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In a computerized method for processing speech signals, first vectors representing clean speech signals are stored in a vector codebook. Second vectors are determined from dirty speech signals. Noise and distortion parameters are estimated from the second vectors. Third vectors are predicated, based on estimated noise and distortion parameters. The third vectors are used to correct the first vectors. The third vectors can then be applied to the second vectors to produce corrected vectors. The corrected vectors and the first vectors can be compared to identify first vectors which resemble the corrected vectors.
1. A computerized method for processing speech signals, comprising:
storing first vectors representing clean speech signals in a vector codebook;
determining second vectors from dirty speech signals;
estimating environmental parameters from the second vectors;
predicting third vectors based on the estimated environmental parameters to correct the first vectors;
applying the third vectors to the second vectors to produce corrected vectors; and
comparing the corrected vectors and the first vectors to identify first vectors which resemble the corrected vectors;
wherein said method further comprises one of the following two steps: (1) using a search algorithm to determine a hypothesis sequence of phonemes of said first vectors that is statistically closest to a sequence of said corrected vectors, and (2) determining mean and covariance for predicted statistics of said dirty speech signals and measuring likelihood that an utterance was generated by a particular speaker based upon an expectation maximization process.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the third vectors are stored in the vector codebook.
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
determining a distance between a particular corrected vector and a corresponding first vector, the distance representing a likelihood that the corresponding first vector resembles the particular corrected vector.
4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:
maximizing the likelihood that the particular corrected vector resembles the coresponding first vector.
5. The method of claim 3 wherein the likelihood that the corresponding first vector resembles the particular corrected vector is a posterior probability that a particular third vector is represented by the corresponding first vector.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the comparing step uses a statistical comparison.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein the statistical comparison is based on a minimum mean square error.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein the first vectors represent phonemes of the clean speech, and the comparison step determines the content of the dirty speech to perform speech recognition.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein the first vectors represent models of clean speech of known speakers, and the comparison step determines the identity of an unknown speaker producing the dirty speech signals.
10. The method of claim 1 wherein the dirty speech signals are produced continuously.
11. The method of claim 1 wherein the third vectors are dynamically adapted as the environmental parameters alter the dirty speech signals over time.
12. The method of claim 1 wherein the environmental parameters characterize noise and distortion by the variables Q, H, and Σn.
The present invention relates generally to speech processing, and more particularly to compensating digitized speech signals with data derived from the acoustic environment in which the speech signals are generated and communicated.
Over the next years, speech is expected to become one of the most used input modalities for interacting with computer systems. In addition to keystrokes, mouse clicks, and visible body gestures, speech can improve the way that users interact with computerized systems. Processed speech can be recognized to discern what we say, and even who we are. Speech signals are increasingly being used to gain access to computer systems, and to operate the systems using voiced commands and information.
If the speech signals are "clean," and produced in an acoustically pristine environment, then the task of processing the signals to produce good results is relatively straightforward. However, as we use speech in a larger variety of different environments to interact with systems, for example, offices, homes, roadside telephones, or for that matter anywhere where we can carry a cellular phone, compensating for acoustical differences in these environments becomes a dominant problem in order to provide robust speech processing.
Generally, two types of effects can cause clean speech to become "dirty." The first effect is distortion of the speech signals themselves. The acoustic environment can distort audio signals in an innumerable number of ways. Signals can unpredictably be delayed, advanced, duplicated to produce echoes, change in frequency and amplitude, and so forth. In addition, different types of telephones, microphones and communication lines can introduce yet another set of different distortions.
The second soiling effect is "noise." Noise is due to additional signals in the speech frequency spectrum that are not part of the original speech. Noise can be introduced by other people talking in the background, office equipment, cars, planes, the wind, and so forth. Thermal noise in the communications channels can also add to the speech signals. The problem of processing dirty speech is compounded by the fact that the distortions and noise can change dynamically over time.
Generally, robust speech processing includes the following steps. In a first step, digitized speech signals are partitioned into time aligned portions (frames) where acoustic features can generally be represented by linear predictive coefficient (LPC) "feature" vectors. In a second step, the vectors can be cleaned up using environmental acoustic data. That is, processes are applied to the vectors representing dirty speech signals so that a substantial amount of the noise and distortion is removed. The cleaned-up vectors, using statistical comparison methods, more closely resemble similar speech produced in a clean environment. Then in a third step, the cleaned feature vectors can be presented to a speech processing engine which determines how the speech is going to be used. Typically, the processing relies on the use of statistical models or neural networks to analyze and identify speech signal patterns.
In an alternative approach, the feature vectors remain dirty. Instead, the pre-stored statistical models or networks which will be used to process the speech are modified to resemble the characteristics of the feature vectors of dirty speech. This way a mismatch between clean and dirty speech, or their representative feature vectors can be reduced.
By applying the compensation on the processes (or speech processing engines) themselves, instead on the data, i.e., the feature vectors, the speech analysis can be configured to solve a generalized maximum likelihood problem where the maximization is over both the speech signals and the environmental parameters. Although such generalized processes have improved performance, computationally, they tend to be more intensive. Consequently, prior art applications requiring real-time processing of dirty speech signals are more inclined to condition the signal, instead of the processes, leading to less than satisfactory results.
