Real Voice Research Articles

Listening "At the Bedside": Podcasts as an Emerging Tool for Medical Ethics Education.

Medical ethics education is crucial for medical students and trainees, helping to shape attitudes, beliefs, values, and professional identities. Exploration of ethical dilemmas and approaches to resolving them provides a broader understanding of the social and cultural contexts in which medicine is practiced, as well as the ethical implications of medical decisions, fostering critical thinking and self-reflection skills imperative to providing patient-centered care. However, exposure to medical ethics topics and their clinical applications can be limited by curricular constraints and the availability of institutional resources and expertise. Podcasts, among other Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMed) resources, are a novel educational tool that offers particular advantages for self-directed learning, a process by which learners engage in asynchronous educational opportunities outside of traditional academic or clinical settings. Podcasts can be readily distributed to wide audiences and played at any time, reducing barriers to access and offering a level of flexibility that is not possible with traditional forms of education and is well-suited to busy schedules. Podcasts can also use real voices and storytelling to make the content memorable and eminently human. This paper describes the development, production process, and impact of Core IM's "At the Bedside," a podcast focusing on issues in medical ethics and the medical humanities, intending to supplement standard bioethics curricula in an accessible, relevant, and engaging way. The authors advocate for broad incorporation of podcasts into medical ethics education.

Deviation from typical organic voices best explains a vocal uncanny valley

The uncanny valley describes the negative evaluation of near humanlike artificial entities. Previous research with synthetic and real voices failed to find an uncanny valley of voices. This may have been due to an incomplete selection of stimuli. In Experiment 1 (n = 50), synthetic, normal, and deviating voices (distorted and pathological) were rated on uncanniness and human likeness and categorized as human or non-human. Results showed a non-monotonic function when the uncanniness was plotted against human likeness indicative of an uncanny valley. However, the shape could be divided into two monotonic functions based on voice type (synthetic vs deviating). Categorization ambiguity could not predict voice uncanniness but moderated the effect of realism on uncanniness. Experiment 2 (n = 35) found that perceived organicness, animacy, and mind attribution of voices significantly moderated the effect of realism on uncanniness. Results indicate a vocal uncanny valley driven by deviations from typical human voices. While voices can fall into an uncanny valley, synthetic voices successfully escape it. Finally, the results support the account that uncanniness is caused by deviations from familiar categories, rather than categorical ambiguity or the misattribution of mind or animacy.

Development of Therapeutic Alliance and Social Presence in a Digital Intervention for Pediatric Concussion: Qualitative Exploratory Study.

Despite the promising benefits of self-guided digital interventions for adolescents recovering from concussion, attrition rates for such interventions are high. Evidence suggests that adults can develop therapeutic alliance with self-guided digital interventions, which is in turn associated with intervention engagement. However, no research has examined whether adolescents develop therapeutic alliance with self-guided digital interventions and what factors are important to its development. Additionally, social presence-the extent to which digital encounters feel like they are occurring in person-may be another relevant factor to understanding the nature of the connection between adolescents and a self-guided digital intervention, though this has yet to be explored. This qualitative study explored the extent to which adolescents recovering from concussion developed therapeutic alliance and social presence during their use of a self-guided digital mindfulness-based intervention. Additionally, this study aimed to determine factors important to adolescents' development of therapeutic alliance and social presence with the intervention. Adolescents aged between 12 and 17.99 years who sustained a concussion were recruited from 2 sites: a pediatric emergency department up to 48 hours after a concussion and a tertiary care clinic over 1 month following a concussion to capture adolescents who had both acute and persisting symptoms after concussion. Participants (N=10) completed a 4-week mindfulness-based intervention delivered through a smartphone app. Within the app, participants listened to audio recordings of mindfulness guides (voice actors) narrating psychoeducation and mindfulness practices. At 4 weeks, participants completed questionnaires and a semistructured interview exploring their experience of therapeutic alliance and social presence with the mindfulness guides in the intervention. Themes identified within the qualitative results revealed that participants developed therapeutic alliance and social presence by "developing a genuine connection" with their mindfulness guides and "sensing real people." Particularly important to the development of therapeutic alliance and social presence were the mindfulness guides' "personal backgrounds and voices," such that participants felt more connected to the guides by knowing information about them and through the guides' calm tone of voice in audio recordings. Quantitative findings supported qualitative results; participants' average score for therapeutic alliance was far above the scale midpoint, while the mixed results for social presence measures aligned with qualitative findings that participants felt that the mindfulness guides seemed real but not quite as real as an in-person connection would. Our data suggest that adolescents can develop therapeutic alliance and social presence when using digital interventions with no direct human contact. Adolescents' development of therapeutic alliance and social presence with self-guided digital interventions can be bolstered by increasing human-like qualities (eg, real voices) within interventions. Maximizing therapeutic alliance and social presence may be a promising way to reduce attrition in self-guided digital interventions while providing accessible treatment.

