Abstract: Automatic speaker verification (ASV), one of the most important technology for biometric identification, has been widely adopted in security-critical applications. However, ASV is seriously ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Government shutdown halts SNAP benefits, leaving SC families in crisis The ongoing government shutdown, now in its 24th day, is beginning to severely impact communities across South Carolina.The state ...

Abstract: This paper presents a denoising and dereverberation hierarchical neural vocoder (DNR-HiNet) to convert noisy and reverberant acoustic features into a clean speech waveform. We implement it ...

Max Martin is one of Taylor Swift’s favorite collaborators — as on her soon-to-be blockbuster The Life of a Showgirl, where he and Shellback co-produced and co-wrote the whole album. Martin, the ...

A major carmaker has issued a recall in the UK over concerns that the brake pedals could fall off one of its vehicle models. Citron drivers have been told to stop using their cars immediately ...

When my dad taught me and my siblings to drive back in the day, it wasn’t in our ’72 Impala family sedan with an automatic transmission but in his barebones ’69 Beetle commuter car with a four-speed ...

Here is a deal that’s guaranteed to send an excited shiver through the lycra of plenty of Australian dealmakers. Travel agency Flight Centre has hired advisory firm Grant Samuel to review options for ...

The best clipless pedals will increase your pedalling efficiency, power transfer and comfort. Typically, road cyclists use clipless pedals while commuters tend to prefer flat pedals to be able to put ...

A 12-year-old boy was impaled in the stomach by a pedal after falling from his bicycle in Baling, a town in the Malaysian state of Kedah on Sep. 26. Baling Fire and Rescue Station (BBP) chief said his ...