Compensated speech processing has become increasingly more sophisticated in recent years. Some of the earliest processes use ceptral mean normalization (CMN) and relative spectral (RASTA) methods. These methods are two versions of the same mean substraction method. There, the idea is to subtract an estimate of the measured speech from incoming frames of speech. Classical CMN subtracts the mean representing all of the measured speech from each speech frame, while RASTA subtracts a "lag" estimate of the mean from each frame.
Both the CMN and the RASTA methods compensate directly for differences in channels characteristics resulting in improved performance. Because both methods use a relatively simple implementation, they are frequently used in many speech processing systems.
A second class of efficient compensation methods relies on stereo recordings. One recording is taken with a high performance microphone for which the speech processing system has already been trained, another recording is taken with a target microphone to be adapted to the system. This approach can be used to provide a boot-strap estimate of speech statistics for retraining. Stereo-pair methods that are based on simultaneous recordings of both the clean and dirty speech are very useful for this problem.
In a probabilistic optimum filtering (POF) method, a vector codebook (VQ) is used. The VQ describes the distribution of mel-frequency ceptral coefficients (MFCC) of clean speech combined with a codeword dependent multi-dimensional transversal filter. The purpose of the filter is to acquire temporal correlations between frames of speech displaced in time. POF "learns" the parameters of each frame dependent VQ filter (a matrix) and each environment using a minimization of a least-squares error criteria between the predicted and measured speech.
Another known method, Fixed Codeword Dependent Ceptral Normalization (FCDCN), similar to the POF method, also uses a VQ representation for the distribution of the clean speech ceptrum vectors. This method computes codeword dependent correction vectors based on simultaneously recorded speech. As an advantage, this method does not require a modeling of the transformation from clean to dirty speech. However, in order to achieve this advantage, stereo recording is required.
Generally, these speech compensation methods do not make any assumptions about the environment because the effect of the environment on the ceptral vectors is directly modeled using stereo recordings.
In one method, Codeword Dependent Ceptral Normalization (CDCN), the ceptra of clean speech signals are modeled using a mixture of Gaussian distributions where each Gaussian can be represented by its mean and covariance. The CDCN method analytically models the effect of the environment on the distribution of the clean speech ceptra.
In a first step of the method, the values of the environmental parameters (noise and distortion) are estimated to maximize the likelihood of the observed dirty ceptrum vectors. In a second step, a minimum mean squared estimation (MMSE) is applied to discover the unobserved ceptral vectors of the clean speech given the ceptral vectors of the dirty speech.
The method typically works on a sentence-by-sentence or batch basis, and, therefore, needs fairly long samples (e.g., a couple of seconds) of speech to estimate the environmental parameters. Because of the latencies introduced by the batching process, this method is not well suited for real-time processing of continuous speech signals.
A parallel combination method (PMC) assumes the same models of the environment as used in the CDCN method. Assuming perfect knowledge of the noise and channel distortion vectors, the method tries to transform the mean vectors and the covariance matrices of the acoustical distribution of hidden Markov models (HHM) to make the HHM more similar to an ideal distribution of the ceptra of dirty speech.
Several possible alternative techniques are known to transform the mean vectors and covariance matrices. However, all these variations of the PMC require prior knowledge of noise and channel distortion vectors. The estimation is generally done beforehand using different approximations. Typically, samples of isolated noise are required to adequately estimate the parameters of the PMC. These methods have shown that distortion in the channel effects the mean of the measured speech statistics, and that the effective SNR at a particular frequency controls the covariance of the measured speech.
Using a vector Taylor series (VTS) method for speech compensation, this fact can be exploited to estimate the dirty speech statistics given clean speech statistics. The accuracy of VTS method depends on the size of the higher order terms of the Talyor series approximation. The higher order terms are controlled by the size of the covariance of the speech statistics.
With VTS, the speech is modeled using a mixture of Gaussian distributions. By modeling the speech as a mixture, the covariance of each individual Gaussian is smaller than the covariance of the entire speech. In order for VTS to work, it can be shown that the mixture model is necessary to solve the maximization step. This is related to the concept of sufficient richness for parameter estimation.
In summary, the best known compensation methods base their representations for the probability density function p(x) of clean speech feature vectors on a mixture of Gaussian distributions. The methods work in batch mode, i.e., the methods needs to "hear" a substantial amount of signal before any processing can be done. The methods usually assume that the environmental parameters are deterministic, and therefore, are not represented by a probability density function. Lastly, the methods do not provide for an easy way to estimate the covariance of the noise. This means that the covariance must first be learned by heuristic methods which are not always guaranteed to converge.
It is desired to provide a speech processing system where clean speech signals can naturally be represented. In addition, the system should work as a filter so that continuous speech can be processed as it is received without undue delays. Furthermore, the filter should adapt itself as environmental parameters which turn clean speech dirty change over time.
Provided is a computerized method for compensating continuous dirty speech signals using estimations of environmental noise and distortion parameters Q, H, and Σn. In the method, first feature vectors representing clean speech signals are stored in a vector codebook. Second vectors are determined for dirty speech signals including noise and distortion parameterized by Q, H, and Σn.
The noise and distortion parameters are estimated from the second vectors. Using the estimated parameters, third vectors are estimated. The third vectors are applied to the second vectors to produce corrected vectors which can be statistically compared to the first vectors to identify first vectors which best resemble the corrected vectors.
In one aspect of the invention the third vectors can be stored in the vector codebook. During the comparison, a distance between a particular corrected vectors and a corresponding first vectors can be determined. The distance represents a likelihood that the first vector resembles the corrected vector. Furthermore, the likelihood that the particular corrected vector resembles the coresponding first vector is maximized.
