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July 6, 2015
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Surviving Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, and friends (including Phish's Trey Anastasio) celebrated their 50th anniversary with five 'Fare Thee Well' shows. The first two were in California, and this past weekend they came to Chicago for three Soldier Field shows (July 3-5). We've got more pictures, audio, and more details over at BrooklynVegan. A couple pics from night 1 are above, and you can check out the setlists from all three nights below...
Continue reading "Pics & setlists: Grateful Dead @ Chicago's Soldier Field"
July 1, 2015
photo: Grateful Dead fan in California (more by Jay Blakesberg)
With the Dead's arrival in Chicago, many out of town Dead Heads included, the band have published a helpful guide. Penned by Dead expert and superfan Jesse Jarnow, the "Official DEAD HEAD's guide to Chicago" (PDF) contains a map pointing to spots containing Grateful Dead history along with a listing of some of the special Dead-related items you'll be able to pick up, eat and drink this 4th of July weekend in honor of the three shows at Soldier Field.
Don't have a ticket yet? Try CashOrTrade and TicketsNow.
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Death Grips, who notoriously cancel shows and were supposedly broken up anyway, are actually touring for real. The tour hit Chicago's Metro last night (6/30). More pictures at BrooklynVegan.
photo: Grateful Dead fan in California (more by Jay Blakesberg)
To quote the Dead's own website:
CashorTrade.org is the world's first, fair trade marketplace where fans ethically buy, sell, and trade tickets for face value. Since the organizations inception in February 2009, the community has grown to almost 49,000+ site members and another 80,000 in the social networks. Grateful Dead 50 Tickets listings on CashorTrade.org can be found [HERE].Good luck!
Need another route? Ticketmaster also has lots of (more expensive) listings via their secondary market site TicketsNow, and then of course there's Craigslist and/or a good old fashioned miracle.
Grateful Dead tickets for sale @ TicketsNow (thousands of them!) ++++ check out pics from Santa Clara
photo: Grateful Dead fans in California (more by Jay Blakesberg)
Still looking for a ticket to see the Grateful Dead at Soldier Field this weekend? Ticketsnow, the 'resale marketplace' ticket site that is in fact part of the Ticketmaster and Live Nation family, is listing thousands of them for sale, and we're seeing tickets up there now around $200 each which is potentially what they would have cost originally (depending on where they are).
Meanwhile, check out photos from the two shows in Santa Clara (one and two).
June 30, 2015
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Mikal Cronin @ Subterranean, 6/20/2015
Mikal Cronin's current tour swung through Chicago last week, playing Subterranean on June 20 with Uh Bones. Pictures from that show are in this post. We'll have another chance to see him not too far off -- Mikal's MCIII tour will be back, stopping at Thalia Hall on September 13 with Calvin Love and Cairo Gang. Tickets are on sale now.
All Mikal Cronin dates are listed, along with more pics from his Subterranean show, below...
Continue reading "Mikal Cronin played Subterranean with Uh Bones (pics), playing Thalia Hall in September (dates)"
June 29, 2015
photos by James Richards IV
Punk veterans brought their 'Battle of the Centuries' tour to Chicago last week for shows on June 22 and 23 at Metro. The premise of the tour is that each city gets a 2-night stand, with the first night being all 20th century songs and the second night being all 21st century songs. We reviewed one of the 21st century nights in NYC over at BrooklynVegan, which you can read here.
The pictures in this post are from the 21st century night at Metro, including shots of Epitaph newcomers Plague Vendor who opened the whole tour. More pictures below...
Continue reading "Bad Religion & Plague Vendor @ Metro (pics)"
Jenny Lewis added to Alex Bleeker's Grateful Dead tribute at City Winery Chicago (which is in Dead mode all week)
Grateful Dead mania is in full force, with the California shows right behind us (pictures, recap, setlist) and the Chicago shows coming up this weekend. As we mentioned, there's also a late-night celebration at City Winery Chicago on 7/3 (11:30 PM doors) with a bunch of indie musicians covering the dead, including members of Real Estate, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo and more. Making it an even better lineup, an exciting new addition was just announced: Jenny Lewis.
The full lineup is now Real Estate's Alex Bleeker and his band The Freaks with special guests Jenny Lewis, Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan and James McNew, Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, Little Wings' Kyle Field, Little Wings collaborator Lee Baggett, Darkside's Dave Harrington, Darkside collaborator Will Epstein, M. Geddes Gengras, Ryley Walker, and Bleeker's Real Estate bandmate Matt Kallman. Tickets are still available, and we're giving away a pair. Contest details below.
The tribute show happens after City Winery hosts a simulcast viewing of the Dead's Chicago show that night, which happens at Soldier Field. City Winery is hosting the Simulcast for their Saturday and Sunday shows too, and will basically be in Dead mode all week with "Weir World" shows featuring Jonathan Wilson (Tues-Thurs), Steve Kimock & Jerry Joseph (Fri-Sat afternoon), Matishayu & a member of The Disco Biscuits (Sat late night), Joan Osborne (Sun afternoon), and Railroad Earth Sun late night). Tickets for City Winery's week of Dead celebrations are on sale.
