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|Holger W. Brode, Olaf Schroer, Jens F. Marschner, Harald Aust, Enrique Marti Del Olmo
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The invention relates to a method as recited in the preamble of claim 1. Various systems have come into use that confront a human user with a machine that maintains a bidirectional speech channel, in that human speech is analyzed and understood, and riposted with machine-generated speech. The nature of the transaction can be economical, in that a physical item or a service is ordered by or rendered to a customer. Alternatively, the transaction can be an enquiry system such as relating to public transport facilities, weather forecast, etcetera. Still other types of transaction are feasible as well. Recognizing human speech remains a technically exacting problem, because the analysis itself is complicated, and also because the speech is itself often inconsistent on various different levels: words may be missing or superfluous, the actual phrase may be selfcontradictory or inconclusive, or a particular sentence may render another one meaningless. In consequence, the invention recognizes that such elements of a system which have proved to be working correctly should be considered as gold nuggets, and if possibly be reused for various other purposes.
In consequence, amongst other things it is an object to allow in dialogue developing, as well as in the use of a multi-dialogue system, as much as possible the reuse of proven building blocks, so that the overall structure can be tailored to a particular problem through an appropriate description of the system, whilst the construction of the structure is facilitated through the use of modular dialogues. It has been found that various different dialogues, or even different parts of a single dialogue intend to extract from a user informations that have identical or nearly identical character, and the reuse of subdialogues allows for an easier development, as it were, on the basis of building blocks.
Advantageously, all subdialogues at a non-top level of the hierarchy have a uniform interface for being accessible, said interface specifying an identifier, a fixed receivable entity, and a variable output entity for presentation to a higher level subdialogue. In this way, the internal communication between the various subdialogues can be structured in a standard and uniform manner, which again simplifies the developing or amending of a dialogue.
Advantageously, at least one subdialogue has two siblings arranged in parallel therein for undertaking to attain uniform output results, but using respectively various different procedures thereto. In this way, various adverse circumstances can be remedied by using a different recognition algorithm or a different structure of a particular subdialogue, if necessary. In case the circumstances change during execution of a particular subdialogue, or between respectively successive executions thereof, an optimum choice between available subdialogue siblings may be made.
The invention also relates to an apparatus for implementing the method.
Further advantageous aspects of the invention are recited in dependent claims.
These and other aspects and advantages of the invention will be discussed more detail with reference to the disclosure of preferred embodiments hereinafter, and more in particular with reference to the appended Figures, that show:
FIG. 1, an overall block diagram of an inventive system;
FIG. 2, a structure of a dialogue system;
FIG. 3, a list of applications built from subdialogues.
Hereinafter, first the general organization of the invention is described, in terms of overall hardware. Next, the internal organization with subdialogues and siblings is considered.
FIG. 1 is an overall block diagram of a system according to the invention. Item 20 represents the interconnection to a public telephone. Block 24 represents a standard interface to this net, which for an analog net allows to receive and sample analog speech from the net. Block 26 is a subsystem for recognizing received speech. By itself, speech recognition has been disclosed in various documents, such as U.S. Ser. No. 07/860,199 (PHD 89158), U.S. Ser. No. 08/425,305 (PHD 91136), U.S. Ser. No. 08/312,495 (PHD 91137), U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/563,853 (PHD 91138), U.S. Ser. No. 08/203,105 (PHD 93034), U.S. Ser. No. 08/587,190, all to the assignee of the present application. Speech generation has been disclosed in various documents, such as U.S. Ser. No. 08/696,431 (PHN 15408), and U.S. Ser. No. 08/778,795 (PHN 15641), to the present assignee.
Block 28 is a dialogue control subsystem that undertakes to understand the speech entries received, given the intention of the speech entries to reach a particular transaction result, that should then be recorded in the transaction memory 30. Block 30 is a transaction memory which is organized to store parts of the request of the user as far as they have been recognized, as well as indications of what policy the machine is to follow next, in order to attain optimal progress, as far as clear. Also, the ultimate transactions may be recorded for subsequent execution. The nature of the transaction itself is not considered further. The storage format should be appropriate to the application. In an information system, the entry may specify the exact nature of the information required by the user person, so that after the full specification thereof has been found, the system may access a background database, and subsequently wipe out the information in memory 30.
Block 29 receives from the memory the information that should be outputted to the user, such as further questions and partial and final informations. In block 27 these are converted to a string of speech items, and in block 25 to actual sounds. In this manner the system outputs speech messages on interface 20 to elicit from a user such informations that are further necessary, so that a bidirectional speech dialogue with the user can be undertaken. Naturally, various blocks of the above comprise hardware as well as software components.
