Abstract: Vocoder-based speech synthesis has become a promising technique to accommodate the demands of high-quality speech analysis, manipulation, and synthesis. However, most existing works focus on ...

When it comes to the machines used to make their music, there are few who compare to Kraftwerk in the secrecy stakes. The iconic German synth masters' almost complete lack of studio interviews on the ...

Also a saxophone standout, he served as stylistic bridge between the Benny Goodman swing era and the genre-blurring present. By Alex Williams Ken Peplowski, a critically acclaimed jazz clarinetist ...

Welcome! We’re excited that you’re considering auditioning to join the clarinet section of the Boise State University Keith Stein Blue Thunder Marching Band. The audition process is designed to assess ...

Fox Products has been manufacturing musical instruments for more than 76 years – bassoons, the larger contrabassoons, oboes and English horns. Seven steady decades with four primary products, made in ...

Abstract: ClariNet provides high-quality speech but it is based on a tricky knowledge-distillation training method with auxiliary losses and large computational requirements. In this work, we apply ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Clarinetist James Zimmermann is suing the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra for alleged discriminatory refusal to hire him as Principal Clarinet after his performance in a blind ...

Clarinet player James Zimmermann is suing the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra over allegedly refusing to hire him over his past stance against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Zimmermann announced ...

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – News 6 is learning it was more than a clarinet that put a middle school in Seminole County on lockdown earlier this month. On Dec. 9, police rushed to Lawton Chiles Middle ...

A Florida middle school was locked down last week after an AI security system called ZeroEyes mistook a clarinet for a gun, reviving criticism that AI may not be worth the high price schools pay for ...

Students at Lawton Chiles Middle School in Florida were sent scrambling into lockdown last week, after an alert from an AI surveillance system detected a student carrying a gun. There’s just one issue ...

Ripple effect: An AI – based weapon detection system mistakenly triggered a campus lockdown at a Florida middle school after identifying a clarinet as a firearm, raising doubts about the effectiveness ...