Essays about: "audio book"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words audio book.

1. 1. Exploring Auditive Story Worlds : Design Sensitivities for Multi-linear Real Time, Mixed Reality, Interactive Storytelling Systems

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

   Author : Ariel Blomkvist Rova; [2020]
   Keywords : Mixed Reality; Audionarrative; Research through Design; Interactive Storytelling;

   Abstract : Like reading a book, stories told orally or acted out auditory invite subjective co-construction of narrative events through imagination. While an interesting characteristic, audio-based, fictive storytelling is not well explored in HCI. READ MORE

3. 2. Text and Speech Alignment Methods for Speech Translation Corpora Creation : Augmenting English LibriVox Recordings with Italian Textual Translations

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Giuseppe Della Corte; [2020]
   Keywords : speech translation; parallel corpora; bilingual sentence alignment; sentence embeddings; cosine similarity; forced alignment; text collection; corpora creation; audio signal processing;

   Abstract : The recent uprise of end-to-end speech translation models requires a new generation of parallel corpora, composed of a large amount of source language speech utterances aligned with their target language textual translations. We hereby show a pipeline and a set of methods to collect hundreds of hours of English audio-book recordings and align them with their Italian textual translations, using exclusively public domain resources gathered semi-automatically from the web. READ MORE

4. 3. Predicting and Explaining Customer Churn for an Audio/e-book Subscription Service using Statistical Analysis and Machine Learning

   University essay from KTH/Matematisk statistik

   Author : Kajsa Barr; Hampus Pettersson; [2019]
   Keywords : Statistics; Machine learning; customer churn; random forest; logistic regression; Statistik; Maskininlärning; random forest; logistisk regression; kundbortfall;

   Abstract : The current technology shift has contributed to increased consumption of media and entertainment through various mobile devices, and especially through subscription based services. Storytel is a company offering a subscription based streaming service for audio and e-books, and has grown rapidly in the last couple of years. READ MORE

5. 4. E-book market adoption in Sweden

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för industriell ekonomi

   Author : Gabriel Bergqvist; Diego Fernando Botero Aristizábal; [2018]
   Keywords : e-book;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the knowledge about why customers select e-books, paper books or audiobooks, and what differences exist for different customer groups. Considering that publishing is a really old business, well established hundreds of years before the internet, it is not surprising that disruptive new concepts as e-books, audiobooks and the internet require the companies to change their way of doing and looking upon business. READ MORE

6. 5. What makes an (audio)book popular?

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Statistik och maskininlärning

   Author : Arian Barakat; [2018]
   Keywords : Audiobooks; Bestsellers; Algorithmic Criticism; Large-scale Literary Analysis; Natural Language Processing; Gaussian Processes; Topic Modeling;

   Abstract : Audiobook reading has traditionally been used for educational purposes but has in recent times grown into a popular alternative to the more traditional means of consuming literature. In order to differentiate themselves from other players in the market, but also provide their users enjoyable literature, several audiobook companies have lately directed their efforts on producing own content. READ MORE