Block 36 is a user keyboard that may be standard alphanumerical, although special function keys for the particular application may be provided. This keyboard can be used by an operator for effecting various assistance and system management tasks. Block 34 is a standard display screen for showing the contents of a memory that keeps track of the execution of the user-intended task of the system. Item 32 is a local communication system interconnecting the items that can usually be directly controlled by the system operator. Item 38 is an intermediate memory for storing a certain amount of user speech for supporting improved processing thereof. Item 33 is the background database, or a connection to an ultimate service provider.
FIG. 2 is an example of a dialogue system based on a hierarchical structure of individual subdialogues 60 to 86. First, there is a top subdialogue MAIN 60. On each of three hierarchically lower levels various further subdialogues are arranged. The precise functionality of the individual subdialogues is left unconsidered here for reasons of brevity. As shown, any subdialogue may have zero or more subdialogues connected thereto on a next lower hierarchical level. In principle, this number is unconstrained. As shown, subdialogue 62 has an interface 88 and a body 90. Except for main subdialogue 60, all other subdialogues have such an interface, that has a uniform structure explained elsewhere herein. Main subdialogue 60 is automatically accessed upon stating the application program, and therefore needs no particular interface. Upon starting the main subdialogue, one or more of directly connected subdialogues 62, 72, 78 may be accessed during the evolution of the dialogue. If two or more such subdialogues are simultaneously active, the time-sequential execution thereamongst may be arbitrary. This is also true if such simultaneously active subdialogues are on different levels in the hierarchy. A particular subdialogue may call one or more of its directly subaltern subdialogues immediately: in that case two or more instances of the latter subdialogue can be active. Upon accessing subdialogue 62, the subaltern subdialogue 66 is accessed immediately and automatically; which has been indicated by a special arrow at the bottom of subdialogue 62. A similar relation exists between subdialogues 80 and 84. Usually, all subdialogues are different from each other, which has not been indicated in any special manner. By way of exception, subdialogues 74 and 84 are identical to each other, which has been indicated by a special sign in the lower left hand corner. The usage of identical subdialogues in different positions in the hierarchy of course diminishes the required storage area, in that their physical presence needs only be singular.
Further, generally all subdialogues have internally a unitary setup. By way of exception, subdialogue 76 has internally two separate parts that are called siblings. Each of the siblings of a particular subdialogue is arranged to lead to an identical result if successful, be it in another manner. For example, part 89 may be able to recognize numbers when expressed as either forty eight or eight and forty. On the other hand, part 91 may recognize in particular sequences consisting exclusively of individual digits like: four-eight. If the recognition under control of sibling proceeds in an insufficient manner, the subdialogue in question may switch-over from one particular sibling pertaining to the subdialogue in question, to another sibling. Likewise, subdialogue 64 has four siblings. An example of use thereof may be the recognizing of an order for a stockbroker transaction: here, the recognition of the command buy versus sell is extremely relevant. However, in many languages these two terms resemble each other quite closely. In consequence, either upon sensing a potential problem if the recognition is feasible but not optimal, or alternatively even automatically, the system changes to the English version of a particular sibling after the version in another language has been recognized already. In certain situations, the provision of four siblings in parallel would be worthwhile.
FIG. 3 is a list of applications built from various subdialogues. The subdialogues are as follows.
1--date; this subdialogue provides to a user a unique date, whilst allowing to handle user input errors, such as nonexistent dates, and solving ambiguities, such as "Christmas" which in Europe may indicate a sequence of two or even of three (Germany) dates.
2--time; this provides a unique description of a time span.
3--credit card number; this provides a credit card number with repetition required.
4--account number; this provides an account number with repetition required.
5--name; this provides a name using recognition of continuous speech, single-word recognition, or letter spelling recognition, as depending on the state of progress of the subdialogue.
6--address; this provides a complete address, e.g. consisting of name, street, city and zip code. The subdialogue may be built through using as constituent parts dialogues #5 and #7.
7--city name; this provides a city name, using the recognition types specified under #5.
8--product name; this provides the generic name of a product, using the recognition types specified under #5.
9--caller identification; this provides all information that is necessary for unique identification of a caller. The subdialogue may be built using applications #4 and #5.
10--information output; this outputs required information to a caller person including optional repetition thereof.
11--amount of money; the result of this subdialogue is the specifying of an amount of money.
12--order number; this provides the outputting of an order number.
According to the mainstay of the present application, and also as commonly used, a subdialogue implies utterances from two sides. According to an extension of the invention, a particular module as shown in FIG. 2 may restrict to only give a machine speech output, while the remaining aspects of the module, such as the interface, are uniform with respect to the other modules. It is also feasible to have one or more modules that represent no visible effect at all to a user person. For brevity, all such modules will be called subdialogues hereinafter.
