclude that Spinoza believed the naturalness, and hence superiority, of democracy rests on its capacity to promote a formative purpose that includes both the perfection of social construction in the state and the intellectual and moral development of individuals.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method of improving the primary framework by modifying the state-of-the-art speaker individuality feature (namely, x-vector) in a neural waveform speech synthesis model.
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23 May 2022
TL;DR: An autoregressive speech synthesis model based on the variational autoencoder incorporating latent sequence representation for acoustic and linguistic features and the structure of a hidden semi-Markov model (HSMM) is proposed.
Abstract: This paper proposes an autoregressive speech synthesis model based on the variational autoencoder incorporating latent sequence representation for acoustic and linguistic features and the structure of a hidden semi-Markov model (HSMM). Although autoregressive models can provide efficient and accurate modeling of acoustic features, they have exposure bias, i.e., the mismatch between training (teacher-forcing) and inference (free-running). To overcome this problem, we introduce an autoregressive latent variable sequence, rather than using autoregressive generation of observations. Latent representation of alignment using HSMM-based structured attention mechanism enables the use of a completely consistent training algorithm for acoustic modeling with explicit duration models. Experimental results indicate that the proposed model outperformed baselines in subjective naturalness.
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01 Mar 2008
TL;DR: Direct translation as discussed by the authors is an approach that aims to attain the highest possible level of resemblance to the source text by transferring the source's communicative clues and requiring readers to familiarise themselves with its context, an assumption that minimises the need to provide contextually implicit information, explicate figurative language, adopt inclusive language or remove ambiguities.
Abstract: The purpose of this article is to provide a readable descriptionption of direct translation, an approach that emerges logically from a relevance theoretical perspective on communication. Direct translation is an approach that strives to attain the highest possible level of resemblance to the source text. It does this by transferring the source's communicative clues and requiring readers to familiarise themselves with the its context, an assumption that minimises the need to provide contextually implicit information, explicate figurative language, adopt inclusive language or remove ambiguities. It values a good balance between naturalness and literalness, prioritising naturalness when these two conflict.
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