Continue reading "Jenny Lewis added to Alex Bleeker's Grateful Dead tribute at City Winery Chicago (which is in Dead mode all week)"
June 23, 2015
photo: The Prodigy in NYC in 2009 (more by Zach Dilgard)
The Prodigy, System of a Down, 88 Fingers Lougie and Chef'Special were added to Riot Fest Chicago 2015. Full lineup HERE.
The fest happens September 11-13 in Douglas Park. Tickets are still available. Poster below...
Continue reading "The Prodigy, System of a Down, 88 Fingers Louie, and more added to Riot Fest Chicago 2015 lineup"
June 19, 2015
We're about a month away from the 2015 Pitchfork Music Festival which happens July 17-19 in Union Park, which includes performances from Sleater-Kinney, Wilco, Future Islands, Run the Jewels, Courtney Barnett, Chance the Rapper, Panda Bear, Todd Terje & Olsens, Caribou and lots more across three stages. They've just announced schedule / set times, which you can peruse below.
Three-day passes are sold out, but daily tickets are still available.
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South Boston projects farther into the harbor than any other part of Boston except Logan Airport, and the views of the Harbor Islands from along Day Boulevard or Castle Island are expansive. At L Street and Day Boulevard is the L Street Beach, where an intrepid group called the L Street Brownies swims year-round, including a celebratory dip in the icy Atlantic every New Year's Day. Castle Island Park is no longer on an island, but Fort Independence, when it was built here in 1801, was separated from the mainland by water. The circular walk from the fort around Pleasure Bay, delightful on a warm summer day, has a stunning view of the city's skyline late at night. To get here by the T, take the Red Line to Broadway Station. Just outside the station, catch Bus 9 or 11 going east on Broadway, which takes you to within a block of the waterfront. From the waterfront park you can walk the loop, via piers, around the island.
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Product Features: The 250A max AC output allows this unit to weld up to 3/8" mild steel Uses 1/16", 5/64", 3/32" and 1/8" rods Ideal for farm, ranch, shop or garage work The integrated thermal overload with indicator light automatically shuts off to avoid overheating and the light turns off when welding can resume The heavy duty housing is welded, powder coated and assembled in the US Features convenient handles that are ideal for lifting as well as cord and cable storageIncludes: Welding leads 14' electrode holder Ground clamp with 6' cables and holders Quick connect dinse plugs
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Travis Knight (born 1973) is an American animator, film executive and former rapper, the son of Penelope "Penny" (Parks) and Phil Knight, the founder and chairman of Nike, Inc. He is the current president and CEO of LAIKA, Inc.
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Knight was born in Hillsboro, Oregon, a suburb of Portland; attending Jesuit High School, near Beaverton, Oregon. He is a graduate of Portland State University.[1] His grandfather was publisher William W. Knight.
As Chilly Tee, Knight released one rap album, 1993's Get Off Mine, and single of the same name. It featured production from The Bomb Squad and Knight wrote most of the lyrics. Knight is quoted in the Portland Monthly as saying, "Nobody bought that record... I liked making music, but I hated the performing part of it. I think there's a reason most animators are hidden behind giant curtains. They're not meant for the spotlight."[1]
Travis joined Will Vinton Studios, first as an intern.[1] He worked as a stop-motion animator, working on the Emmy Award-winning television series The PJs, produced with Eddie Murphy Productions and Imagine Entertainment, as well as the animated series Gary & Mike on UPN. He animated numerous television commercials and promo spots, including the NFL campaign on Fox. Knight served as Vice President of Animation and as Lead Animator on Coraline, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls. He also sits on the Laika board of directors.[2] For 2016, he is working on his directorial debut, titled Kubo and the Two Strings.[3]
Honors and awards[edit]
- Coraline, on which he was lead animator, was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award, for "Outstanding Animated Film".[4]
- In June 2007, Knight was honored by Animation Magazine as one of 12 "Rising Stars of Animation."[5]
- In October 2012 he was awarded the first Alumni Achievement Award from Portland State University (graduated in 1998).[6]
Personal life[edit]
Knight is married with two children.[7]
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Additional reading[edit]
- Ryan Ball, "Coraline Animator Travis Knight of LAIKA," Animation Magazine, May 7, 2007
- Josie Campbell, "LAIKA's Travis Knight Discusses ParaNorman and Standing Out," SpinOff Online, May 14, 2012
- Tom McNichol, "Hollywood Knights," Portland Monthly, February 2009.
- Chuck Salter, "The Knight's Tale," Fast Company, July 1, 2007
- "To Air Is Human," Vibe, October 1993, from Google Books
- ^ a b c McNichol, Tom. 2009. "Hollywood Knights," Portland Monthly, February. Accessed: May 24, 2012.
- ^ Salter, Chuck (July 1, 2007). "THE KNIGHTS' TALE". The Fast Company. Retrieved November 29, 2014.