Next, the applications are as follows:
A--product information; this allows a caller person to enquire about certain specified properties of a particular product.
B--company call router; this allows to forward a telephone or other call type to a particular person or department, if the incoming call only partially specifies the destination.
C--shipment info; this allows for a caller to enquire about the status of a particular shipment, or for a system manager to enter or amend data pertaining to such shipment.
D--hotline; a special support facility for problems or specific access types.
E--phone order processing; this allows a caller person to place and specify an order for a particular product.
F--computel ticket-telephone; this allows for a caller person to place a telephone call in a computer-assisted application.
G--tourist information; this allows a caller person to specify a tourist information enquiry with regards to a particular aspect of the enquiry.
H--air travel information system; this allows a caller person to enquire about air travel destinations, routes, flight information, and prices.
I--railway information system; ditto for a rail interconnection system.
J--telebanking; this allows a caller person to order a limited selection of banking services that have become known as telebanking (such as: money transfers, payments, buying and selling of securities).
K--yellow pages; this allows a caller person to request information published in the so-called yellow pages of a telephone or similar directory.
L--directory service; this allows a caller person to request information from a telephone or similar directory, whilst using various different entry parameters, such as name, address, telephone number, etc.
FIG. 3, on each line that specifies a particular application, lists by means of a cross the subdialogues that can be used for building this application, for so facilitating this building by using modular subdialogues.
Hereinafter, first the conceptual aspects of the invention are discussed. Now, a particular application is constructed from subdialogues or HDDL modules, that together are linkable in a dialogue structure. Herein, HDDL is a High Level Dialogue Definition language. A dialogue can use through calling other dialogues, which by virtue of their capability are named subdialogues. In this manner, certain activities or services which are part of the overall service, can be encapsulated in the dialogue structure. By way of example, a home banking application usually needs to know the PIN number of a particular customer. Suppose now, that the system experiences a recognition problem while running this part of the dialogue, Now according to the invention, the system can call within the same subdialogue instead of the version or sibling presently used, another version or sibling in order to better understand the actual caller. According to one embodiment, the new sibling may repeat or mirror the original one, while the recognition is executed in a more exact manner. In another embodiment, the machine speech output to the user is made slower. In a third embodiment, the subdialogue introduces additional words or sentences that were not present in the original version, to render the subdialogue more clear. Such an additional expression may represent an example being given to a an unexperienced user person. Here, encapsulation means that the functionality of the subdialogue remains the same, but only the actual implementation changes. The above sibling concept allows the designer to implement the same dialogue functionality in respective different manners, whilst maintaining or not maintaining identical speech output to human users. The envisaged result is uniform across the various siblings. A dialogue without a plurality of siblings is in a semantic sense a dialogue with only a single sibling. Note that the top level dialogue does not have the sibling feature in the embodiment considered.
Subdialogues will be formulated hereinafter in pseudocode, and declared in the form of header, body and tail, such as by:
______________________________________//headerDIALOGUE topLevelDialog( )SIBLING: small, normal;ELDEST normal: //body:SIBLING small:END SIBLING small;SIBLING normal;:END SIBLING normal;://tailEND DIALOGUE topLevelDialog______________________________________
Second example:
______________________________________// subdialogueDIALOGUE testDialogA( Boolean flag, Integer& result ): //empty:END DIALOGUE testDialogA.______________________________________
In the above, the second line starting with DIALOGUE represents the interface that is substantially uniform across the various subdialogues: the subdialogues are called by name, and in this case, the parameters given in the same line represent the interface. The parameter values may be presented to the subdialogue. Alternatively, the subdialogue may produce these parameter values for inputting into the interface. In this particular example, the Boolean is exclusively inputted. The integer& result quantity may be changed in relation to the user person.
The identifier in the header specifies the name of the subdialogue, and is identical to the name specified in the tail. The keyword MAIN marks the interface-less main subdialogue of the structure that is called at startup of the application, every application having exactly one main subdialogue, without argument list. An arbitrary number of further subdialogues is allowed. Where the subdialogue body can be replaced by one or more siblings, the sibling names are declared in the header of the subdialogue after the keyword SIBLING. One of the siblings per subdialogue is the standard implementation, that is used if a subdialogue call does not specify a particular sibling. The name of the standard sibling follows after the word `eldest`. All other concepts, such as main subdialogue, formal arguments, are analogous in their meaning relative to subdialogues without siblings. Note that a sibling in its turn can be divided into sections.