In a speech recognition system, the corrected vectors can be used to determine the phonetic content of the dirty speech to perform speech recognition. In a speaker identification system, the corrected vectors can be used to determine the identity of an unknown speaker producing the dirty speech signals.
In another aspect of the invention, the third vectors are dynamically adapted as the noise and distortion parameters alter the dirty speech signals over time.
FIG. 1 is a flow diagram of a speech processing system according to the invention;
FIG. 2 is a flow diagram of a process to extract feature vectors from continuous speech signals;
FIG. 3 is a flow diagram for an estimation maximization process;
FIG. 4 is a flow diagram for predicting vectors;
FIG. 5 is a flow diagram for determining differences between vectors;
FIG. 6 is a flow diagram for a process for recognizing speech;
FIG. 7 is a graph comparing the accuracy of speech recognition methods;
FIG. 8 is a flow diagram of a process for recognizing speakers; and
FIG. 9 is a graph comparing the accuracy of speaker recognition methods.
FIG. 1 is an overview of an adaptive compensated speech processing system 100 according to a preferred embodiment of the invention. During a training phase, clean speech signals 101 are measured by a microphone (not shown). Hereinafter, clean speech means speech which is free of noise and distortion.
The clean speech 101 is digitized 102, measured 103, and statistically modeled 104. The modeling statistics p(x) 105 that are representative of the clean speech 101 are stored in a memory as entries of a vector codebook (VQ) 106 for use by a speech processing engine 110. After training, the system 100 can be used to process dirty speech signals.
During this phase, speech signals x(t) 121 are measured using a microphone which has a power spectrum Q(ω) 122 relative to the microphone used during the above training phase. Due to environmental conditions extant during actual use, the speech x(t) 121 is dirtied by unknown additive stationary noise and unknown linear filtering, e.g., distortion n(t) 123. These additive signals can be modeled as white noise passing through a filter with a power spectrum H(ω) 124.
Note, adding the noise and distortion here (125), or before the signals x(t) 121 are measured by the microphone are structurally equivalent. In any case, real-world environmental conditions result in dirty speech signals z(t) 126. The dirty speech signals 126 are processed by a digital signal processor (DSP) 200.
FIG. 2 shows the details of the DSP 200. The DSP 200 selects (210) time-aligned portions of the dirty signals z(t) 126, and multiplies the portion by a well known window function, e.g., a Hamming window. A fast Fourier transform (FFT) is applied to windowed portions 220 in step 230 to produce "frames" 231. In a preferred implementation, the selected digitized portions include 410 samples to which a 410 point Hamming window is applied to yield 512 point FFT frames 231.
Next, the frequency power spectrum statistics for the frames 231 are determined in step 240 by taking the square magnitude of the FFT result. Half of the FFT terms can be dropped because they are redundant leaving 256 point power spectrum estimates. In step 250, the spectrum estimates are rotated into a mel-frequency domain by multiplying the estimates by a mel-frequency rotation matrix. Step 260 takes the logarithm of the rotated estimates to yield a feature vector representation 261 for each of the frames 231.
Further possible processing in step 270 can include applying a discrete cosine transform (DCT) to the mel-frequency log spectrum to determine the mel cepstrum. The mel frequency transformation is optional, without it, the result of the DCT is simply termed the cepstrum.
During the processing, the window function moves along the measured dirty signals z(t) 126. The steps of the DSP 200 are applied to the signals at each new location of the Hamming window. The net result is a sequence of feature vectors z(ω, T) 128. The vectors 128 can be processed by the engine 110 of FIG. 1. The vectors 128 are statistically compared with entries of the VQ 107 to produce results 199.
It can be shown that noise and channel distortion effect the vectors 128 as:
z(ω,T)=log (exp (Q(ω)+x(ω,T))+exp (H(ω)+n(ω,T))) Eg. 1!
where x(ω,T) are the underlying clean vectors that would have been measured without noise and channel distortion, and n(ω,T) are the statistics if only the noise and distortion were present.
Without the noise, the power spectrum Q(ω) 122 of the channel produces a linear distortion on the measured signals x(t) 121. The noise n(t) 123 is linearly distorted in the power spectrum domain, but non-linearly in the log spectral domain. Lastly note, the engine 110 has access to a statistical representation of x(ω,T), e.g., VQ 107. The present invention uses this information to estimate the noise and distortion.
The effect of the noise and distortion on the speech statistics can be determined by expanding Equation 1 about the mean of the clean speech vectors using a first order Taylor series expansion of:
E z!=Q+E x!+log (1+1/b)
to produce:
Σz=diag(b/b+1)Σx diag(b/b+1)+diag (1/b+1)ΣN diag (1/b+1) Eq. 2!
Here, the dependence of the terms on frequency and time have been dropped for clarity. This shows that the effect of distortion depends on the signal-to-noise ratio, which can be expressed as:
b=exp(Q+E x!-H-E n!) Eq. 3!
Equations 2 and 3 show that the channel linearly shifts the mean of the measured statistics, decreases the signal-to-noise ratio, and decreases the covariance of the measured speech because the covariance of the noise is smaller than the covariance of the speech.
Based on this analysis, the present invention uniquely combines the prior art methods of VTS and PMC, described above, to enable a compensated speech processing method which adapts to dynamically changing environmental parameters that can dirty speech.
