Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a voice input having first audio features at a client system, generating a text response corresponding to the voice input, wherein the text response is associated with style features, generating an output audio waveform of the text response by a text-to-speech model on the client system, wherein the output audio waveform is generated based on the first audio features and the style features, wherein the output audio waveform comprises second audio features, and rendering the output audio waveform at the client system in response to the voice input.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a voice input from a user and determining a first style of the voice input, based on first features extracted from the voice input. A second style for a voice response having second features may then be determined based on the first style. Finally, the voice response may be generated based on the second features of the second style, and this voice response may be provided in response to the voice input.

Abstract: The invention relates to a piston for an internal combustion engine formed from a lower part and an upper part which are threadingly connected to one another to form a piston. In one example, an anti-rotation safeguard device is used to prevent unwanted rotation of the upper part relative to the lower part. In another example, a forged extension and a nut are used to obtain a prestress during operation of the piston. In another example, a cooling gallery including extension bores are used to increase the cooling capacity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a piston for an internal combustion engine formed from a lower part and an upper part which are threadingly connected to one another to form a piston. In one example, an anti-rotation safeguard device is used to prevent unwanted rotation of the upper part relative to the lower part. In another example, a forged extension and a nut are used to obtain a prestress during operation of the piston. In another example, a cooling gallery including extension bores are used to increase the cooling capacity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a cooling channel piston, wherein a blank of the cooling channel piston, which has a cavity designed as a cooling channel, is provided and wherein an inlet or outlet opening is introduced into the blank in the direction of the cooling channel, characterized in that the opening is introduced into the blank by means of a CNC-controlled circular milling process by using a special milling cutter having end cutting edges arranged in a shaft profile.

Abstract: The arrangement relates to a method for producing a cooling duct piston for an internal combustion engine, having the steps of producing a top piston part by introducing a combustion bowl, a cooling space of a part of a cooling duct and overflow ducts, producing a bottom piston part by introducing a part of a cooling duct, and joining the piston parts, wherein at least one transfer duct is created by bores. A cooling duct piston produced by the method is disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a piston for an internal combustion engine formed from a lower part and an upper part which are threadingly connected to one another to form a piston. In one example, an anti-rotation safeguard device is used to prevent unwanted rotation of the upper part relative to the lower part. In another example, a forged extension and a nut are used to obtain a prestress during operation of the piston. In another example, a cooling gallery including extension bores are used to increase the cooling capacity.

Abstract: A social networking system obtains user pronunciations of terms whose pronunciations might vary among different users, such as names of users. The social networking system additionally obtains demographic information about the users from whom the pronunciations were obtained, as well as social graph information for those users, such as information about connections of those users in the social graph. Based on the obtained pronunciations, the demographic information, and the social graph information, the social networking system determines, for a user having that name (or other term in question), one or more suggested pronunciations for the name that are likely to be the pronunciations that that user would use.

Abstract: A social networking system obtains user pronunciations of terms whose pronunciations might vary among different users, such as names of users. The social networking system additionally obtains demographic information about the users from whom the pronunciations were obtained, as well as social graph information for those users, such as information about connections of those users in the social graph. Based on the obtained pronunciations, the demographic information, and the social graph information, the social networking system determines, for a user having that name (or other term in question), one or more suggested pronunciations for the name that are likely to be the pronunciations that that user would use.

Abstract: The arrangement relates to a method for producing a cooling duct piston for an internal combustion engine, having the steps of producing a top piston part by introducing a combustion bowl, a cooling space of a part of a cooling duct and overflow ducts, producing a bottom piston part by introducing a part of a cooling duct, and joining the piston parts, wherein at least one transfer duct is created by bores. A cooling duct piston produced by the method is disclosed.

Abstract: A cooling channel piston has a radially circumferential cooling channel located behind a ring field. The cooling channel piston is forged from a steel material and the cooling channel is worked in by machining between an upper part below the ring field and a lower part above the piston bosses and the piston skirts. The cooling channel extends behind the ring field in the direction of an upper face of the upper part, it being provided that the cooling channel piston has above its piston bosses and piston skirts an outwardly oriented support region. A closing element, which closes the cooling channel after the production thereof, is fastened between the lower edge of the ring field and the support region.