This section allows a programming interface to the external world, which is everything external to the block featured in FIG. 1, using a class declaration. After a transaction class has been defined in the object-oriented HDDL program, objects of this type or class can be defined, but then these objects must appear in the actual section. In the disclosure hereinafter, terms followed by the word class define the type of an object, the terms followed by the word instance define the instance.
______________________________________TRANSACTIONSTravelplanClass myTravelplanInstance;TravelplanClass our TravelplanInstance EXPORT;Price List globalPrice List IMPORT;END TRANSACTIONS;______________________________________
When the subdialogue goes in the ACTIVE mode, for each declared instance the class name is passed to the system in FIG. 1, to create an appropriate transaction object. The object is destroyed by the system when the subdialogue is subsequently deactivated.
______________________________________ CLASS MyClass { init( ); set( STRING in ); get( STRING& out); }______________________________________
An identifier, for example MyClass, in the method declaration defines the name of a transaction method. Next follows a parameter list that declares the parameters of the transaction class method, restricting to the basic types boolean, integer, float, and string. They are mapped on appropriate C++ types. When the method of a transaction class is invoked, the associated HDDL parameter values are passed to the system transaction server by using formal argument names, which means that formal parameter names must be specified. The item & hereabove in the formal method argument has a similar meaning to a reference parameter creation in C++. If the element & is not included, the value of the associated parameter is passed while using default call-by-value. If however, & is declared, the value is passed as call-by-reference parameter. The latter is a variable parameter, it that it is used to provide a results value.
The definition of a transaction object can be extended by a keyword EXPORT. The so defined object can be used in another subdialogue. If the object is extended by a keyword IMPORT, the system does not create a new object. Instead, the class name refers to the object of the same name as defined in the corresponding EXPORT definition. The transaction statement is also described in the ACTION section hereinafter. The various instances may be used to call the various METHODS (unit, set, get).
The HDDL language includes a number of statements for the using and controlling of subdialogues. These statements are used for:
A. setting the subdialogue mode
B. terminating subdialogues
C. switching between siblings
D. calling/activating subdialogues
In order to make a subdialogue visible, it must be either called or activated. Both of these actions are part of the parent subdialogue. An ACTIVATE statement may occur in a so-called condaction, that is a conditional action for activating a subdialogue, of the parent dialogue or in its USES section. A CALL statement may occur only in a condaction. A LISTEN statement is used to set a subdialogue in a listening mode. It can occur in the USES section or within a condaction of the parent subdialogue. The ACTIVATE and LISTEN statements can be used to specify a particular sibling. It is possible to define an initial mode for a subdialogue immediately when the associated parent is activated.
Activating a subdialogue
To switch on both the speech understanding and also the dialogue control sections of a subdialogue, the latter must first be activated with an ACTIVATE statement. In the listening mode, only the speech understanding section is activated, the dialogue control section then being inactive. The activating can be done with or without an actual argument list:
______________________________________ACTIVATE DialogA siblingName(actual argument list);//orACTIVATE DialogA;______________________________________
Absence of all parameter values causes empty brackets. If the subdialogue is already listening or active, and the ACTIVATE statement is used with an argument list, the subdialogue in question is first deactivated and then activated again with the new parameters. As a result, the subdialogue looses its current internal state. When the subdialogue is already in listening mode, the variant `without argument` may be chosen. The subdialogue is then `promoted` from listening mode to active mode. As a result, its condactions become visible, and the variables of a sibling keep their actual values, unless a different sibling from the listening one is specified explicitly. If the first variant of the ACTIVATE statement is chosen, and no sibling is specified, the ELDEST sibling of the subdialogue will be reactivated. If a particular sibling is specified however, the latter is reactivated instead. However, if the subdialogue in question is already in active mode, and the `without argument list` variant is chosen whilst specifying a particular sibling, or if the sibling in question is running already, the subdialogue maintains its internal state. When the next executable condaction is determined according to the HDDL evaluation strategy, the condactions of the latter subdialogue describing that strategy, and of its currently active siblings have the highest `textual order`, as if the subdialogues had just been activated. Various subdialogues can be active coexistently; their sequence order of execution is generally of little importance only, unless a conflict would occur.
Conversely, if the `without argument list` variant is chosen that specifies a different sibling from the running sibling, the subdialogue switches to the former one, according to the Switch Statement hereinafter. If no sibling is specified, and the subdialogue was previously inactive, the ELDEST sibling is activated.
Calling a subdialogue
When activating a subdialogue, a variable defined in a condaction may not be passed as a reference parameter. When a subdialogue is called, it goes into active mode. Unlike switching on through the ACTIVATE statement, a new scope of the application is defined.