The invention uses the idea that the training speech can naturally be represented by itself as vectors p(x) 105 for the purpose of environmental compensation. Accordingly, all speech is represented by the training speech vector codebook (VQ) 107. In addition, differences between clean training speech and actual dirty speech are determined using an Expectation Maximization (EM) process. In the EM process described below, an expectation step and a maximization step are iteratively performed to converge towards an optimal result during a gradient ascent.
The stored training speech p(x) 105 can be expressed as: ##EQU1## where the collection {vi } represents the codebook for all possible speech vectors, and Pi is the prior probability that the speech was produced by the corresponding vector.
Although this representation may not be appropriate for speech recognition, unless the size of the codebook is very large, it is an excellent representation for robustness parameters estimation and compensation. This is true because a robust speech processing system only needs to estimate some overall parametric statistic which can be estimated from the distribution using the EM process.
As shown in FIG. 3, the compensation process 300 comprises three major stages. In a first stage 310 using the EM process, parameters of the noise and (channel) distortion are determined so that when the parameters are applied to the vector codebook 107, the codebook maximizes the likelihood that the transformed codebook best represents the dirty speech.
In a second stage 320 after the EM process has converged, a transformation of the codebook vector 107 is predicted given the estimated environmental parameters. The transformation can be expressed as a set of correction vectors.
During a third stage 330, the corrected vectors are applied to the feature vectors 128 of the incoming dirty speech to make them more similar, in a minimum mean square error (MMSE) sense, to the clean vectors stored in the VQ 107.
As an advantage, the present compensation process 300 is independent of the processing engine 110, that is, the compensation process operates on the dirty feature vectors, correcting the vectors so that they closely resemble vectors derived from clean speech not soiled by noise and distortion in the environment.
The details of these stages are now discussed in greater detail. As shown in FIG. 4, the EM stage iteratively determines the three parameters {Q, H, Σn } that specify the environment. The first step 410 is a predictive step. The current values of {Q, H, Σn } are used to map each vector in the codebook 107 to a predicted correction vector V'i using Equation 1, for each: ##EQU2## Here, the value E n! has been absorbed in the value of H. The first derivative of this relationship with respect to noise is: ##EQU3## where δ(i-j) is the Kronker delta.
Each predicted codeword vector V'i is then extended 420 by its prior which is transformed as: ##EQU4## Each dirty speech vector is also augmented 430 by a zero. In this way, it is possible to directly compare augmented dirty vectors and augmented V'i codewords. The fully extended vector V'i has the form: ##EQU5## and the augmented dirty vector has the form: ##EQU6##
The resulting set of extended correction vectors can then be stored (440) in the vector codebook VQ. For example, each entry of the codebook can have a current associated extended correction vector reflecting the current state of the acoustic environment. The extended correction vectors have the property that -1/2 times the distance between a codebook vector and a corresponding dirty speech vector 128 can be used as the likelihood that a dirty vector zt is represented a codeword vector vi.
FIG. 5 shows the steps 500 of the expectation stage in greater detail. During this stage, the best match between one of the incoming dirty vectors 128 and a (corrected) codebook vector is determined, and statistics needed for the maximization stage are accumulated. The process begins by initializing variables L, N, n, Q, A, and B to zero in step 501.
As shown in FIG. 5 for each incoming dirty vector 128, the following steps are performed. First in step 502 determine an entry in the new vector codebook VQ(ze) which best resembles the transformed vector. Note, that the intial correction vectors in the codebook associated with the clean vectors can be zero, or estimated. The index to this entry can be expressed as:
j(i)-arg min k!|VQ(ze k), z't, 0!|2.
In addition, the squared distance (d(z'i) ) between the best codebook vector and the incoming vector is also returned in step 503. This distance, a statistical difference between the selected codebook vector and the dirty vector, is used to determine likelihood of the measured vector as:
Note, as stated above, the resulting likelihood is the posterior probability that the measured dirty vector is in fact represented by the codebook vector. Next, the likelihood l(zi) is accumulated(504) as:
L=L+l(zi), and the residual vi is determined in step 505. In step 506, the residual is whitened with a Gaussian distribution.
Next, at step (507) are computed the product of the residual, and the first derivative with respect to the noise α←F(j(i))v. This operation can be done using a point-wise multiplication since F(j(i)) is a diagonal matrix.
This is followed by determining (508) the averaging ratios where ri =n/(n+1) and r2 =1/(n+1). Here, n is the total number of measured vectors used so far during the iterations. The products determined in step 507 are accumulated in step 509. The differences between the products of step 509, and the residual are accumulated in step 510 as:
Qs←ri Qs+r2 (v*i -α). Then in step 511, the covariance of the noise is re-estimated. Finally in step 512 the variable A is accumulated as:
A←r1 A+r2 (F1 (j(i)T Σn -1 F1 (j(i))), and
the variable B as:
B←r1 B+r2 Σn -1 F1 (j(i)).
The accumulated variables of the current estimation iteration are then used in the maximization stage. The maximization involves solving the set of linear equations: ##EQU7## where ΣQ and ΣN represent a priori covariances assigned to the Q and N parameters.
The resulting value is then added to the current estimation of the environmental parameters. After the EM process has converged, which can be determined by monitoring the likelihood, the final two phases can be performed depending on the desired speech processing application. The first step predicts the statistics of the dirty speech given the estimated parameters of the environment from the EM process. This is equivalent to the prediction step of the EM process. The second step uses the predicted statistics to estimate the MMSE correction factors.
