Simply, simple. Sobre la butaca de Claesson, Roivisto y Rune para David Design, Falsterbo.

Simply, simple. Sobre la butaca de Claesson, Roivisto y Rune para David Design, Falsterbo.

El lenguaje clásico es atemporal. Entrevista a David Watkin

Watkin se ha distinguido como uno de los más certeros y sobrios polemistas y críticos arquitectónicos, como lo demuestra su celebérrimo ensayo Morality and Architecture (1977), una de las pocas obras imprescindibles en el debate arquitectónico del siglo XX, así como el gran numero de actos y campañas desarrolladas por él en defensa de la supervivencia de la tradición arquitectónica clásica y en solidaridad con los arriesgados arquitectos que hoy en día la representan. Esta faceta pública ha llevado a Watkin a las fronteras de la política y lo ha situado en el centro de un convulso debate público que aún se halla en pleno desarrollo, rodeando cada una de las obras de arquitectos estrella que se levantan en Inglaterra.

Planning and projects: three visionaires Friedmann, J., Trueba, I. and Ramos, A.

It is impossible to talk about planning as a scientific meta-discipline without mentioning one of the most influential worldwide figures in the second half of the twentieth century: John Friedmann. His contribution to the planning concept on his "Planning as Social Learning" theory is still very relevant. This paper shows the intellectual connection between Friedmann and Angel Ramos and Ignacio Trueba, two of the Spanish intellectual drivers in the engineering project knowledge area, who contributed to founding the Engineering Projects Spanish Association. The three of them share a broad vision of the project and abandon the "blue print" planning model. They also see the project as a transformational tool that requires a different planning style to the one which prevailed in the 70s - both in public and private domains. They were pioneers in structuring Knowledge / Action in a different way, both in academic institutions where disciples helped to bring about change- and with direct action via projects.

Development of a genre-dependent TTS system with cross-speaker speaking-style transplantation

One of the biggest challenges in speech synthesis is the production of contextually-appropriate naturally sounding synthetic voices. This means that a Text-To-Speech system must be able to analyze a text beyond the sentence limits in order to select, or even modulate, the speaking style according to a broader context. Our current architecture is based on a two-step approach: text genre identification and speaking style synthesis according to the detected discourse genre. For the final implementation, a set of four genres and their corresponding speaking styles were considered: broadcast news, live sport commentaries, interviews and political speeches. In the final TTS evaluation, the four speaking styles were transplanted to the neutral voices of other speakers not included in the training database. When the transplanted styles were compared to the neutral voices, transplantation was significantly preferred and the similarity to the target speaker was as high as 78%.