A Power Struggle Between the Curia and the Bishops of the 2015 Synod of Bishops. Who has the Right to interpret a Synod?

As the Catholic Church prepares and celebrates the 2023-2024 Synod of Bishops, there are still lessons to be learned from past Synods. For example, the balance of power between the institution that is the Synod of Bishops, and the role of the Roman Curia deserves more attention. In 2021, Johan Bonny, bishop of Antwerp, publicly voiced scathing criticism on the Responsum of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to a dubium regarding the blessing of the unions of persons of the same sex. In his criticism, Bonny referred to his own experience on the 2015 Synod of Bishops and asked the real synod to stand up. The bishop made it clear that he did not believe that the Synod was being given a real voice. Therefore, this paper examines the criticism of Bishop Bonny on the Responsum. I pay particular attention to possible institutional tensions between the Synod of Bishops and the Roman Curia. Furthermore, the analysis will point out that the criticism of Bonny cannot be taken lightly because it goes to the core of what the Church is and does. Subsequently, I will show how some tensions have already been partly solved by the new Apostolic constitution Praedicate Evangelium. Finally, I will also devote attention to whether this Responsum was an example of improper power balance and, if so, what this might mean for future Synods of Bishops, their interpretation, and implementation.

Linguistic Perceptions of Irish English in Nineteenth-century Emigrant Letters

In this paper we look at the real voices of Irish English speakers in the nineteenth century. By turning to the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (McCafferty & Amador-Moreno, 2012), we analyse the perceptions that letter writers had of their own language use. We apply a micro-perspective analysis to the language of John Kerr, an Irish emigrant to America, in his letters to his uncle James Graham of Newpark (Co. Antrim, N. Ireland). We examine Kerr’s incisive comment on language use alongside metacommentary found in different Late Modern works, including dictionaries, essays on Irish English, as well as contemporary fictional representations of the variety of English spoken in Ireland during this period. Through this small batch of letters, we explore how the real voices of Irish English speakers echoed an enregistered Irish repertoire that may have raised awareness shaping their perceptions of their own dialect.

Identification of Voice Differences between Deep Voice, Real Voice, and Voice Phishing Female Offenders Impersonating Financial Institutions and Ordinary Females of the Same Age

Identification of Voice Differences between Deep Voice, Real Voice, and Voice Phishing Female Offenders Impersonating Financial Institutions and Ordinary Females of the Same Age

HMP Belmarsh - Real voices from Category A young adults

HMP Belmarsh - Real voices from Category A young adults

‘Uncovering hidden struggles among disaster survivors in Tanzania: Are they vulnerable survivors or resilient victims?

Understanding experiences of disaster survivors as they struggle to bounce back from disaster-caused traumatic experiences, requires concerted and focused efforts involving scholars and practitioners. Developing countries like Tanzania accommodate people who after crisis end up living in misery and not completely recovering. Notwithstanding, however, those labeled resilient or vulnerable usually simply portray a distorted 'face value' reality of the struggles endured. Using a qualitative approach informed by a Chordal Triad of Agency Conceptualization, the paper’s main objective is to uncover hidden struggles among disaster survivors. By recapitulating on the previous study conducted in Kagera14, I extend the argument based on ‘mundane’ experiences to enlighten complexities people encounter as they survive multiple disasters. Findings indicate that understanding vulnerability and resilience encounters among survivors, requires scrutinizing reductionist and exceptionist approaches normally applied by disaster responders often for concealed interests. This process produces vulnerable survivors and/or resilient victims. The paper therefore, unpacks post-disaster struggles among survivors considering their real voices mostly as always ignored by actors. I conclude that struggles of people cannot be summed up without a critical examination of their experiences.

Virtual Tour with Voice Assistant using Extended Reality

We are all aware that virtual reality is a new emerging technology in the modern era. Virtual reality has enormous potential across many industries like Education, Hospitality, Gaming, Army, Tourism, etc. It is the medium of creating our own world, our own customized reality. In this paper, we discussed the extended reality concepts to make the virtual tour of the college campus with real voice assistant service that based on IoT concept. It is the key to experiencing, feeling and touching the college premises, using VR Technology. With this project any of guests want to visit the college premises, He/She can do virtually with our assistant service. In hectic schedules, colleges are facing difficulties during visiting the college to the parents because all faculty members have their other work to do. With this problem, the virtual tour is a solution. So we make the virtual tour with unique voice assistant facility on the concept of IoT technology which will provide the information regarding the place where the visitor will enter for visit by the help of VR Headset.