- ^ McNary, Dave (December 22, 2014). "Laika, Focus Teaming on Animated 'Kubo and the Two Strings'". Variety. Retrieved December 23, 2014.
- ^ Laika, "Travis Knight, President & CEO". Accessed: May 24, 2012.
- ^ Ball, Ryan. 2007. "Coraline Animator Travis Knight of LAIKA," Animation Magazine, May 7. Accessed: May 24, 2012.
- ^ Simon Benson Awards. 2012. Accessed: October 10, 2012.
- ^ Giardina, Carolyn (February 8, 2013). "'ParaNorman's' Travis Knight: The Nike Scion Behind the Oscar-Nominated Film". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 29, 2014.
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Pitchfork Music Festival 2007: Sunday
Union Park, Chicago, IL: 15 July, 2007
By Pitchfork Staff , July 17, 2007
Junior Boys [Aluminum Stage; 3 p.m.]
Photo 1 by Kathryn Yu; photos 2 and 3 by Jason Bergman
Nomo [Balance Stage; 3:10 p.m.]
Photo 1 by Jason Bergman; photos 2-3 by Karra McDonald
Flatstock 13 Poster Convention
Photo 1 by Joseph Mohan; photo 2 by Jana Green
The Sea and Cake [Connector Stage; 4 p.m.]
Photos 1-2 by Jason Bergman; photo 3 by Jen Reel
Interview: Sam Prekop of The Sea and Cake | [Interview by Dave Maher]
Pitchfork: Is there an ideal setting for the Sea and Cake's music to be played, whether live or on record?
Sam Prekop: What's happened to me is I really just started driving a year ago, which is unusual, I realize, at my age. And of course I've heard other music in people's cars and stuff, but of my own power, I've been listening to not my own records but other records, and they do wield a whole different personality in a car. There's something I think will forever be intriguing and mysterious about moving landscape and sounds simultaneously. So I'll encourage people to try our stuff in a car.
Pitchfork: Do you ever intentionally craft songs to have that sort of movement or forward motion?
SP: I haven't, but I feel like I've heard people say things like that. "This stuff is great on the Sunday afternoon drive."
Pitchfork: There's definitely a summery, sunshine-y vibe to all of the stuff you guys do.
SP: I was pleased that today was so pleasant, weather-wise. I admit that we've [only] played outdoors a handful of times. This was really nice.
Pitchfork: Is there anyone else you've seen here that impressed you?
SP: I really liked Beach House. I also caught a little bit of Brightblack Morning Light. That was nice. I saw Clipse. I was right next to the stage, and that was really quite excellent.
Pitchfork: Are you a Clipse fan?
SP: I don't actually have their records, but I feel like I've heard a few tracks I liked.
Pitchfork: Are you a hip-hop fan at all?
SP: Yeah. I mean, casually. I'm no expert.
Pitchfork: What's your favorite hip-hop record?
SP: Well of course one of my earliest favorites is De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising . It was my introduction to hip-hop.
Pitchfork: Since you're a Chicago resident, Cubs or Sox?
SP: I grew up as a Cubs fan. I'm quite fairweather though.
Pitchfork: Where did you grow up?
SP: Sort of near Humboldt Park, a bit west. Armitage and Pulaski. So as a kid I went to Wrigley, fairly often, by bus. It was like $1.50 in the afternoon. Now I live on the South Side, and I'm somewhat irritated by the perception-- you know, the Cubs lose and people are still much more interested in the Cubs than the Sox, who win the World Series and they get no respect. I have to get behind the Sox, I think, just because they're underdogs even though they win.
Craig Taborn's Junk Magic [Balance Stage; 4:15 p.m.]
Photos 1-3 by Jason Bergman; photo 4 by Karra McDonald
Beer Tent
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Jamie Lidell [Aluminum Stage; 5 p.m.]
Photos by Jason Bergman
Interview: Jamie Lidell | [Interview by Dave Maher]
Pitchfork: What did you do last night?
Jamie Lidell : I raved until about seven in the morning. Got a few prostitutes, male and female, watched them doing loads of things.
Pitchfork: You just sort of sit back and pay them to do things?
JL: Yeah, pretty much. Through a smoky, two-way mirror kind of thing. I definitely did that and didn't go back to my hotel and sleep like a good boy.
Pitchfork: That's the best way for you to prepare for a set?
JL: Oh yeah, sure... voyeuristic pleasures. No, I just turned on the telly. I didn't even do that. I just went home and slept. I was fucking exhausted. I saw Yoko, and I thought that was it. That was all I needed. I love festivals, but it's sensory overload. You see one thing, and then on top of that, piles of more sound and vision, and then on top of that, a load more. The whole thing blurs into kind of a weird dream.
Pitchfork: How do you navigate?
JL: Navigate the dream?
Pitchfork: Yeah, how do you enjoy the experience?
JL: A dreamcatcher. I place ones around my sort of third eye. I don't know how you enjoy it. You just let it in, don't you? My memory is pretty bad.
Pitchfork: What made you realize that?