______________________________________CALL DialogA:siblingName(argument list); CALL DialogA:siblingName;______________________________________
The CALL statement activates the speech understanding and dialogue control parts of the called subdialogue, and all its siblings according to their initial mode specified in the USES section.
______________________________________USES//...DialogA dialogInstance-- 4( origin, TRUE ) : ACTIVATE; ://...END USES;______________________________________
Here, again the name and the associated instance are specified in the interface. This means, that for a given call-scope, all data of the called subdialogue and of the siblings thereof activated subsequently, and also, if applicable, their listening subdialogues, become visible. Other subdialogues, in particular the parent subdialogue, become invisible after the call. When the called scope terminates, the previous scope is restored, and the next statement after the CALL statement is executed.
Setting to listening mode
The LISTEN statement sets the specified subdialogue to listening mode.
______________________________________ LISTEN DialogA( ) //or LISTEN DialogA:siblingName( ); //or LISTEN DialogA;______________________________________
The requirements to a LISTEN statement differ, depending on the previous mode of the subdialogue specified:
I. if the subdialogue is inactive, the statement sets it to listening mode, subsequently all subdialogues specified in the USES section that have the initial mode LISTEN or ACTIVE are set to listening mode;
II. if the subdialogue was already listening, the statement only affects a sibling that is specified other than the one currently running
III. if the subdialogue was active, it is reset to listening mode. If the same sibling is used, all its currently active subdialogues are also set to listening mode.
Deactivating a subdialogue
The DEACTIVATE statement sets the mode of the subdialogue, together with all of its siblings, to inactive mode:
DEACTIVATE DialogA;
If a dialogue is set to passive mode from either active or listening mode, all its subdialogues are also set to passive mode. Since the default mode of a subdialogue is passive, the DEACTIVATE keyword need not to be used within the USES section of a dialogue.
Terminating a subdialogue
Once a subdialogue has been called, it may terminate in four different ways:
I. through the RETURN statement in the subdialogue
II. through an `implicit return`, which occurs when no condactions in the current dynamic scope can be executed, because every condition then evaluates to FALSE
III. deactivation via the parent subdialogue
IV. with a BYE statement, that terminates the entire application; the latter two implying the implicit return, supra.
Switching subdialogues
The SWITCH statement is used to switch a subdialogue to one of its siblings:
SWITCH SiblingA;
Here, the current implementation of the subdialogue is replaced in full by the implementation defined in the specified sibling (here: SiblingA). Other subdialogues in the current scope are also affected, since the subdialogues which were activated by the switching subdialogue are (recursively) deactivated. This particular procedure is fully dependable, since both implementations share the same interface, which is the only component that is visible to other subdialogues. This means that if the switching subdialogue was activated, or called by another subdialogue, subsequent to the switch no change will have been effected for the activating or calling subdialogue.
Problem detection
In an HDDL application the problem detector mechanism allows the program to monitor the progress of a subdialogue. Through using the results gained from the monitoring, problem detection allows the program to decide whether or not to adjust the flow of the dialogue according to the current situation. The monitoring of the dialogue is achieved by checking certain aspects of the system behavior, and reflecting this behavior as a structured system value. An example is the number of repetitions for a particular question. This value is then made available to the HDDL program at any subsequent instant in the dialogue flow.
Switching siblings
An associated `switchover` mechanism allows entire dialogues to be switched In and Out upon recognizing a problem. This mechanism uses subdialogue siblings as its objects, several implementations of which may be provided for one particular subdialogue, each exhibiting a respectively different behavior. This mechanism creates a facility for reacting to any deterioration in the dialogue flow. For example, various different siblings can be used with a good quality dialogue, a rather poor dialogue, and a bad quality dialogue, respectively. As speech understanding deteriorates, a subdialogue can then switch itself to a version that can deal with poor speech understanding, wherein for instance the user may be asked to spell out the intended phraseology. If the dialogue improves again, the subdialogue in question may switch itself back to the higher quality version for better understanding. This switching can only be effected by the dialogue itself, based on required partial results by each of the subdialogues in the structure.
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Are YOU a geography genius? Do you know about all places east and west - north and south? Then you might be up to the Viscount Goatier's Geo Quiz. NOT a bunch of trivia questions. NO! It is photos. Look at them and see if you know where YOU are. Are YOU up to the challenge?
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The Sarah Lawrence College Politics Faculty will present a panel discussion, "Looking Forward, Looking Backward: The 2004 and 2000 Elections," on Friday, April 16 at 3:30 pm in Reisinger Concert Hall. The program, featuring Congressman Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), Sarah Lawrence class of '81, and Jean Elliott Brown, class of '72, a candidate for Congress in 2000 from West Palm Beach, Florida, one of the hot spots of the recount controversy, is to be the first in a series of events presented by the politics faculty leading up to the 2004 national elections.