The Effect of Deep Learning Methods on Deepfake Audio Detection for Digital Investigation

Voice cloning methods have been used in a range of ways, from customized speech interfaces for marketing to video games. Current voice cloning systems are smart enough to learn speech characteristics from a few samples and produce perceptually unrecognizable speech. These systems pose new protection and privacy risks to voice-driven interfaces. Fake audio has been used for malicious purposes and is difficult to classify what is real and fake during a digital forensic investigation. This paper reviews the issue of deep-fake audio classification and evaluates the current methods of deep-fake audio detection for forensic investigation. Audio file features were extracted and visually presented using MFCC, Mel-spectrum, Chromagram, and spectrogram representations to further study the differences. Harnessing the different deep learning techniques from existing literature were compared using five iterative tests to determine the mean accuracy and the effects thereof. The results showed a Custom Architecture gave better results for the Chromagram, Spectrogram, and Me-Spectrum images and the VGG-16 architecture gave the best results for the MFCC image feature. This paper contributes to further assisting forensic investigators in differentiating between synthetic and real voices.

Ecomuseum model for a bottom-up heritage management. The Ecomuseo Casilino Ad Duas Lauros Case

Ecomuseums are a way to strengthen the social role of cultural institutions, as they work for the community, and with the community. Capacity building and participatory heritage management are promoted by ecomuseums and allow local community to be the protagonist in the narration of the territory, giving it its real voice (Corsane et al., 2009). Avoiding the process of musealization, and the crystallization of the territory (Tessarolo &Ruy, 2020), ecomuseums are a way to promote and discover the living heritage. This paper aims to demonstrate the work of Ecomuseo Casilino ad Duas Lauros in Rome, in the heritage preservation and enhancement of the district. This urban ecomuseum links many headquarters, and in each one has a Comunità di Cura (Community of Care), that is composed by heritage ambassadors and collaborate with the Ecomuseum. The methodology for finding and safeguarding the heritage, developed by the Casilino, is participatory and balanced between local community and the ecomuseum scientific committee. This contribution will illustrate some of the ecomuseums’ initiatives in bottom-up heritage management collected in field research. Furthermore, it will present how the role of this ecomuseum can be an alternative for avoiding city musealization, through the promoting of the (living) heritage. Keywords: participatory heritage management; community training; ecomuseums; urban renaissance; capacity building.

NQPC-5 JAPAN BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE: ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2021-2022 AND PATIENT VOICE

Abstract Brain tumors are a major shock at diagnosis for patients and families, and their journey is impacted in various and complex ways, not only physically but mentally, financially and socially. The Japan Brain Tumor Alliance is a non-profit organization, established in 2006 to support patients and their families. As our key activity, JBTA offers patient-gathering meetings on the regular basis so that patients and families could openly share their concerns and experience. As JBTA collaborates with healthcare professionals, the up-to-date information is provided to patients and families and their needs are shared to the healthcare professionals. JBTA's achievements in 2021-2022 include the review of clinical guidelines, information-sharing events with the Japan Clinical Oncology Group and a seminar by a certified specialist regarding the social support system in Japan. With the active collaboration with other patient advocate groups, multiple petitions have been submitted to pursue further development of drugs for brain tumors. JBTA is also focusing on to provide the information to community through its website and SNS, including the stories of personal journey described by patients and families.Each of brain tumor patients and families has their own needs. Through the discussion at JBTA's monthly meetings and our online communication, they could express their real voice to the peers. JBTA picks up these issues that patients and families are facing and presents the necessity of working on their unmet needs.

Wagner's Furious Host

Wagner's Furious Host

BACKLASHES TO AURAT MARCH IN PAKISTAN: OPINIONS OF ORGANIZERS AND OPINION LEADERS

This study attempted to explain the difference in opinion between the Aurat March organizers and the religious leaders. In-depth interviews were conducted with Aurat March organizers and religious leaders. Thematic analysis is implied to analyze interviews. The study concluded that in the perspective of Aurat March organizers, Aurat March is a symbolic movement for strong resistance against discrimination exploitation and suppression of women in private and public lives. Aurat March is the continuity of the legacy of the feminist movement in the country. Posters of Aurat March were the real voices of women’s everyday experiences and undressed issues. On the contrary, religious leaders believed that all the raised demands in Aurat March were immoral and challenging to religion. From their perspective, Aurat March aiming to destroy the family system and create chaos against the religion. Keywords: Aurat March, women, religious leaders, women’s movement, women’s rights.

Speaking In-Between: Vernacular Spirituality of a Woman in Late Chosǒn Korea

precis: This essay presents a transcultural and transhistorical case that exhibits the impact of everyday language use in the practice of Christian spirituality, which stems from the biblical sermo humilis of late antiquity Christians, across and throughout the history of Christian mission and evangelism. In the specific case of Yi Suni, a Korean female martyr, I argue, this manner of sermo humilis kindles such Spirit-led influence in a mission field without a Western missionary’s intervention, as the Christian message spreads through the raw language of ordinary people. Even though there has been some research on Yi Suni’s in-between identity as an ordinary Confucian woman and a Catholic individual subject, there has not been enough attention to how her manner of speech in her letters reflects her struggles in the liminal space of her transcultural context. Her letters written in the real voice of Korean vernacular ǒnmun exhibit the rawness of the impact of the appropriated Catholicism in the everyday life of a Korean Confucian woman and her family. This rawness of her language, along with the core biblical message, I suggest, is the hallmark of Christian spirituality that Yi Suni revealed without direct influence from any Western missionary.