Speech Recognition
As shown in FIG. 6, a first application where environmentally compensated speech can be used is in a speech recognition engine. Here, it is desired to determine what is being said. This application would be useful to recognize speech acquired over a cellular phone network where noise and distortion tend to be higher than in plain old telephone services (POTS). This application can also be used in speech acquired over the World Wide Web where the speech can be generated in environments all over the world using many different types of hardware systems and communications lines.
As shown in FIG. 6, dirty speech signals 601 are digitally processed (610) to generate a temporal sequence of dirty feature vectors 602. Each vector statistically represents a set of acoustic features found in a segment of the continuous speech signals. In step 620, the dirty vectors are cleaned to produce "cleaned" vectors 603 as described above. That is the invention is used to remove any effect the environment could have on the dirty vectors. Note, the speech signals to be processed here are continuous. Unlike in batched speech processing, operating on short bursts of speech, here the compensation process needs to behave as a filter.
A speech recognition engine 630 matches the cleaned vectors 603 against a sequence of possible statistical parameters representing known phonemes 605. The matching can be done in an efficient manner using an optimal search algorithm such as a Viterbi decoder that explores several possible hypotheses of phoneme sequences. A hypothesis sequence of phonemes closest in a statistical sense to the sequence of observed vectors is chosen as the uttered speech.
As shown in FIG. 7, using the compensation as disclosed herein for speech recognition, results in an increased robustness to background noise for phonetic classification tasks. In FIG. 7, the y-axis 701 indicates the percentage of accuracy in hypothesizing the correct speech, the x-axis 702 indicates that relative level of noise (SNR). Broken curve 710 is for uncompensated speech recognition, and solid curve 720 is for compensated speech recognition. As can be seen, there is a significant improvement at all SNR below about 25 dB, which is typical for an office environment.
Speaker Recognition
In this application shown in FIG. 8, it is desired to determine who the speaker is independent on what the speaker says. Here, dirty speech signals 801 of an unknown speaker are processed to extract vectors 810. The vectors 810 are compensated (820) to produce cleaned vectors 803. The vectors 803 are compared against models 805 of known speakers to produce an identification (ID) 804. The models 805 can be acquired during training sessions.
Here as above, the noisy speech statistics are first predicted given the values of the environmental parameters estimated in the expectation maximization phase. Then, the predicted statistics are mapped into final statistics to perform the required processing on the speech.
Several possible techniques can be used. In one technique, the mean and covariance are determined for the predicted statistics. Then, the likelihood that an arbitrary utterance was generated by a particular speaker can be measured as the arithmetic harmonic sphericity (AHS) or the maximum likelihood (ML) distance.
Another possible technique uses the likelihood determined by the EM process. In this case, no further computations are necessary after the EM process converges.
As shown in FIG. 9, experiments suggest that the EM process gives better results than using the ML distance. In FIG. 9, the y-axis 901 is the percentage of accuracy for correctly identifying speakers, and the x-axis indicates different levels of SNR. The curve 910 is for uncompensated speech using ML distance metrics and models trained with clean speech. The curve 920 is for compensated speech at a given measured SNR. For environments with a SNR less than 25 dB as is typically found in homes and offices, there is a marked improvement.
The foregoing description has been directed to specific embodiments of this invention. It will be apparent, however, that variations and modifications. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications may be made to the described embodiments, with the attainment of all or some of the advantages. Therefore, it is the object of the appended claims to cover all such variations and modifications as come within the spirit and scope of this invention.
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They were booing him and quite mean to him and they didn't only cheer for Clément, but rather against Kiwi. But IMO it's to a very big part his own fault, I think he (intentionally or not) egged on the crowd with some of his emotions and he had gestures, C'MONs and fist pumps on celebrating some points. The people probably must have thought it's only show or fake to piss them off because he wanted to show off his good points he made against a French player. And not to forget... he also sweared at bad points and he threw his racket
I'm sure he could/should have solved it better and such behaviour can make you lose badly as well (remember so many times he was upset about something and lost?), but at this day it was his way to protect himself from 14000 people against him and I'm still very glad that he could withstand the pressure and WON.
However, the final point, his first match point was beautifully played at the end and before it was a long rally. After Kiwi won I couldn't hear a c'mon, but he raised his arms towards his box in the stands. This was a great picture
Against Andreev, I normally see the end coming because Andreev is a very good and agressive player when he has a good day. But maybe a miracle happens!
I saw the attacks on him over in GM
It sounds to me like it was a pretty well behaved match for Kiwi seeing things he likes to do sometimes
People just look for any reason to attack him, which is something I don't understand. He's always been like this, so why is it a big deal now. *sigh*
I am SOOO happy he held himself together and won it. I was excited he won just for the win, but to then find out how the crowd was to him I am amazed he came back and won it. Normally he loses his brain -- as you know
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Good day.
I've had this problem for a good long while now, and have periodically spent an hour or so looking online for a solution, but I have yet to encounter any posts on any forum addressing my particular problem.
I have a Geforce4 MX 440, and, while playing 3d games, there's a problem which crops up randomly and intermittantly. Every so often, many of the on-screen graphics will go a flickering red hue. Though the game is still playable, and the on-screen graphics are largely still discernable, the fact that everything is red-tinged and flickers constantly is, to say the least, irritating. I might even be able to tolerate it, though, if not for the fact that text becomes very slightly garbled, as some of the displayed letters become distorted in very small ways.