Abstract: A cooling channel piston has a radially circumferential cooling channel located behind a ring field. The cooling channel piston is forged from a steel material and the cooling channel is worked in by machining between an upper part below the ring field and a lower part above the piston bosses and the piston skirts. The cooling channel extends behind the ring field in the direction of an upper face of the upper part, it being provided that the cooling channel piston has above its piston bosses and piston skirts an outwardly oriented support region. A closing element, which closes the cooling channel after the production thereof, is fastened between the lower edge of the ring field and the support region.

Abstract: A pipe includes a pipe wall having an inner wall surface. Ribs are disposed on the inner wall surface forming a multiple thread. The ribs define a mean inside pipe diameter and the ribs have a lead which is equal to between 0.6 and 0.9 times the square root of the mean inside pipe diameter. Such pipes may be used in a fossil-fuel steam generator, a solar-heated steam generator, or a heated steam generator serving as a waste-heat steam generator, a heat exchanger or a steam generator for absorbing after-heat in a nuclear power plant.

Abstract: A once-through steam generator having a combustion chamber. A containing wall of the combustion chamber is formed from vertically disposed evaporator tubes welded to one another in a gas-tight manner. The combustion chamber is to be capable of being used safely and reliably in a pressure range of between about 200 bar and 221 bar, while, moreover, a particularly high efficiency is to be achieved. For this purpose, according to the invention, a mass flow density m of a flow medium has the following relationship m=200+8.42 ·1012·q3[d/(d−2s)]s2·Tmax−5 in the evaporator tubes. In this case, q is the heat flow density acting on the evaporator tubes, Tmax is an admissible maximum temperature characteristic of the tube material, d is the outside diameter of the evaporator tubes and s is the wall thickness of the evaporator tubes.

Abstract: A process and an apparatus for the cosmetic treatment of acne vulgaris utilize irradiation of the affected skin areas with light characterized by a combination of two emission spectra, one in a blue region and the other in a red region.

Abstract: A once-through steam generator has a vertical flue formed of tubes which are oriented vertically and which are connected in parallel for guiding a flow of flow medium therethrough. The tubes have a surface structure on an inner wall surface which causes flow turbulence and eddy currents in the flow medium. The surface structure includes first and second, mutually superimposed, contrary ribbings. The first ribbing encloses an acute angle with the tube axis, and the second ribbing extends parallel to the tube axis. The first ribbing forms an onflow flank angle with the tube wall which is flatter than a flow-off flank angle. Elevations of the ribbings rise at least 0.7 mm above the tube wall surface. A mass flow density of the medium in the tubes is adjusted as a function of the inner tube diameter, by maintaining the mass flow density below a predetermined limit curve.

Abstract: A once-through stem generator includes a vertical gas flue having a total given height, a bottom, a lower part having a height equal to less than 70% of the total given height, an upper part, and fossil fuel burners disposed on the lower part. The lower and upper parts are formed of gas-tight tube walls with tubes. The tubes of the lower part rise obliquely, while the tubes of the upper part are vertical. The lower part has a lower end limited by the bottom, and the upper part has an upper end limited a partition of the vertical gas flue, by a cross-sectional restriction of the tube walls, or by a lower edge of a heating surface within the vertical gas flue.

Abstract: A chassis for a vehicle with variable undercarriage geometry comprises a cross-frame member extending between and interconnecting undercarriage support beams which are provided with vehicle propulsion means, the cross-frame member including means permitting a change of its length so as to provide for adjustment of the track width of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle with a variable undercarriage geometry has two elongated undercarriage support beams which are pivotally supported at one end at opposite sides of a vehicle body by means of pivot motors connected to the vehicle body and extending into and pivotally supporting the support beams, the pivot motors being operatively connected to the support beams through reduction gear units for pivoting the support beams and drive motors are disposed at the free ends of the support beams and have drive wheels rotatably supported on their housings and operatively connected to the drive motor for the propulsion of the vehicle, both pivot and drive motors being disposed essentially within the outlines of said undercarriages.

Abstract: In order to produce hard solderable metal coatings on a ceramic there is applied to the ceramic base a thin layer of a palladium alloy containing 20-70% of cobalt and/or iron. The coating is preferably applied by vapor deposition or sputtering. The adhesiveness of the coatings is still further improved if there is added to the alloy 3-20% of chromium, manganese and/or titanium.