리더십 촉진요인과 저해요인에 대한 인식

This is an exploratory study to help leaders to suggest the way of leadership for the followers, MZ generation, in a non-face-to-face situation that has accelerated due to COVID-19. As a result of this study, trust and concise communication were derived for followers in relational aspect as factors that can promote leadership in non-face-to-face situations, and clear work direction and individualized performance management were derived as factors that promoted leadership in task aspect. Futhermore, on the personal aspects, the personality and the work expertise of the leader were presented. On the other hand, the individualized performance management, leader personality, and work expertise that derived in this study are significant because these reflects the real voice and situation of the work place that had not presented in the recent study related the non-face-to-face situation. In addition, this study contributes to the leadership of the organization by suggesting what leaders in the organization should apply and not to overlook in their leadership in non-face-to-face situations.

Avoiding artefacts

Can you distinguish experimental errors from the real voice of nature? Robert P Crease wants your stories.

압바스 키아로스타미의〈클로즈업〉과 영화적 (재)구성의 시학

Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-up (1990), which was made into a film an event actually happened, shows a unique production aspect: rather than professional actors, the parties involved in the event directly re-enact the past event in their own words and actions, where the event actually took place. The court scenes in this case are also captured on camera. Therefore, in this film, the event, characters, backgrounds, lines, and actions are all authentic. However, a close look at the way these materials are dealt with reveals that they are the product of elaborate construction, especially in the first sequence, the arrest scene in the middle of the movie, and the last sequence. Therefore, Close-up provides a good opportunity to see, beyond the simple dichotomy of fiction and documentary, what the poetics of a film that respects reality can be. In Close-up, when presenting events that occur simultaneously with film production, such as a trial scene, Kiarostami adds devices to prevent the spectator from not forgetting that these are anyway mediated by the film, by showing the shooting equipments or the staff working on the shooting, or by manipulating the sound. On the other hand, when reconstituting past events, he places moments where nothing happens without being immersed in the development of the story, just staring at an empty spray can for a long time the very moment where a dramatic event takes place. In short, in Close-up, starting from the deepest part of reality, the effort to present real images and real voices as much as possible, is revealed without any omissions or rewrites, but at the same time, these efforts appear delicately combined with rigorous mental construction work, which always requires the active participation of the spectator.

The Portrayal of Real-Life People in Audiovisual Translation

This is a study on real people, in particular their voices, as an important but so far undervalued factor in audiovisual translation, dubbing in particular. Along with the suspension of disbelief and credibility, expected goals for a dubbed version would seem to be authenticity of language, including not only words and discourse but also elements of delivery, such as accent and prosody (as a part of character portrayal); in short, a well-rounded, strategic proposal that can complement the picture at all times. The result of this study is that, compared to their AVT versions, much more care seems to go into reflecting the nuances of real voices and orality in the source texts, especially when famous and historical figures of the recent past are involved. In this respect, much work still needs to be done, for criticism to be fair and awareness of intervening factors greater, both in terms of professional quality and in academic research. Examples are drawn mainly from the portrayal of real historical figures from the United Kingdom, especially Churchill and Queen Elizabeth II and their representation in fiction and historical biopics.

Exploring Bangladeshi university students\u2019 willingness to communicate (WTC) in English classes through a qualitative study

English is regarded as a compulsory subject in Bangladesh, which learning starts at the very early stage of a learner. However, after spending almost 12 years in learning English, learners’ oral skill is not seen up to the mark when they enter the university for tertiary education. Sometimes, they are noticed to have their unwillingness to communicate with others. Hence, the current study aims to explore the experiences of Bangladeshi university students’ willingness to communicate (WTC) by employing a multiple case study method. 10 undergraduate students from a private university were interviewed. Apart from semi-structured interview, classroom observations were also carried out for data collection. The obtained data were analysed through the content analysis process. The findings show that students’ earlier experiences of learning English have been positive; however, they think grammar-based English learning is an obstacle in the development of their oral communication. The study also reveals that learners’ WTC is greatly influenced by classroom environment that enhances or declines their interest to communicate with others. Based on the findings, the study suggests that incorporating more drills in English classes by engaging learners with real-life based conversations, dialogues and so forth can enhance learners’ WTC. Hence, learners’ real voice would help the policymakers and language instructors to take the issue into consideration and way-out timely measures.