Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a substrate including a top surface; a semiconductor stack including a first semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second semiconductor layer formed on the substrate, wherein a portion of the top surface is exposed; a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) formed on the semiconductor stack and contacting the portion of the top surface of the substrate; a metal layer formed on the distributed Bragg reflector (DBR), contacting the portion of the top surface of the substrate and being insulated with the semiconductor stack; and an insulation layer formed on the metal layer and contacting the portion of the top surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A method for performing user-input control in an electronic device and an associated apparatus are provided, where the method may include the steps of: obtaining at least one touch parameter of a touch event regarding a touch-sensitive module of the electronic device; determining a touch force value associated with the touch event according to the aforementioned at least one touch parameter; and selecting a predetermined operation from a plurality of predetermined operations according to the touch force value, to control the electronic device to perform the predetermined operation in response to the touch force value. For example, the aforementioned at least one touch parameter of the touch event may be obtained from the touch-sensitive module or may be obtained by processing one or more detection signals received from the touch-sensitive module.

Abstract: A method for controlling an electronic device with aid of thermal detection, and an associated apparatus and an associated computer program product are provided, where the method includes the steps of: performing thermal detection for the electronic device, to generate at least one thermal detection result; and based on the at least one thermal detection result, selectively waking up the electronic device, not waking up the electronic device, controlling a screen of the electronic device to remain on, or turning off the screen of the electronic device. The apparatus includes: at least one thermal sensor capable of performing thermal detection for the electronic device, to generate the at least one thermal detection result; and a processing circuit, coupled to the at least one thermal sensor. The computer program product has program instructions for instructing a processing circuit of the electronic device to perform one or more operations of the method.

Abstract: An automatic speech segmentation and verification system and method is disclosed, which has a known text script and a recorded speech corpus corresponding to the known text script. A speech unit segmentor segments the recorded speech corpus into N test speech unit segments referring to the phonetic information of the known text script. Then, a segmental verifier is applied to obtain a confidence measure of syllable segmentation for verifying the correctness of the cutting points of test speech unit segments. A phonetic verifier obtains a confidence measure of syllable verification by using verification models for verifying whether the recorded speech corpus is correctly recorded. Finally, a speech unit inspector integrates the confidence measure of syllable segmentation and the confidence measure of syllable verification to determine whether the test speech unit segment is accepted or not.

Abstract: A method of speech segment selection for concatenative synthesis based on prosody-aligned distance measure is disclosed. This method is based on comparison of speech segments segmented from a speech corpus, wherein speech segments are fully prosody-aligned to each other before distortion measure. With prosody alignment embedded in selection process, distortion resulting from possible prosody modification in synthesis could be taken into account objectively in selection phase. In order to carry out the purpose of the present invention, automatic segmentation, pitch marking and PSOLA method work together for prosody alignment. Two distortion measures, MFCC and PSQM are used for comparing two prosody-aligned segments of speech because of human perceptual consideration.

Abstract: An automatic speech segmentation and verification system and method is disclosed, which has a known text script and a recorded speech corpus corresponding to the known text script. A speech unit segmentor segments the recorded speech corpus into N test speech unit segments referring to the phonetic information of the known text script. Then, a segmental verifier is applied to obtain a confidence measure of syllable segmentation for verifying the correctness of the cutting points of test speech unit segments. A phonetic verifier obtains a confidence measure of syllable verification by using verification models for verifying whether the recorded speech corpus is correctly recorded. Finally, a speech unit inspector integrates the confidence measure of syllable segmentation and the confidence measure of syllable verification to determine whether the test speech unit segment is accepted or not.

Abstract: A method of speech segment selection for concatenative synthesis based on prosody-aligned distance measure is disclosed. This method is based on comparison of speech segments segmented from a speech corpus, wherein speech segments are fully prosody-aligned to each other before distortion measure. With prosody alignment embedded in selection process, distortion resulting from possible prosody modification in synthesis could be taken into account objectively in selection phase. In order to carry out the purpose of the present invention, automatic segmentation, pitch marking and PSOLA method work together for prosody alignment. Two distortion measures, MFCC and PSQM are used for comparing two prosody-aligned segments of speech because of human perceptual consideration.