JL: Well it's quite easy to notice that you don't remember things. That's not true, actually. See, memory is a funny thing, isn't it? It's not like you have bad memory; it's more like the things you choose to remember perhaps aren't socially relevant.
Pitchfork: And you can remember things, but later, your new experiences taint the old memories.
JL: That should be it. Tainted memory... I like it. It's something like that. I don't know. I like to limit my experience is what I'm saying. Once I saw Yoko, I didn't really want to get prostitutes. I'm not that kind of freak. Not yet.
Pitchfork: Did you enjoy Yoko's set?
JL: I did. I loved it. I was loving the fact that all those people would listen to Yoko go right out there and just generally show people there's a lot more to expression than just writing a verse, chorus, verse, chorus. And it opens up everything for artists who want to step outside of the confines of regular pop nuggets, so I was loving her. Aside from the fact that she's this awesome presence. She's like a zen master, zen in her posture, zen in her manner, and zen in the way she was just fucking unpredictable.
Pitchfork: Is there anything else you're looking forward to?
JL: There's plenty of stuff going on today. I've never seen Klaxons, so I'm happy about that, representing for the UK. I always get a little bit weird before my shows.
Pitchfork: Is it nervousness?
JL: It's a kind of quiet I go into. I notice it's like [motions to chest] "restrict." I don't go out and rave crazily until my show, so I'm just in that kind of moment, so I probably won't check anything before the show. It's more about what happens after. Grab a drink, and see what comes into the head.
Pitchfork: Do you have anything special planned for your set?
JL: I'm cracking out some new songs today. I was contemplating it today. It's hard for me because I'm not really in a gig head. I've been just recording new album stuff.
Pitchfork: Is the new stuff like Multiply at all?
JL: I don't want to give too much away at this stage. I think people will appreciate the songwriting. I've got all my energy into that, and I'm not finished yet, so I don't even know myself if it will keep on that course or it will deviate wildly. I just concentrate on writing the songs, which I'm pretty content are really solid. I will play some today.
I've realized along with the memory thing that I'm pretty bad at multi-tasking; I've either got to do one thing or another. I've either got to do the album or do the gigs. Doing this is kind of going against my principles.
Pitchfork: Well we appreciate you breaking your principles for us.
JL: No, I'm really happy to be here, and I just hope it's gonna rock .
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This paper presents a text-independent speaker identification system based on Mel-Frequency Cepstrum Coefficient (MFCC) feature vectors and Hidden Markov Model (HMM) classifier. The implementation of the HMM is divided into two steps: feature extraction and recognition. In the feature extraction step, the paper reviews MFCCs by which the spectral features of speech signal can be estimated and shows how these features can be computed. In the recognition step, the theory and implementation of HMM are reviewed and followed by an explanation of how HMM can be trained to generate the model parameters using Forward-Backward algorithm and tested using forward algorithm. The HMM is evaluated using data of 40 speakers extracted from Switchboard corpus. Experimental results show an identification rate of about 84%.
World of Computer Science and Information Technology Journal (WCSIT) ISSN: 2221-0741 Vol. 2, No. 6, 203-208, 2012 Text-Independent Speaker Identification Using Hidden Markov Model Sayed Jaafer Abdallah Izzeldin Mohamed Osman Mohamed Elhafiz Mustafa College of Computer Science and College of Computer Science and College of Computer Science and Information Technology Information Technology Information Technology Sudan University of Science and Sudan University of Science and Sudan University of Science and Technology Technology Technology Khartoum, Sudan Khartoum, Sudan Khartoum, Sudan Abstract—This paper presents a text-independent speaker identification system based on Mel-Frequency Cepstrum Coefficient (MFCC) feature vectors and Hidden Markov Model (HMM) classifier. The implementation of the HMM is divided into two steps: feature extraction and recognition. In the feature extraction step, the paper reviews MFCCs by which the spectral features of speech signal can be estimated and shows how these features can be computed. In the recognition step, the theory and implementation of HMM are reviewed and followed by an explanation of how HMM can be trained to generate the model parameters using Forward- Backward algorithm and tested using forward algorithm. The HMM is evaluated using data of 40 speakers extracted from Switchboard corpus. Experimental results show an identification rate of about 84%. Keywords- Speaker identification; MFCC; HMM; Feature extraction; Forward-Backward; and Switchboard. The steps for identifying the unknown speaker are shown in I. INTRODUCTION Fig.1. The observation sequence O {o1o2 oT } is measured, Speaker recognition is the process of automatically via a feature extraction and vector quantization; followed by recognizing who is speaking on the basis of information calculation of likelihoods ( P O | s ,1 s 40 ) for all obtained from speech waves. This technique will make it possible to verify the identity of persons accessing systems, models, then we select the HMM model whose likelihood is that is, access control by