"As we begin to think about the choices we face in the 2004 elections, it is important to view the issues in the context of recent American history," said Politics faculty member David Peritz. "As the immediate trauma of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 recedes and the political agenda expands again to include something approaching the usual range of policy issues, it seems particularly important to remember the extraordinary election of 2000 and to reflect on some of the longer term trends in American politics it revealed." Peritz says that such trends would include the sharp geographically-based divides in the partisan alignment of the country; the increasingly fractious character of national electoral politics, with candidates competing for a small number of voters who determine the outcomes in the nationally decisive 'baker's dozen' of swing states; and the political implications of the deep and growing inequalities that characterize American society.
Rahm Emanuel is an emerging leader among Congressional Democrats, currently seeking reelection. Representing Illinois' 5th Congressional District, which covers the Northwest Side of Chicago and parts of suburban Cook County, Emanuel was chosen by his fellow Democratic freshmen as Democratic Whip for their class. He also serves as a Vice Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and member of the Executive Committee of the New Democratic Coalition. Emanuel began his political career with the consumer rights organization Illinois Public Action, and went on to serve in a number of capacities in local and national politics. In 1992 he served as Director of Finance for the presidential campaign of then-Governor Bill Clinton. He went on to serve as a top White House advisor to President Clinton from 1993 to 1999, first as Assistant to the President for Political Affairs and then as Senior Advisor to the President for Policy and Strategy.
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"Walking to Old Montreal" Old Montreal Tip by alza
Old Montreal, Montreal: 28 reviews and 27 photos
Favorite thing: Photo : Walking from Métro Place d'Armes to the Basilique Notre-Dame and Old Montreal.
At the blue columns on the right, there's La Popessa, a formula eatery, "Universal Pasta, Fast Cuisine & Healthy Meals", cafeteria style. I saw weekend dads with kids walking up to it & inside. Popular with the young crowd. On Saint-Antoine West, corner Saint-Urbain.
A short story about La Popessa -
In tarot, La Popessa refers to the High Priestess. The card may have been inspired by legendary Pope Joan, thought to have reigned between 1086 & 1108.
-- John Anglicus, born at Mainz, was Pope John VIII for a while. John was a woman...
who went to Athens as a young girl, disguised as a man. She learned so much that once in Rome, no one could equal her. She gained a great reputation & was made Pope. But she became pregnant & had a child during a procession from St Peter's to the Lateran, in a lane called Via Sacra, now known as "Via evitata" (the "shunned street") between the Coliseum and St Clement's church.
"The Lord Pope always turns aside from the street [...] because of abhorrence of the event. (Martin of Opava, Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum).
Fondest memory: While on a visit to Rome, I walked along Via Sacra from the Coliseum to St Clement's, and on to the Lateran. I didn't know about Popessa Joan at the time...
Some say Popessa Giovanna was lapidated by an angry mob when the baby appeared...
I had found the street so quiet and inviting, had stopped for an expresso, dolce farniente! now I'm not so sure...
Sister Pascalina, who was the confidant of Pope Pius XII, is also known as La Popessa, as it's a "title" often given to women who have influence over a pope.
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One of the most exciting additions in Pro Tools LE 7.4 is the Elastic Time feature, which greatly improves the program''s transient detection and time-stretching functionality.
Having significantly leveled the MIDI playing field with the introduction of Pro Tools 7.0, Digidesign has since turned its attention to the needs of loop-based musicians. Ironically, for a program that helped define the notion of nonlinear audio editing, Pro Tools' audio had started to seem downright linear compared with the looping and time-stretching work flows of programs such as Sony Acid and Ableton Live.
Version 7.4 introduces Elastic Time, Digidesign's unique take on making audio as flexible as MIDI. While still less radical than the cell-based approach favored by Live and Cakewalk Project 5, Elastic Time's presence means Pro Tools users will rarely have to stress over combining loops with different original tempos. Many other features — a total of 183 pages of What's New documentation — have been added since we reviewed Pro Tools 7.0, so this review will highlight the most significant new features in version 7.4. (See the online bonus material for a rundown of features new to Pro Tools LE 7.3.) Everything here applies to both LE and M-Powered unless otherwise noted, and nothing here is absent from HD.
I tested Pro Tools LE and M-Powered 7.4 on a dual-core Intel 2.33 GHz MacBook Pro with 2 GB of RAM running Mac OS X 10.4.10. OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is not supported as of this writing, but it should be by the time you read this. Windows XP (SP2) and Vista 32-bit Business and Ultimate Edition are supported. Digidesign notes that there are no known issues with Vista Home and Home Premium — they simply have not been tested for compatibility. Pro Tools users should never upgrade their OS or any component thereof (such as QuickTime), or even spend any money on new hardware, without first checking Digidesign's detailed compatibility documentation at digidesign.com/compato.
