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Immigration Agents Use Banned Chokeholds, Other Moves That Restrict Breathing

The technique is known as a carotid restraint. The two carotid arteries carry 70% of the brain’s blood flow; block them, and ...

This Cordless Water Flosser Is Like A 'Mouth Bath You Can't Get From Conventional Flossing'

Flossing is not the most beguiling personal chore. The results can be, sure, but the process itself is anything but. And, ...

“He feels it should be in the hands of people who will put it to good use”: John Paul Jones’ studio gear goes up for auction – including a rare £24,000 Moog Model 15

There are a number of rare collector’s items in the sale, including a modified Moog Model 15 synthesizer purchased by John in ...
IEEE

RingFormer: A Neural Vocoder With Ring Attention and Convolution-Augmented Transformer

Abstract: While transformers demonstrate outstanding performance across various audio tasks, their application to neural vocoders remains challenging. Neural vocoders require the generation of long ...
IEEE

F0 Controllable General-Purpose Vocoder Enhanced Using Speaker Vectors

Abstract: In a neural vocoder capable of generating high-quality waveform, constructing a multi-speaker vocoder by training with data from various speakers reduces the necessary amount of target ...
Yahoo! Sports

Rams vs. Seahawks: Seahawks pull off a comeback for the ages, beat Rams with walk-off 2-point conversion in OT

When Sam Darnold threw his second interception Thursday night, there was no reason to believe the Seattle Seahawks could come back. The Los Angeles Rams had clearly been the better team. Darnold was ...
GitHub

RepCodec: A Speech Representation Codec for Speech Tokenization

RepCodec is a speech tokenization method for converting a speech waveform into a sequence of discrete semantic tokens. The main idea is to train a representation codec which learns a vector ...