voice, in various services. These services include voice dialing, banking transaction over highest, i.e., max P O | s .The likelihood probability is 1 s40 telephone network, telephone shopping, database access computed by using the forward algorithm. services, information and reservation system, voice mail, Where T is the length of the observation sequence, s, is security control for confidential information areas, and remote speaker index, and s , is speaker model. access to computers [1]. Speaker recognition is probably the only biometric which may be easily tested remotely through the telephone network, this makes it quite valuable in many real 1 HMM for Speaker 1 applications, and it will become more popular in the future [2]. MFCC P O | 1 Vector compute Forward Speech Speaker recognition is divided into speaker verification and Signal Quantization Probablity speaker identification. For speaker verification an identity is claimed by the user, and the decision required of the 2 HMM for Speaker 2 verification system is strictly binary; i.e., to accept or reject the claimed identity [3]. Speaker identification is the process of Observation compute Forward P O | 2 select Sequence Probablity Maximum determining which speaker in a group of known speakers most P O | s closely matches the unknown speaker [4]. O {o1o2 oT } The data used in the recognition is divided into text- 40 HMM for dependent and text-independent. In text-dependent, the speaker Speaker 40 is required to provide utterances having the same text for both P O | 40 training and recognition [1], whereas the text-independent compute Forward Probablity systems allow the user to utter any text [4]. Figure 1. Block diagram of HMM-Based Recognizer (after Rabiner[5]). 1 WCSIT 2 (6), 203 -208, 2012 II. MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRUM COEFFICIENTS N Mel f h - Mel f l f [ m] Mel-1 Mel f l + m , (4) A. Mel-Frequency Fs M Psychophysical studies have shown that human perception 0 m M 1 of the frequency content of sounds does not follow a liner scale. That research has led to the concept of the subjective where Mel( f ) is given by (1) and Mel 1 ( f ) is its inverse given frequency, i.e., the perceived frequency of sounds is defined as by (5)[11]. follows. For each sound with an actual frequency, f , measured f in Hz, a subjective frequency is measured on a scale called the Mel-1 f 700 exp 1 , (5) "Mel scale" [6]. Mel-frequency can be approximated by 1127 where f in Mel, is the subjective frequency (Mel-frequency). f Mel f 1127 ln 1 , (1) 700 We assume that the sampling frequency is Fs 8 kHz , the where f in Hz, is the actual frequency of the sound [7]. size of Fast Fourier Transform is N=512, and the number of filters M=20. B. Cepstrum Let fl Fs N 8000 512 15.6 Hz , and f h Fs 2 4 kHz Cepstrum is defined as the inverse Fourier transform of the logarithm of the magnitude of the Fourier transform [8]; i.e. be the lowest and highest frequencies of the filter. Using (4), the boundary points of the filter-bank Fig. 2 can be shown as: cepstrum ifft log fft signal , (2) Mel 15.6 + 512 where the function iff( ) returns the inverse discrete Fourier f [ m] Mel-1 Mel 4000 - Mel 15.6 . (6) transform, and the function fft( ) returns the discrete Fourier 8000 m 20 transform of signal. 0 m 21 The first application of cepstrum to speech processing The distance between two critical frequencies is approximately was proposed by Noll, who applied the cepstrum to determine 106 Mels, as in (7) and the width of the triangle is 212 Mels. the pitch period [8]. The cepstrum used also to distinguish underground nuclear explosions from earthquakes [9]. Mel 4000 - Mel 15.6 2146-25 = 106 (7) C. Triangular Filters Bank 20 20 The human ear acts essentially like a bank of overlapping D. Calculation of MFCCs band-pass filters [9] and human perception is based on Mel Given the DFT of the input signal, x[n] , scale. Thus, the approach to simulating the human perception is to build a filter bank with bandwidth given by the Mel scale N 1 and pass the magnitudes of the spectra, through these filters X a [k ] x[n] e j 2 nk / N , 0 k N (8) n 0 and obtain the Mel-frequency spectrum [2]. We define a triangular filter-bank with M filters (m=1, In most implementations of speech recognition, a short- 2,…,M) and N points Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) time Fourier analysis is done first, resulting in a DFT, X a [k ] for (k=1,2,…,N), where, H m [ k ] , is the magnitude (frequency the ath frame. Then the values of DFT are weighted by response) of the filter given by: triangular filters [7]. The result is called Mel-frequency power spectrum which is defined as 0, k f [ m 1] N S m X a [k ]2 H m [k ], 0 m M k f [ m 1] (9) , f [ m 1] k f [ m ] k 1 f [ m] f [ m 1] (3) H m [k ] where X a [k ]2 is called power spectrum. Finally, a discrete f [ m 1] k , f [ m ] k f [ m 1] f [ m 1] f [ m] cosine transform (DCT) of the logarithm of S m is computed to form the MFCCs as 0, k f [ m 1] M 1 Such filters compute the average spectrum around each mfcc[i ]= log S [m] cos i m- , (10) center frequency with increasing bandwidths, and they are m=1 2M displayed in Fig.2 [7, 10]. i 1, 2, , L Let f l and f h be the lowest and highest frequencies of the where L is the number of cepstrum coefficients[8]. filter-bank in Hz, Fs the sampling frequency in Hz, M the The DCT is related to the DFT, and in fact, may be written number of filters, and N the size of the Fast Fourier Transform. as function of the DFT. One of the main advantages of the The boundary points, shown in (4) are uniformly spaced in DCT in speech processing is that the transform coefficients are Mel-scale [7, 11]. not correlated (are not all of equal perceptual importance) [9]. 