This has happened to me with Rise of Nations, Stronghold 2, and Age of Mythology so far, and the problem is the same each time, so I know that it's not restricted to the game itself, although I have never seen this happen outside of games.
I've been able to ameliorate the problem somewhat by mucking around with my bios, but it's still not perfect.
Perhaps the most baffling thing of all is that the problem will come and go, seemingly at random, even during the course of a single game. If I play for an hour, I can rest assured that I will have about ten periods of two-minute-long windows during which the graphics run smoothly and without the red flickering, but each time, without fail, the flicker returns.
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Art Crusade Stuff (update March 24)
Thought I'd post my adventures from the Art Crusade in the FF section as well. For each one of these the timeframe was approximately 48 hours from start to finish, although some of the battles have a little wider timeframe for convenience
I hope to update this regularly with future duels.
player 2 (defender): you produce a pet
B - your pet dissolves your oponent into a puddle with a dagger sticking up.
yoitisi vs. Pepps
player 2 (defender): you have a realisation
A - your aura changes, you realise the way of the world, you are enlightened on the battlefield and no harm can possibly befall you.
Wolfbane vs. yoitisi (I'm still kind of hoping he posts something to hit me around the head with, as it is a bit of a one man show atm...)
I should probably try to figure out my scanner, as it does something different with each pencilled image I put through it And while I'm at it, calibrate my monitors too, as I noticed the next image is rather dark on most monitors except mine...
player 2 (defender): accidental miss
B - you reflect an arrow with your oponents head as they try to tackle you.
Sone one vs. yoitisi
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i have to say dude, everytime you vs someone in the art crusades i know if they dont step it up several notches, you will wipe the floor with them. i enjoy your art and lines very much.You always seem to get the topic spot on ever time.
happy hunting.
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the painted pic isnt dark, its probably the other monitors that need calibrating.
your pencils are really awesome stuff man!
Do not, ever, under any circumstances, not have fun.
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Gotta love those niggly details on that night goblin shaman (first pic). I likey
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Al lof them are very attractive, especcially i loved the second one In the third picture, these lines are the arrows thrown to the orc, aren't they?
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Alti: Thanks dude, I enjoy doing it very much. Can't thank you enough for starting the whole thing
jdeegz: Glad to hear that, although I suspect my monitor still needs calibrating sometime soon.
phix: Might do some more with that character, can't help it but I have a soft spot for Goblins
aka sova: Yep they're arrows. I guess I should've spend a couple of seconds more on them..
Here's some close ups of the first two images, as they are originally on a much bigger format than shown here.
...and the result of a new round against Alti Not entirly happy with the result, but I had to run with my original idea because of lack of time so I did my best to get it right.
player 2 (defender) : limitations of the flesh
A - metal is your skin, oil is your raw blood, the magics suited to slay mear men dent your plated chest as you heave through the masses. your hands as gargantuan clawed things buzz and crackle with their own energies, your mind forgets what it was to be a man, you are finaly free.
Alti vs. Yoitisi
March 24th, 2008 #7
Not a real duel this one, but for the regular round of the Crusade so I thought I'd post it in here as well
Dogfight over Soulcrest Bridge, an aerial Joust
Should've started earlier on it
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dude well done, again you hit the nail on the head,
i got a feeling you will shine very brightly in the next big battle that starts in acouple of days.
i'm in the process of updateing the inventories and player lists with new ranks.
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nice work man i really like the orc shield ;Pp
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Volume 3 Issue 5
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Professor Lawrence Sager has been appointed the new dean of UT Law, UT-Austin Executive Vice President and Provost Sheldon Ekland-Olson announced Wed., May 10.
Sager holds the Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair and is one of the nation's preeminent constitutional theorists and scholars. Sager, who joined the faculty in 2002, becomes the 13th dean in the Law School's 123-year history. Steven Goode currently serves as dean ad interim.
Of note, former dean Mark Yudof is now chancellor of the UT System and former dean William Powers is now president of UT-Austin.
Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2006/051006_dean.html
Sager profile: http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/sagerl/
Sager and Yale's Akil Amar on the U.S. Constitution: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2006/031606_tlr.html
Texas Senator Judith Zaffirini will give the commencement address at the Law School's Sunflower Ceremony on Sat., May 20, at 3:30 p.m. at the Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Special Events Center.
Elected to the Texas Senate in 1986, Sen. Zaffirini (D-Laredo) represents the 21st Senatorial District in Texas and is the fourth-highest ranking senator and the highest-ranking senator for Bexar County and the border region.
Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2006/050306_sunflower.html
Chief Justice Jefferson, '88, and the Hon. Bruce Gibson, '78, Address Alumni Executive Committee
The Alumni Association Executive Committee convened for its bi-annual meeting on Friday, April 21 at the Old Supreme Court Room at the Capitol. The Executive Committee is charged with the management of the UT Law Alumni Association and focuses on fundraising and strengthening the relationship between the Law School and its alumni.
Alumni Association President Del Williams (1985) invited two special alumni guests to speak to the Committee. Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson (1988) talked to the group about the state of the Texas judiciary and about his vision for its future. The Honorable Bruce Gibson (1978), chief of staff for Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, gave the Committee a legislative update. He spoke about school finance and tax issues facing Texas.
Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2006/051106_alumni.html
Symposium Examines Dred Scott Case on its 150-Year Anniversary
This March, UT Law and the Chicago-Kent Law Review co-sponsored a symposium on the Dred Scott decision to reflect on the 150-year anniversary of the case. Professor Sanford Levinson organized the conference, inviting some of the most prominent academics in the U.S. to Austin. UT Law participants included Sarah Cleveland, Sanford Levinson, Scot Powe, Louise Weinberg, and visiting professor Keith Whittington.
Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2006/032706_scott.html
Video of Open Source Workshop Available Online
On May 2, in conjunction with the historic World Congress on Information Technology 2006, UT hosted an open source workshop:"The Future of Open Source Peer Production Models: Business and Legal Frontiers." Law school professors Ronald Mann, R. Anthony Reese, and Oren Bracha spoke.
Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2006/041306_opensource.html
Law Library Examines Watergate with Wright, Lezar papers
A new exhibit by the Tarlton Law Library titled "Writing Watergate: Written Works from the White House and Beyond" is on display in the Law School's Susman Godfrey Atrium through November. The exhibit looks at how the professional roles of four skilled writers shaped the way they wrote about Watergate.
The exhibit highlights documents and artifacts from two Tarlton Law Library manuscript collections, the Charles Alan Wright Papers and the Harold J. "Tex" Lezar Papers. "Together these collections provide a fascinating look at what went on behind the scenes at the White House during Watergate," said Professor Roy Mersky, Harry M. Reasoner Regents Chair in Law and Director of Research at the Tarlton Law Library.
Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2006/050506_watergate.html
Action Committee Wins UT-Austin Career Service Award
The Texas Campus Career Council (TC3) at UT-Austin honored the Law School's Action Committee for Career Services (ACCS) with a 2006 Robert Murff Excellence Award for outstanding support of career services at the Law School.
"In addition to the many employer outreach and program-related tasks that they assisted with, their ambassadorship between the CSO and the student body was beneficial in helping us learn about student needs and helping students understand how best to utilize the resources of our office," said David Montoya, Assistant Dean for Career Services at the UT School of Law.
Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2006/050806_murff.html
Graduating Law Students Receive University Co-op Public Interest Awards
Six graduating UT Law students have been awarded University Co-op Public Interest Awards in honor of their extraordinary commitment to public service. Each student received a $5,000 award made possible by a grant from the University Co-op, and administered by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law at the Law School.
The award recipients were selected by Interim Dean Steven Goode and will be presented on Wed., May 17, at a banquet celebrating the University Co-op Awards for Excellence in Graduate Education.
Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2006/050106_coopawards.html
Allen Cooper Receives UT Law Faculty Fellowship in Public Interest Law
Allen Cooper, '06, was awarded the UT Law Faculty Fellowship in Public Interest Law by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law. The Fellowship will provide a stipend for Cooper to develop the Injured Poultry Worker Justice Project at the Equal Justice Center in Austin. The program will increase access to justice for injured workers employed in the poultry processing industry in East Texas, especially those employed in plants that have opted out of the state's workers' compensation system.
The purpose of the Fellowship is to create opportunities for outstanding graduating law students to work with public interest legal organizations on behalf of underrepresented individuals or groups. Cooper was selected by a faculty committee based on his project proposal, and he will receive a stipend of $37,000. The Fellowship was created through generous contributions from members of the law faculty and the Law School.
Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2006/050806_cooper.html
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At has long been rumored that the Washington Nationals may trade one of their backend relievers at the end of the year. As things have not worked as expected in the later innings, the Nationals are almost left with no choice but to move one of Drew Storen, Tyler Clippard, or Rafael Soriano. The National's top reliever has undoubtably been Tyler Clippard making him someone the franchise wants to keep for the future. Clippard has an ERA of 2.21 and has succeeded in every situation the Nationals have put him in. As the bullpen's rock, Clippard belongs in Washington for years to come and the Nationals would love to move him back into the closer's role in the future. The National's second trade option is 7th inning man Drew Storen. Storen has struggled mightily this year and even spent a couple of weeks in AAA Syracuse. He seemed to fix his delivery during his stent there and has since improved. Storen's adjustments make many within the Nationals organization believe he can continue to pitch well and be a consistent end of the game pitcher along with Clippard for many future years. Rafael Soriano That only leaves one more future trade candidate, current closer Rafael Soriano. Soriano signed a 2 year $28 million deal this past offseason, which could hinder a future deal. He has not lived up to lofty expectations but due to his oversized contract the Nationals have not pulled Soriano from the closers role. It appears that the Nationals do not want to admit that they payed $14 million a year for a setup man caliber pitcher. Even with the large contract, the Nationals will probably eat a good portion of his current deal and move him during the offseason. Mike Rizzo is faced with a decision this coming offseason. Will he trade a reliever, and if so, who will it be. All signs currently point to Soriano being traded but this will not be done until after the offseason. The Soriano signing is one Rizzo would like to forget, and the trading of him will help Rizzo forget sooner rather than later.
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This has now been designated by President Obama as the "Buffett Rule" - raising taxes on millionaires to help cure the federal deficit.
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The masses to get government to wholeheartedly do their bidding, they must be consciously involved in the political process.
Senator Babafemi Ojudu who said this at a forum in Ado-Ekiti, explained that Nigerians had given in to political passivity by completely shunning the political process due to years of disappointment and betrayal by the political class.
Ojudu said although this action is justified, there is, however, a greater need for the masses to realize that the only way out lies in their ability to be able to negotiate with their political strength which they can only acquire by being fully involved in the political process. He added that people should not just crawl into their professional holes, instead they should join political parties and organise themselves in such a way that they can bargain with their strength, stressing that being a professional does not mean you should stay away from politics and watch others toil with your well-being.
