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Routes for specialization in psychology throughout Europe

The specialization of psychology helps to delineate fields in the practice of psychology. When establishing professional qualification criteria, associations seek to promote, in their members, scientific skills and knowledge considered fundamental for the practice of psychology in a given area. The present study reports on a survey of the member associations of the European Federation of Psychologists Associati...

Caracterização do parque habitacional na ilha de São Miguel

A nossa sociedade tem vindo cada vez mais a preocupar-se com a preservação do parque edificado e com a redução do consumo energético nos edifícios. Todavia, os casos de falta de eficiência energética e de durabilidade dos edifícios ainda são muito frequentes. A definição das soluções que melhor se adequam a cada caso só será possível com um conhecimento aprofundado das características do parque edificado. Neste...

O conhecimento do passado para apoiar, no futuro, a Agricultura, Zootecnia e Te...

Internists and Autoimmune Diseases: the Portuguese National Registry

Background: The clinical variability and the diagnostic diffi culty inherent to all autoimmune diseases leads to their frequent diagnosis and treatment by Internal Medicine specialists. Although it is known that many Portuguese internists work in this fi eld, the real dimension of this activity is unknown.Methods: An inquiry was sent by mail to the 118 Internal Medicine departments registered in the Portuguese ...

Sistemas de conversão texto-fala

No presente trabalho apresenta-se a constituição de um sistema genérico de Conversão Texto-Fala, explicando as funções dos vários módulos constituintes e descrevendo as respectivas técnicas bem como o enquadramento científico com as áreas da linguística, comunicação e computação. Dada a grande importância da interface homem-máquina por voz, a função do conversor Texto-Fala, que aí tem um papel central, merece a...

A project of speech input and output in an e-commerce application

The present paper describes the work done during the last year in the development of European Portuguese (EP) speech recognition and synthesis channels for an Internet e-commerce application. The objective of this work was to develop the appropriate speech input and output, to enable the user to more comfortably use an e-commerce web site issuing commands and options under guidance of a menu system. The speech ...

Phonetic events from the labeling the european Portuguese database for speech s...

In this paper a labeled new speech signal database (FEUP/IPB-DB) in Standard European Portuguese (hereafter SEP) is presented. The objective of this work is, on one hand, to provide phonetic material for Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems construction, either from the start or to improve the quality of existing ones, and, on the other hand, to place at service of the SEP scientific community a phonetically and prosod...

Back close non-syllabic vowel [U] behaviour in European Portuguese: reduction o...

In this paper we analyse and describe the phonetic behavior of the non-tonic back closed vowel [u] in European Portuguese (EP) in what respects its quality and relative duration. Slow and faster speech was used. The objective of this work is to contribute with experimental results in order to obtain a more accurate comprehension of this vowel’s profile, which can be integrated and extended to other non-tonic vo...

Correlation between phonetic factors and linguistic events regarding a prosodic...

In this article a prosodic model for European Portuguese (henceforth EP) based on a linguistic approach is described. It was developed in the scope of the Antigona Project, an electronic-commerce system using a speech interface (Speech to Text plus Text To Speech, the latter based on a time concatenation technique) for EP language. The purpose of our work is to contribute with practical strategies in order to i...