2 Filters for generating mel-frequency cepstrum coefficients WCSIT 2 (6), 203 -208, 2012 1 Feature Extraction Magnitude Speech Signal MFCC 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 Vector Frequency(Hz) Quantization Figure 2. Filter bank for generating Mel-Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients(after Davis and Mermelstein[12]). observation sequence III. HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS Forward ( A, B, ) Backward A. Definition of Hidden Markov Model algorithm HMM Hidden Markov model (HMM) describes a two-stage stochastic process. The first stage consists of a Markov chain. Figure 3. Steps used to estimate the parameters of HMMs. In the second stage then for every point in time t an output or emission (observation symbol) is generated. This sequence of emissions is the only thing that can be observed of the behavior The input speech signal is converted into vectors of MFCC. of the model. In contrast, the state sequence taken on during the Then the feature vectors are quantized into observation generation of the data cannot be observed [13]. sequences. The quantization is achieved by k-mean algorithm and classification procedure. B. Elements of an HMM An HMM for discrete symbol observations is characterized Vector quantization is required to map each continuous by the following: observation vector (MFCC) into a discrete codebook index (or symbols). The resulting symbols are new features which were N, the number of hidden states in the model. We label used as input to estimate the HMM parameters. the states as N {1, 2,..., N} , and denote the state at time Finally, the models parameters are estimated from the t as qt [5]. observation sequences using the Forward-Backward Algorithm. M, the number of distinct observation symbols per state. We denote the symbols as V {v1 , v2 ,..., vM } [14]. D. Forward and Backward Algorithm Consider the forward variable t i defined as State transition probability distribution, A {aij } ,where t i P o1o2 , ot , qt i | (14) aij P[qt 1 j | qt i ], 1 i, j N (11) That is, the probability of the partial observation sequence, o1o2 , ot (from 1 until time t) and state i at time t, The observation symbol probability distribution in state given the model [9]. We can solve for t i using the j, B {bi (k )} , where following forward algorithm: bi (k ) P[ot vk | qt i], 1 k M (12) The initial state distribution, { i } , where 1. Initialization i P[qt i], 1 i N (13) 1 i i bi o1 , 1 i N (15) 2. Induction For convenience, we use the compact notation, t 1 j t i aij bj ot 1 , N ( A, B, ) to indicate the complete parameter set of the (16) i 1 model [6]. 1 t T 1, 1 j N C. Training the HMMs 3. Termination For each speaker s in the database, we must build an N HMM s , i.e. we estimate the model parameters P O | T i , (17) i 1 ( A, B, ) that maximize the likelihood of the training dataset. The steps for estimating the model parameters Figure 4. Forward Algorithm (After Rabiner and Juang[6]). ( A, B, ) are illustrated in Fig. 3. 3 WCSIT 2 (6), 203 -208, 2012 where i is an initial transition probability, aij is a transition IV. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS probability from state i to state j, and b j ot 1 is probability of A. Speech Database observing the symbol ot 1 from state j. We used the Switchboard [15] Telephone Speech Corpus which was designed and recorded for text-independent speaker Consider the backward variable t i defined as identification and speech recognition. For our experiments, we selected a subset from the Switchboard Corpus. This subset t i P ot 1ot 2 , oT ,| qt i, , (18) contains 40 speakers (22 males+18 females), with 20 utterances per speaker. About 70% of the utterances were selected that is, the probability of the partial observation sequence, randomly to form the training dataset, and the remaining ot 1ot 2 , oT (from t+1 until time T) given state i at time t and utterances were used as the testing dataset, see table I. The the model [9]. We can solve for t i using the backward duration of each utterance was 3.2 seconds, see Fig. 6, i.e., the size=50 KB (The speech was recorded using a sampling rate of algorithm shown in Fig. 5. 8000 Hz with 16 bits per sample). 1. Initialization Fig. 6 shows the waveform corresponding to the utterance, "Computer here at the house and I made a Lotus spreadsheet" T i 1, 1 i N (19) as spoken by a female speaker. 2. Induction B. Feature Extraction N We used a population of 40 speakers, with 20 utterances for t i aijbj ot 1 t 1 j , (20) each. Each utterance was divided into 198 frames. The average j 1 length of each frame was about 32 milliseconds (256 samples). t T 1, T 2, ,1, 1 i N Then MFCC were calculated for each frame. After performing feature extraction for each speaker, it was determined that each Figure 5. Backward Algorithm (After Rabiner and Juang [6]). speaker had at least 3960 MFCC feature vectors. E. Estimating the Parameters ( A, B, ) C. Vector Quantization For quantization purpose, the training vectors were used to The model parameters can be estimated as follows [5]: generate a codebook of length 128 (A codebook of length less i 1 i (21) than 128 produced degraded results). The codebook was generated by K-mean clustering algorithm. Finally, both = expected number of times in state i training and testing vectors were quantized to generate the observation sequences to be input into the HMMs. T 1 t i , j (22) a t 1 T 1 t i ij TABLE I. SIZE OF THE DATASET USED IN THE EXPERIMENTS. t 1 Number of Numbers of utterance per speaker Total expected number of transitions from state i to state j Speakers expected number of transitions from state i Training 14 560 t i T 40 Testing 6 240 t 1 Total 20 800 ot vk (23) b k t i i T t 1 Compute here at the house and i made a Lotus spreadsheet. 