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The above audio reading by actor Ossie Davis can be used alongside the full text of Frederick Douglass's speech delivered on July 5, 1852 at Corinthian Hall to the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, New York.
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People with certain neurological conditions can lose the ability to speak as a result of facial paralysis. This week, two teams demonstrate the potential of devices called brain-computer interfaces to help people in these situations communicate. These interfaces work by identifying the brain activity associated with the intent to say words, and converting this activity into speech-related outputs, such as text or audio. Both devices show marked improvements compared with previous interfaces, and show that the technology could represent a way to help restore communication to people with severe paralysis.
In their paper, Edward and his colleagues designed a BCI that converted brain activity into different speech-related outputs. They tested their system in a pilot study with the help of a participant who had had a type of stroke 18 years ago, and who was unable to communicate either by speech or typing due to paralysis and muscle weakness in her face, arms and hands.
She had a surgery here at UCSF, that went very well, where we implanted an electrode array with 250 sensors over the part of the brain that's called the motor cortex. And part of this motor cortex is the commands that control the vocal tract, the lips, the jaw of the tongue. And these sensors pick up her intended speech and vocalizations and transmits those signals to a computer.
The speech signals are from one source. And then output is in three different forms. One is text. The second is speech synthesis, audible sounds that you can hear. And the third is basically a talking face like an avatar that's animated with actual facial movements.
I think one of the key things to take away from this is that speech is multimodal in the sense that there's a sound associated with the words that are coming out of my mouth. But for us who are on Zoom, you can actually see the movements of my lips and that's why we value in person face-to-face interactions because there's so much that is there with our expression. And one of the things that I think that was really cool about what we're able to do with this is personalize that experience so our participant could choose from over 100 different avatar forms, choose the hair colour, you know, essentially personalize it to whatever she really preferred.
So for this study, we placed four microelectrode arrays into speech-related areas of cortex. So these are tiny arrays 3.2 by 3.2 millimetres that are placed on the surface of the brain. And they penetrate about one-and-a-half millimetres into the cortex, so that it can record actual activity from single neurons. And then we take that activity and basically interpret the patterns of firing of these neurons. And from that, we're able to decipher what sounds the person is trying to make at each moment in time.
Typical human speech is somewhere around the 150 words per minute mark, and the errors can hinder understandability, so there's still a way to go yet. Nick says that although these papers will hopefully spur academics and companies to develop improved BCIs he thinks there's a lot that needs to be considered. For example, any implants will need to be robust and long lasting and will need to be designed in a way that makes them useful and straightforward for users and caregivers to operate. Currently, there's a lot of equipment and academic expertise required to make these systems work. It also remains to be seen who might be able to use BCI is like these, the two people involved in these papers had limited facial movements. But that's not the case for everyone.
Well, it is obviously a setback for Russia's space program, which has struggled as a result of things like sanctions imposed after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing war there as well. Now, Russia has another two missions to the Moon plans, and they called Luna 26, and Luna 27, one and orbiter and one a lander. But what this failure actually means for that program is it's kind of unclear at the moment. But what it does show I think, is how hard it is to land on the Moon, as you alluded to earlier. In recent years, there have been many failed attempts from different space agencies and private companies, often in this final landing phase, but it's not putting people off to the south pole of the Moon is a hot destination at the moment. So later this year, NASA is hoping to land a craft there. And China has its sights set there too, apparently, but a lot sooner than that. Today. In fact, India's Chandrayaan-3 mission is due to send a lander to the surface now at the time of recording that hasn't happened yet. But by the time you're hearing this, listeners will know whether it managed to sort of get through that dangerous final stage. And we know their previous mission Chandrayaan-2 suffered the same fate as some of these other missions by crashing then as well.
Now of course, there isn't just one language in the world, there are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world. And all the languages differ from one another in all kinds of ways. Some languages have different sounds, they have different vocabularies, and they also have different structures -- very importantly, different structures. That begs the question: Does the language we speak shape the way we think? Now, this is an ancient question. People have been speculating about this question forever. Charlemagne, Holy Roman emperor, said, "To have a second language is to have a second soul" -- strong statement that language crafts reality. But on the other hand, Shakespeare has Juliet say, "What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Well, that suggests that maybe language doesn't craft reality.
Bookbinding is the process of building a book, usually in codex format, from an ordered stack of paper sheets with one's hands and tools, or in modern publishing, by a series of automated processes. Firstly, one binds the sheets of papers along an edge with a thick needle and strong thread. One can also use loose-leaf rings, binding posts, twin-loop spine coils, plastic spiral coils, and plastic spine combs, but they last for a shorter time. Next, one encloses the bound stack of paper in a cover. Finally, one places an attractive cover onto the boards, and features the publisher's information and artistic decorations.
Bookbinding is a skilled trade that requires measuring, cutting, and gluing. A finished book requires many steps to complete. This is usually determined by the materials needed and the layout of the book. Bookbinding combines skills from the trades of paper making, textile and leather-working crafts, model making, and graphic design in order to create a book. For instances, these design and cut pages, assemble pages into paper sheets, et cetera. The trade of bookbinding is both a craft done out of creativity and passion and a process happening in a factory. But each type of bookbinding always resolves three problems in making a book: (i) how to bind the paper sheets into a book block; (ii) how to cover and protect the bound pages; and (iii) how to label and decorate the book covers that protect the pages.[2]
Modern bookbinding by hand can be seen as two closely allied fields: the creation of new bindings, and the repair of existing bindings. Bookbinders are often active in both fields. Bookbinders can learn the craft through apprenticeship; by attending specialized trade schools;[32] by taking classes in the course of university studies, or by a combination of those methods. Some European countries offer a Master Bookbinder certification, though no such certification exists in the United States. MFA programs that specialize in the 'Book Arts' (hand papermaking, printmaking and bookbinding) are available through certain colleges and universities.[33]
Socrates begins to describe how the rulers of the just city are to be selected from the class of the guardians: they need to be older, strong, wise, and wholly unwilling to do anything other than what is advantageous to the city (412b-414b). Socrates suggests that they need to tell the citizens a myth that should be believed by subsequent generations in order for everyone to accept his position in the city (414b-415d). The myth of metals portrays each human as having a precious metal in them: those naturally suited to be rulers have gold, those suited to be guardians have silver, and those suited for farming and the other crafts have bronze.
Farewell speech2017/7/9 13:10 Hi all,
I am leaving my job as an ALT in a couple of weeks, and I have to give a goodbye speech in front of the whole school (three schools, actually!).
I will say some sentences using basic English, but I would also like to say a few simple Japanese sentences as well, so I would really appreciate it if you could help to translate the following into Japanese:
Today is my last day at this school.
Thank you for the last two years.
I really enjoyed being your ALT.
Everybody was very friendly and welcoming.
Please look forward to a new ALT coming next semester.
Thank you so much, really appreciate it :)by Travelholic
Re: Farewell speech2017/7/12 17:18 Thanks again AK.
Actually I did my first speech today and said "osewa ni narimashita" - does that sound strange saying it to young kids? I'm sure I've heard previous teachers use that phrase when leaving at the end of the school year. Anyway, I won't say that again for my other schools (I go to seven schools in total).
"Kore kara mo, eigo wo tanoshinde kudasai." - I really like this phrase to close my speech, so thank you again :)by Travelholicrate this post as useful