While attributing the failure of the political class to cater to the needs of the people to the obvious disconnect between them and those that they represent, Ojudu said the masses are too aloof that they allow leaders to be foisted on them. He argued that most so-called people's representatives did not ascend to power through mass support, but were 'anointed' by party leadership, who, most times, do not even understand the language of the common man. So rather than represent the masses to the political leaders, such political office holders soon become representatives of the political class to the masses.
Ojudu, who represents Ekiti Central in the Senate, noted that the Nigerian masses could change this trend by being fully involved in party affairs to the extent that they would be able to make their own choice who would be truly representative of their aspirations. He added that their representative does not have to have money, but if the political leadership saw that he has the support of his people and would do a great harm to the party should he pull out with his people, they would have no choice but to give in to the people's demands.
Ojudu further stated that the masses who are already party members should stop going after crumbs, rather they should organise themselves in such a manner that their numerical strength would be felt in their respective parties. He advised that they should shed off the toga of hopelessness which most times dictate that only the affluent and the well-connected can aspire to high political offices. The lawmaker said he has never believed that everything would just work out smoothly for the masses through prayers or just by voting in elections, adding that it is the masses who can fight for the change that they desire through their genuine political representatives, which according to him is presently in scarce quantity in the country. He stressed the need for the Nigerian masses to do more than just voting every four years, adding that their strategy should be to organise themselves into a strong political unit that cannot be easily overlooked by the political leadership.
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The U.S. increased spying on an Iranian nuclear plant. The stepped-up surveillance of the Bushehr reactor was driven by heightened concerns about the security of weapons-grade plutonium after Tehran unexpectedly discharged fuel rods from the facility in October. The U.S. scrutiny has been conducted in part by drones operating over the Persian Gulf.
The surveillance underscores the limits of U.S. knowledge about Iran's military and science bureaucracy.
Morsi's Islamist allies besieged Egypt's high court to block a ruling on the legitimacy of a panel drafting a constitution the opposition rejects.
Taliban insurgents attacked a key coalition base in Afghanistan but failed to penetrate the installation. At least five Afghans were killed.
The White House and congressional Republicans remained at loggerheads over a deficit-reduction package, just weeks before the fiscal cliff.
Democratic lawmakers and strategists say the success of Obama's second term may ride on how this battle unfolds.
Israel said it is freezing the transfer of about $118 million in tax revenue it collects for the Palestinians in the wake of a U.N. vote on statehood.
Syria's army fought rebels around Damascus's airport for a fourth straight day as it tries to halt the opposition's entry into the capital.
Myanmar named Suu Kyi to lead an inquiry into last week's bloody crackdown on protesters at a copper mine.
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According to MCCCI's Manager for Public-Private Dialogue (PPD), Hope Chavula, the fair has so far registered over 65 participants including exhibitors throughout the whole value chain from research, input suppliers and producers (including farmer organizations), processors and buyers of agriculture produce and service providers.
"We can proudly say that we are delighted with the response we are getting from the public and we are hoping that by the 26 August, 2014 we will have more exhibitors.
"Currently, we have the whole Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development coming in as a participant as well as some organisations and companies such as CFAO, FEEDCO, ARET and many more will also be there to exhibit their machineries," said Chavula during a press briefing at Chichiri Conference Centre.
Chavula said the fair would act as a forum for the stakeholders to share experiences and expertise on agricultural activities in order to promote linkages generated from the value chain combination among players whereby they would discuss and conclude business deals resulting in improved performance of the sector.
"Due to increasing activities by small scale farmers, the fair is also meant to expose individual farmers and farmer groups to new developments in technologies, markets, and financial arrangements, and other services," explained Chavula.
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That's because all the critics analyzed it before learning about the money involved.The Reds' acquisition of Scott Rolen is "without question the most widely panned pre-deadline trade within the industry."
No one said that the Reds got hosed on the talent level, just that Rolen makes too much money and this trade makes it harder for the Reds to do something else since it limits the teams payroll flex. That is what BP, Fangraphs, everyone at ESPN, everyone at MLBTV, and everyone else I read said.
Now if you add in the fact that the Reds will receive around $7M in the deal, it makes much more sense. The Reds add no payroll this year, and only add around $2M next year. Throw in the money saved by trading Hairston, and it's only around $1M.
So the Reds still have basically the same payroll flex they had before the trade, but have upgraded from a guy everyone knows is not a starting 3B, to one of the best in the majors, both defensively and offensively. Rolen is easily the best defensive 3B in the NL, and would be the 6th best offensive 3B in the NL (top ten in the majors).
For that the Reds gave up that previously mentioned utility player who will make close to $5M next year, a 27 year old rookie relief pitcher, and solid B+ prospect.
And they kept their payroll about the same. Had they increased their payroll by around $7M the trade makes no sense, so the money is very important, and something that every commentator on the trade missed.


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Okay, so why won't my old DAZ 4 Pro serial number register the product anymore? I can't even register the autofit tool, either, and I just got that again.
So what's up? I'm really regretting even bothering with 4.5. Can anyone help get me back up and running at Pro level with all the bling I had preferably before before I go bald pulling my hair out?
And the section that has been posted repeatedly about registration numbers doesn't work, nor does online registration.
So, what's someone for whom DAZ 4.5 is a complete and total failure to do?
It should work, check for spaces in the serial number; also make sure you're registering with the DS Pro serial, not a regular DS serial number.


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