0.2 expected number of times in state i and observing vk 0.1 expected number of times in state i Amplitude Using the forward t i and backward t i variables [5], 0 t i, j , t i -0.1 are defined as -0.2 t i, j t i aijbj ot 1 t 1 j 0 0.4 0.8 1.2 1.6 2 2.4 2.8 3.2 3.5 (24) Time(Sec) P O | Figure 6. Speech Waveform sampled at 8 kHz. i t i t i t (25) P O | 4 WCSIT 2 (6), 203 -208, 2012 D. Structure of HMMs 100 90 For training experiments, all the training data was used to 80 train 40 hidden Markov based speaker models. All of the 40 Identification Rate(%) 70 models had the same topology 8-states, left-to-right models as 60 shown in Fig. 7. Each model , had a transition probability 50 matrix A {aij } , an initial state probability matrix { i } , and 40 30 an observation probability matrix B {bi (k )} . 20 10 The issue of the number of states to use in each model leads 0 to many ideas. Rabiner and Juang[6] proposed 5 to 10 states for 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 111213 14151617 181920 212223 24252627 282930 31323334 353637 383940 41 Speaker index each model. The training sequences of the vector quantization were used to train the models by the Forward-Backward Figure 8. Classification results for all the speakers. algorithm. After performing the training experiments for each speaker, it was determined that each speaker had model parameters s ( A, B, ) . 100 Identification Performance(%) E. Classification Result 95 The evaluation of HMMs was performed by using the forward algorithm. The likelihood probability was computed 90 for all models, and then we selected the HMM model with the highest likelihood. 85 1) Classification Rate To determine the classification rate, this experiment was 80 performed using all the dataset (i.e. a population of 40 speakers). An average classification rate was 80% for all the 75 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 speakers. Number of Speakers The classification rates are summarized in Fig.8. The figure plots the classification rates for all the speakers. We Figure 9. Identification rate as a function of the number of speakers. notice that the classification rate of speaker#1 is 66% and classification rate of speaker#2, 3,…,39, 40 is %100. 3) Comparing HMM with LDA and MLP Speaker#22 has the lowest classification rate of 33%. This experiment was used to compare three classifiers: 2) Population Size Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Multilayer Perceptron This experiment was used to determine the effect of Network (MLP) and Hidden Markov Model (HMM). Mel- population size on identification performance. We used 9 Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (MFCC) and Linear independent datasets with following sizes: 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, Predictive Coding Coefficients (LPCC) parameters were used 30, 35, and 40 speakers. The result is shown in Fig. 9. This to test the performance for each of the three classifiers. The result indicates that as the size of the population increases, the experiment was performed using 3 speakers randomly selected identification rate decreases. This fact is a strong indicator that from the dataset. successful speaker identification cannot be performed on large Table II shows the identification rates of the 3 speakers for populations, such as the population of an entire city, state or the three classifiers. It can be seen that, the Hidden Markov country. Model (HMM) classifier outperforms the Linear Discriminant Markov Model Analysis (LDA) and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP). It can also a55 be seen that the MFCC gives higher identification rates than the a11 a22 a33 a44 a66 a77 a88 LPCC. 1 a12 a23 a34 a45 a56 a67 a78 TABLE II. IDENTIFICATION RESULTS USING LDA,MLP AND HMM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Classifier a81 Vector Parameter Linear Discriminant Multilayer Hidden Analysis Perceptron Markov Model MFCC 70.5% 82.1% 100% b1 ( k ) b2 (k ) b3 (k ) b4 (k ) b5 (k ) b6 (k ) b7 (k ) b8 (k ) LPCC 55.6% 75.1% 94% Observation Probability Figure 7. HMM-Model, , used for speaker identification. 5 WCSIT 2 (6), 203 -208, 2012 V. CONCLUSIONS [15] R. P. Agency, "Linguistic Data Consortuim," University of Pennsylvania, 19 Jul 2011. [Online]. Available: In this paper, we have attempted to describe a Text- http://www.ldc.upenn.edu. [Accessed 9 May 2012]. Independent Speaker Identification System based on MFCC . feature vectors and HMMs recognizer. We have extracted the feature vectors such as LPCC and MFCC. Then we have used the K-mean clustering algorithm to construct a codebook of length 128. Finally we have developed 40 Models. We have achieved identification rate of 80% using all the speakers in the dataset. Also we have tested the effect of population size on identification rate. The results have shown that, large population produces poor performance. Also we have compared between HMM, LDA and MLP. The experiments show that HMM classifier with MFCC feature vectors gives better classification rate. VI. FUTURE RESEARCH The identification rate achieved in this paper was carried out by using a close-set database. In the future research, we will apply an open-set database since an open-set may cause the experiment to be similar to real-life situations. We will study and use Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) to estimate the probability function of the feature vectors. Future work will be focused on other models such as Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier or Kernel method. REFERENCES [1] C. H. Lee, F. K. Soong and K. K. Paliwal, Automatic Speech and Speaker Recognition:Advanced Topics, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996. [2] H. Beigi, Fundamentals of Speaker Recognition, New York: Springer Science and Business Media, Inc, 2011. [3] L. R. Rabiner and R. W. Schafer, Digital Processing of Speech Signals, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1978. [4] R. L. Klevans and R. D. Rodman, Voice Recognition, Boston: Artech House, 1997. [5] L. R. Rabiner, "A Tutorial on Hidden Markov Models and Selected Applications in Speech Recognition," Proceedings of IEEE, vol. 77, no. 2, pp. 257-286, Feb. 1989. [6] L.R.Rabiner and B. Juang, Fundamentals of Speech Recognition, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1993. [7] X. Huang, A. Acero and H. Hon, Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm, and System Development, New Jersy: Prentice- Hall,Inc, 2001. [8] L. R. Rabiner and R. W. Schafer, Theory and Applications of Digital Speech Processing, New Jersey: Pearson Higher Education, 2011. [9] M. R. Schroeder, Computer Speech: Recognition, Compression, Synthesis, Berlin: Springer-Verlag., 2004. [10] S. Chakroborty, A. Roy and G. Saha, "Improved Closed Set Text- Independent Speaker Identification by combining MFCC with Evidence from Flipped Filter Banks," International Journal of Information and Communication Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp.114-121, 2008. [11] G. Ananthakrishnan, "Music and Speech Analysis Using the 'Bach' Scale Filter-Bank", M.S. thesis, Dept. Elec. Eng., Indian Institute of Science., Bangalore, India., April 2007. [12] S. B. Davis and P. 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"The crash rate at the intersections between Mangati Rd and Mahoetahi Rd is one of the worst in the country and we need to make a positive change to improve its safety," NZTA regional highways manager David McGonigal said in announcing the reduction yesterday.
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Waitara resident Peter Bingham, former Taranaki Daily News associate editor, said he had used the road regularly for 30 years and describes the intersections with SH3 as "lethal", including his own at Raleigh St.
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"The needless deaths and lifelong injuries and disabilities from these crashes do not need to happen and these are mostly from simple mistakes," Mr Richardson said.
Those who felt the speed was too slow should reflect on those families who had experienced loss from crashes along that stretch of highway.
"Given the small loss of time resulting from the lower speed versus the reduced likelihood and severity of crashes, we believe the change will be well worthwhile," Mr Richardson said.
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Good luck. I have PCOS too. It sucks, it definately makes everything so much harder than it should be. Hang in there!
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Good luck and keep your chin up. I know exactly how you feel....we've been TTC #1 since 1/09 and I don't have periods on my own. I finally had 2 consecutives periods (Jan & Feb) and now I'm 20+ days late and BFN :( Just went I thought I was going to have cycles on my own. If yo need anyone to talk to I'm always here!!
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I am right there with you.. I also have PCOS and we actually was able to conceive triplets from injectables. I too don't get a period on my own. It really does suck, but I lost all three babies one by one to have my daughter and she passed a wk later. It's very hard having PCOS.. I did IVF that didn't work and IUI about 4 of them .. I only have one tube left. I fee like a wreck.. But yes hang in there our time has to come soon it just has too. I am going on my 8th yr of trying... :(
I feel your pain... I went with everyone else's suggestions to stop taking birth control a few months before we actually tried. By the time we started trying, my cycles became non-existent. Just keep your head high and give it your best shot. My doctor put me on Clomid last month saying he didn't think it would work, and I ovulated the first try. It can happen- and honestly, proving people wrong especially doctors, feels SO good! :)


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Crafting is my hobby. Most of all I adore working with different fabrics, needle felting and wet felting.
Most of all I adore needle felting and wet felting. I discovered felting in 2008, and since then been fascinated by this more and more.
I like a combination of wool and beads, unusual combinations of materials. It is difficult for me to stop if I started to create a new ornament or figurine. Sometimes I sit with my work until late at night.
And what does "rokdarbi4u2" mean?
"Rokdarbi" is a Latvian word which means "crafts, handmade"; and 4u2 is a shortening from English "for you, two", as I have my first shop on Etsy with the name "rokdarbi4u" with felted and felt jewelry and gifts. So, as you can see, the full name of my shop will be "crafts for you, 2".
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- Joined July 12, 2009
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wool, merino wool, beads, organza, satin, rayon, jeans, gemstone beads, cotton
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- Riga, Latvia