Audio Protocol Research Articles

Рассмотрение дел по спорам в сфере государственного оборонного заказа в закрытом судебном заседании

The mechanism for protecting office information in the field of defence cannot be complete without ensuring the confidentiality of information when considering legal disputes, including disputes about a state defence order. The article substantiates the point of view about the possibility of moving to a closed trial when considering disputes in which information of limited access appears at the discretion of the court. The analysis of the limitations of procedural rights that result from the transition to the consideration of the case in a closed court session indicates the futility of waiting for the relevant petition from interested persons, which may lead to a violation of the priority of preserving official secrets in the field of defence. A negative assessment is given to the illegal deprivation of the participants in the process of the right to receive an audio protocol of the court session.

The impact of distancing upon the organizational-legal means of the Russian judicial system

This article examines the impact of the need for maintaining physical and social distancing between people caused by the epidemiological situation upon the organizational-legal means of the Russian judicial system. This implies the concept of “smart” regulation with the use of both traditional means of legal regulation (prohibitions, permits, obligations, sanctions, incentives) and tools of psychological, educational, and information influence. At the same time, distancing is viewed as a factor that prompts changes in the forms of legal activity, as well as the result of transformations taking place in society. Such organizational-legal means affected by the need for physical and social distancing, suggest using video conferencing systems, online sessions, change in the procedure for submitting procedural and other documents, familiarization with audio protocols of court hearing and other documents in digital format, as well as restrictions for presence in the courthouse. The author determines the advantages and disadvantages of the innovations. The conclusion is made that such restrictions must be temporary only to avoid violating the principles of transparency and openness of judicial proceedings.

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Деятельность Конституционного Суда Российской Федерации в период пандемии COVID-19

Even during the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) all courts including the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation carried out their activities. However, the format of their functioning has become different than before. The conditions of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) forced a great deal of organisations to pass to a different operating mode, encouraged them to speed up digitalization processes, including the implementation of the main stages of digitalization of justice, comprising the provision of electronic access to judicial acts, the replacement of paper-based protocols with audio protocols, the regulation of convenient electronic document flow as well as a stable and accessible video conferencing system in courts, the formation of an accessible and convenient system of tracking delays of court hearings and adopted judicial acts, etc. The article gives the monitoring results of the practice of judicial constitutional regulation during the coronavirus pandemic, emphasizes the study of the essence of controversial legal relations. Based on the results obtained, the author comes to the conclusion that even in atypical, difficult conditions for the whole country and the entire world, citizens and their associations expressed dissatisfaction with the regulation of relations of various industry branches, urging the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation to remove unconstitutional norms from the legal space, to eliminate problems of a law-making nature, which are the causes of problems of law enforcement practice.

MRI with Synchronized Audio to Evaluate Velopharyngeal Insufficiency

To demonstrate the feasibility of simultaneous-acquired magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and high-quality synchronized audio recording for evaluating velopharyngeal closure. Institutional Review Board-approved case series. Tertiary care hospital. Three healthy adult volunteers with a normal speech pattern. MRI with simultaneous recorded audio files evaluating velopharyngeal closure. Precise imaging and audio coordination of specific phonatory tasks. Synchronization of MRI and audio in all three adults. Our novel imaging and audio protocol provides simultaneous acquired MRI with synchronized high quality audio for evaluating velopharyngeal closure. This technique may provide the opportunity to improve diagnosis and surgical planning in patients with velopharyngeal insufficiency.

Exploiting Temporal Feature Integration for Generalized Sound Recognition

This paper presents a methodology that incorporates temporal feature integration for automated generalized sound recognition. Such a system can be of great use to scene analysis and understanding based on the acoustic modality. The performance of three feature sets based on Mel filterbank, MPEG-7 audio protocol, and wavelet decomposition is assessed. Furthermore we explore the application of temporal integration using the following three different strategies: (a) short-term statistics, (b) spectral moments, and (c) autoregressive models. The experimental setup is thoroughly explained and based on the concurrent usage of professional sound effects collections. In this way we try to form a representative picture of the characteristics of ten sound classes. During the first phase of our implementation, the process of audio classification is achieved through statistical models (HMMs) while a fusion scheme that exploits the models constructed by various feature sets provided the highest average recognition rate. The proposed system not only uses diverse groups of sound parameters but also employs the advantages of temporal feature integration.

DECface: A system for synthetic face applications

DECface is a system that facilitates the development of applications requiring a real-time lip-synchronized synthetic face. Based on the X Window System and the audio facilities of DECtalk and AF, DECface has been built with a simple interface protocol to support the development of face-related applications. This paper describes our approach to face synthesis, the face and audio protocol, and some sample code examples.