FIG. 1: Elastic Time is enabled on a track-by-track basis simply by choosing a suitable time-stretching algorithm.
The most important new feature is unquestionably Elastic Time. It's useful to think of it as a more evolved version of Beat Detective, although it's actually much more than that. Often imitated but never equaled, Beat Detective is Pro Tools' way of time-aligning rhythmic audio and MIDI tracks through a combination of microscopic tempo mapping, groove extraction, beat slicing, and quantization (see "8 Groovy Tips for Beat Detective" at emusician.com).
Elastic Time improves on Beat Detective in at least three important ways. First, it features an improved beat-detecting algorithm that marks transients more precisely and better interprets their rhythmic meaning. Second, there is no floating toolbar with multiple steps. Third, instead of slicing, conforming, and crossfading audio, it time-stretches it.
To use Elastic Time, you simply click on a new-track widget and choose a time-stretching algorithm appropriate to the material (see Fig. 1). The audio regions on that track go offline momentarily as Elastic Time analyzes their transients. If the tempo of the audio is already close to the session tempo, so that Elastic Time knows its musical context, you can simply quantize those transients to the grid, and Elastic Time will time-stretch each slice appropriately. This can be done in real time so that if you change the tempo the audio will immediately adapt, or it can be rendered. As with so many functions in a DAW, the trade-off is CPU cycles spent on real-time processing versus time spent waiting for audio to be rendered. The CPU and RAM hit with lots of real-time Elastic Time tracks can be significant.
Although Elastic Time might seem to make Beat Detective unnecessary, the latter still exists in Pro Tools 7.4. This means you could, for example, extract the timing of a drum loop or recorded performance with Beat Detective and then use Elastic Time to quantize another track to it. Both Elastic Time and Beat Detective require good judgment and occasional tweaking for optimal results. Anyone familiar with the Beat Detective work flow of adjusting sensitivity and adding/deleting/promoting beat triggers (called event markers in Elastic Time) will feel right at home (see Fig. 2).
The implications for music production, especially in styles that rely heavily on loops, are obvious, but Elastic Time can be applied to sample-based tracks as easily as to tick-based tracks. By grabbing a single event marker, you can "telescope" an entire region to compress or expand it to the desired length. This is similar to using the TCE Trim tool, except that you can now drag a specific event within a region — rather than just the end of a region — to a hitpoint. By anchoring one event marker and dragging another, you can "accordion" the region, stretching the audio on either side of the anchor point in opposing directions. To align dialog or Foley, you can drag each event marker individually.
None of this would matter if the time compression/expansion were not adequate, but it is in fact quite good. Five different algorithms are available (one of which will work only in rendered mode), and three of them offer simple but useful controls for optimizing the results. With practice, I was able to find a suitable setting for just about every situation.
Audio can be auditioned at session tempo within the Workspace browser, and it can be automatically conformed on import. Audio can be batch analyzed within the browser so it won't need to go offline for analysis when you import it.
For those times when Beat Detective is still the right tool, you will find an Enhanced Resolution option for analyzing selected audio. This is inherited from Elastic Time, and it is also used by Tab To Transient and Separate Regions At Transients. One of the most anxiously awaited keyboard shortcuts makes its debut in 7.4, too: you can now toggle Tab To Transient on and off by pressing Command-Option-Tab.
FIG. 2: The new Analysis track view allows you to edit individual event markers in conjunction with the Elastic Properties window.
Pro Tools LE 7.4 users with a Digi 003 or an Mbox 2 can now use an Avid Mojo SDI for direct support of Avid video. In a fast-paced video production environment, this makes for a relatively inexpensive workstation for dialog editing, Foley, sound-effects design, and dialog localization. With the Mojo SDI, LE 7.4 supports multiple video tracks, multiple video codecs, general video editing, and more. I did not test Mojo SDI support.
Pro Tools M-Powered finally supports DigiTranslator, so M-Powered users are now fully equipped to move projects between DAWs or between Pro Tools and Avid workstations — at least to the extent that OMF and AAF work for anyone. Under Vista only, 7.4 supports import, playback, and bouncing of Windows Media VC-1 Advanced Profile video files.
The remaining new features in Pro Tools 7.4 include improved handling of REX and Acid files and the ability to receive MIDI from ReWire clients. Structure Free, a limited but still quite useful version of Digidesign's sampler plug-in, is included. For most users, then, upgrading from 7.3 to 7.4 means Elastic Time. It's a big-enough feature that it's certainly worth the $49 upgrade price for anyone who does time correction.
