Phonetic transcription in automatic speech recognition

This paper discusses automatic phonetic transcription to be applied in Hungarian speech recognition. It first deals with the basic technologies of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for the sake of readers not familiar with this scientific field, then it discusses the place of (automatic) phonetic transcription in ASR. After that, our method developed for transcribing Hungarian texts automatically is introduced. This technique is an extension of the traditional linear transcription approach; its output is called 'optioned' because it contains pronunciation options in parallel arcs. We present our experiences with promising improvements in recogniser training efficiency. The achievements are due to the application of deeper linguistic (phonological) knowledge. With the training technique developed not only the quality of the acoustic models can be enhanced, but also, at the same time, the amount of the required manual work can effectively be decreased

A modern valószínűségszámítás néhány kérdéséről = On some problems of the modern probability theory

Kutatásaink 4 témakörből álltak. Arch és Garch folyamatok és általánosításuk Ezek a pénzügyi matematikában fontos modellek bonyolult lineáris idősorok. Határeloszlástételeket és statisztikai eredményeket bizonyítottunk rájuk. Wiener folyamatok Ezek lokális idejével és a közönséges bolyongás ehhez kapcsolódó problémáival foglalkoztunk. Megadtuk a lokális idő Hilbert transzformáltjának és Cauchy-féle főértékének viselkedését leíró valószínűségi törvényeket, a Wiener excursion és a Bahadur-Kiefer folyamat legfontosabb tulajdonságait. Wiener folyamat lokális és magas dimenziós bolyongások tartózkodási ideje között szoros a kapcsolat. Itt Erdős és Taylor eredményeit javítottuk. Több erős beágyazási tételt bizonyítottunk. Véletlen integrálok Vettük egy normált empirikus mérték önmagával vett direkt szorzatát. Egy többváltozós függvény eszerinti integráljának es ilyen integrálok szuprémumának eloszlására adtunk éles becslést. Ehhez több távoli matematikai elméletet kellett alkalmaznunk. A bizonyított eredmények lehetővé teszik fontos statisztikai módszerek általánosítását. Megmagyarázzák, hogy lehet normált empirikus eloszlásfüggvény funkcionáljait Gauss folyamatok funkcionáljaival közelíteni, és hol vannak e közelítés határai. Véletlen törvényeket teljesítő számelméleti függvények Bebizonyítottuk az iterált logaritmus tétel élesítését és megmutattuk, hogy n_k\alpha alakú számsorozatok diszkrepanciái az n_k sorozat számelméleti tulajdonságaitól függő véletlen törvényeket teljesítenek. | Our research consists of 4 subjects. Arch and Garch process, their generalizations This is an important model in financial mathematics. They are hard non-linear time series. We proved limit theorems and useful statistical results for them. Wiener processes We dealt with their local time and some occupation time problems of random walks. We gave the probabilistic laws of the Hilbert transform and the Cauchy principle value of their local time. We described the most important properties of the Wiener excursion and Bahadur-Kiefer process. The local time of the Wiener process and occupation time of high dimensional random walk are closely related. In this field we improved the results of Erdos and Taylor. We also proved strong embedding results. Multiple random integrals We took the direct product of a normed empirical distribution with itself. We gave sharp bounds on the integral of a function of several variables with respect to it and on the distribution of the supremum of such integrals. We applied several different mathematical theories in the proofs. Our results make possible to generalize some useful statistical methods. They explain how the functionals of normed empirical distributions can be approximated by Gaussian ones, and where the bounds of such approximations are. Number theoretic functions satisfying probabilistic laws We proved refinements of the law of iterated logarithm and showed that the discrepancies of a series of numbers n_k\alpha satisfy probabilistic laws depending on the diophantine properties of the series n_k

Stability study of nasal powder formulation containing nanosized lamotrigine

Drug administration through the nose offers great possibilities which have been discovered in the past few decades. Besides the most known local effect, systemic and central nervous system effect is also available, the administration is non-painful and the degradation effect of the gastrointestinal tract can be avoided. Amongst the nasal formulations, powders have become more popular as their stability is favorable compared to the liquid formulations and a higher doses can be administered in powder form. The quality insurance and stability of the products in the pharmaceutical field have gained considerable attention in the last decades. Due to this fact, the aim was to execute a long-term stability study of a previously developed, nanosized lamotrigine (LAM) containing nasal powder (NP) formulation. The results of the stability test showed that the NP formulation preserved its key properties (particle size, morphology, structure and in vitro drug release) after 6 months of storage

Preparation, structure and giant magnetoresistance of electrodeposited Fe Co/Cu multilayers

No systematic studies have been carried out on the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) of electrodeposited (ED) Fe-Co/Cu multilayers since the elaboration of a method for the optimization of the Cu layer deposition potential. In this paper, we present results on the electrochemical optimization of the Cu layer deposition potential which was found to depend on the relative iron concentration in the bath. An X-ray diffraction study of ED Fe5Co95(1.5 nm)/Cu(dCu) multilayers with dCu ranging from 0.8 nm to 10 nm revealed an fcc structure. For most of the multilayers, weak superlattice satellite reflections could be identified. The room-temperature magnetoresistance was studied in detail as a function of the individual layer thicknesses. Multilayers with Cu layer thicknesses above about 1.5 nm were found to exhibit a GMR behavior with a maximum GMR of about 5 % and a typical saturation field of 1 kOe. The GMR magnitude decreased with increasing Fe-content in the magnetic layer. The spacer layer thickness evolution of the MR data was established in detail after separating the ferromagnetic and superparamagnetic GMR contributions and no oscillatory GMR was found. A comparison with literature data on both physically deposited and ED Fe-Co/Cu multilayers is also made