If you are still using version 7.1 or earlier, the long list of 7.3 features in addition to Elastic Time makes the 7.4 upgrade a bargain at $75. Mixer changes can now be made on the fly, allowing you to add plug-ins and change routings without stopping playback (though with a brief audio interruption). Up to 99 window configurations can be stored, recalled, imported, and exported. As always, Pro Tools' documentation is among the best — thorough, well written, and available as PDFs on Digidesign's Web site.
Pro Tools LE 7.4 steps boldly into the fray, providing the sort of original approach to malleable audio that you would expect from an industry leader. Unless you're trying to extend the life of an underpowered computer, it would be silly not to upgrade.
Brian Smithers would like to thank his colleagues at Full Sail Real World Education for their insights and boundless Pro Tools knowledge.
PROS: Elastic Time. Mojo SDI support. Windows Vista support. Outstanding documentation. Structure Free sample player plug-in.
CONS: Persnickety (though well-documented) compatibility grid. No Leopard support as of review date. No surround mixing. M-Powered still doesn't support DV Toolkit 2.
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Oooh, PMD brings back some good memories. I remember on m very first playthrough of PMD Red, I was a Torchic although I can't for the life of me remember who my partner was. I think it was...Oh, it WAS a Totodile! Can't remember their names though. =/ Then I remember that I started that game over after becoming frustrated near the end (I was young at the time okay? xD) and was a Mudkip that time around. I think I chose Totodile as my partner AGAIN. I remember restarting that one last time and became a Cubone, with Torchic as my partner and got pretty far with that. But I never finished it, and I seemed to have lost it a while ago.
Then, I got PMD Explorers of Darkness and my love for PMD surfaced once again. I was a Chimchar, and still am because I never restarted that game nor did I beat it, and I THINK my partner was a Treecko. I still need to finish that game, in fact, I might go play it after this!
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Ms. Lourdes del Pilar D. provides sewing services. She has had a sewing workshop for four years. She creates all types of clothing. At the moment, she is making bed clothes, which she sends to her cousin in the department of Santa Barbará to sell. She also sells CDs and CD cases. She will use this loan to buy fabric, flounce, CDs and CD cases.
Ms. Rosmery D. D. works in catalog sales, selling products like deodorants, lotions, perfumes, home goods, creams, and other items. She also has a part-time job in a pizzeria. She will use this loan to buy merchandise to improve her sales and increase her earnings. She has regular customers amongst her coworkers.
Ms. Nancy Lizeth G. has been selling costume jewelery and silver jewelery for six months. She already has regular customers, who work in various private businesses and government offices. Nancy offers credit for 15 days or makes cash sales. She will use this loan to buy accessories like sets of chains, pendants, earrings, bracelets, and rings.
la sra. Lourdes del Pilar D. se dedica a los servicios de costura, tiene un taller de costura desde hace 4 años, confecciona todo tipo de ropa, en estos momentos está elaborando ropa para cama, las cuales manda a vender con su hermano al departamento de Santa Barbará.
tambien vende CD's y porta CD's.
el credito lo utilizara para la compra de Telas, revuelos, cd's y porta cd's.
la sra. Rosmery D. D. se dedica a la venta de productos por catalogo como ser desodorantes, lociones, perfumes, articulos para el hogar, cremas entre otros, tambien tiene un trabajo a medio tiempo en una pizzeria.
el credito lo utilizara para comprar mercaderia para tener mejores ventas y mas ganancias.
tiene clientes fijos que son sus compañeros de trabajo.
la sra. Nancy Lizeth G. se dedica a la venta de joyas (fantasia fina) y joyas de Plata desde hace seis meses, ya cuenta con clientes fijos que trabajan en varias empresas privadas y gubernamentales.
Nancy da crédito de quince días y tambien vende de contado.
el prestamo lo utilizara para comprar accesorios como ser juegos de cadenas, dijes, aritos , pulseras y anillos.
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Prisma Honduras, S.A.This loan is administered by Prisma Honduras. Prisma is one of Kiva's first field partners in Central America and has funded over 2,500 entrepreneurs through Kiva since 2008. Prisma funds smaller than average loans for micro-entrepreneurs to help them grow businesses in urban and rural areas. To improve living conditions in Honduras, the organization strives to empower women who lack access to traditional financial services, and promotes solar panels to deliver clean, affordable electricity to rural areas. Through its four branches in southern and central Honduras, Prisma provides access to financial products to some of the poorest and most isolated communities in the country.
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Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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