SpeechTechMag.com: Global Voice Recognition Market Forecasted to Reach $113 Billion by 2017

SpeechTechMag.com: Global Voice Recognition Market Forecasted to Reach $113 Billion by 2017

Football speech: I'm a champion ! - A.S Villebon Volleyball Essonne : un club de volley familial !

Football speech: I'm a champion ! - A.S Villebon Volleyball Essonne : un club de volley familial !:



Today gentlemen, I am honored to coach you, more honored to take you onto the field of battle. There is another honor to be bestowed upon you, that is the answer that comes with that question
WHO AM I ? I'M A CHAMPION !
That's right and i need you to remember that all throughout this game,  i will conquer what has not been conquered
defeat will not be in my creed. I will believe what others have doubted. I will always endeavor the prestige, honor, and respect of my team. I have trained my mind and my body will follow
WHO AM I ? I'M A CHAMPION !
I will acknowledge the fact that my opponents do not expect me to win, but i will never surrender. Weakness will not be in my heart. I will look to my comrades, to those who have brought me into this world and thoses ho have trained me and i will draw strength from them
WHO AM I ? I'M A CHAMPION !
I will gladly go out into the field of battle, and i will move, groove and do everything that I can do, and I will reach my field of battle by any means at my disposal. And when I get there, I will arrive violently. I will rip the heart from my enemy and leave it bleeding on the ground, beacause he cannot stop me.
WHO AM I ? I'M A CHAMPION !
To my side I have comrades, comrades that have been with me throught thick and thin, throught sacrifice, throught blood, through sweat, through tears. Never will I let them fall. Never will I let them down and I will never leave an enemy behind, beacause our opponent does not know my heart.
WHO AM I ? I'M A CHAMPION !
No one will deny me, no one will defy me, and no one will tell me who and what I am and can be. Belivef wil change my world, it has moved continents and countries, and put man on the moon, and il will carry me through this battle.
WHO AM I ? I'M A CHAMPION !
Defeat, retreat those are not in my words, I don't understant those definitions, I don't understant when things go wrong, I don't understand mistakes, but I do understand this: I understand victory, and I undertsand never surrendering. NO matter how bad things go, my heart and my mind will carry my body when my linbs are too weak
WHO AM I ? I'M A CHAMPION !
Today will be that day, not tomorrow, not next week, but right now, right here, in your house, and in your home
WHO AM I ? I'M A CHAMPION !
History will remember me, and I will not have to worry about him being kind. I will define myself. I will write my own praises. And non one will tell me what I can and cannot be. I will never go home, not without giving everythiong I have got
COZ WHO AM I ? I'M A CHAMPION !
WHO AM I ? I'M A CHAMPION !!!
WHO AM I ? I'M A CHAMPION !!!!!



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Any Given Sunday (1999) - Quotes - IMDb

Any Given Sunday (1999) - Quotes - IMDb: " Believe me. And, we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb"



Tony D'Amato: I don't know what to say, really. Three minutes to the biggest battle of our professional lives. All comes down to today, and either, we heal as a team, or we're gonna crumble. Inch by inch, play by play. Until we're finished. We're in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me. And, we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb outta hell... one inch at a time. Now I can't do it for ya, I'm too old. I look around, I see these young faces and I think, I mean, I've made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I, uh, I've pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who's ever loved me. And lately, I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror. You know, when you get old, in life, things get taken from you. I mean, that's... that's... that's a part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losin' stuff. You find out life's this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game - life or football - the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when add up all those inches, that's gonna make the fucking difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying! I'll tell you this, in any fight it's the guy whose willing to die whose gonna win that inch. And I know, if I'm gonna have any life anymore it's because I'm still willing to fight and die for that inch, because that's what living is, the six inches in front of your face. Now I can't make you do it. You've got to look at the guy next to you, look into his eyes. Now I think ya going to see a guy who will go that inch with you. Your gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team, because he knows when it comes down to it your gonna do the same for him. That's a team, gentlemen, and either, we heal, now, as a team, or we will die as individuals. That's football guys, that's all it is. Now, what are you gonna do?



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What Top Performers Know About Passion

source: 

http://privatelist.findyourdreamjob.com/what-top-performers-know-about-passion/#comment-4746

Top performers know:

1. To find your passion, you need to open up opportunities.You do that by getting extraordinarily good at what you do.

Ask yourself this: If 5 years ago, I’d asked you to predict where you’d be today, would you have been able to?

Of course not. So isn’t it ironic that most of us wait around for our “one” monolithic passion, as if it’s going to stay the same for the rest of your life?

We change over time. Our passions change. So trying to pinpoint our “one” passion makes little sense. Today, I’m passionate about behavioral change and helping you find your Dream Job. A few years ago, that passion took the form of teaching people about money. Who knows what it will be tomorrow?

So what do you do?

You open up as many opportunities as you can so that when you discover a passion, you’re well-positioned to take advantage of it. My friend Elizabeth decided she was interested in letterpress (high-end stationery) and she took a few classes. Then she realized she loved it, kept doing it, got very good, and recently got written up in the Wall Street Journal. She never predicted that — but she explored a bunch of interests and this is one she’s passionate about right now.

The irony of the woo-woo people who write in about finding your passion — think kooky life coaches — is that they’re actually not very skilled at anything. If you’re not good at your day job, what gives you the right to think you deserve to find your life’s passion when you haven’t even put the time in to become good at something?

 2. Internalize the idea that passion is often a by-product of becoming extraordinary.

Many of us operate under the Invisible Script of: First, find my passion. Then, get really good at it.

Counter-intuitively, passion often works the opposite way.

Try this: First, get really good at something — let’s say, email analytics, or assisting an executive, or writing for your blog. Think about it. In college, how many of us took a class where we didn’t really know what we were getting into…and we ended up loving it? Yet if we were to simply read the course catalog, we never would have taken it.

Then, you realize, wow, I actually love this.

You get good at something, then often you find out you’re passionate about it.

3. Use a series of micro-explorations instead of grandiose Pointless Passion Pursuits.

Tell me if this sounds familiar: You sit in your room with a blank sheet of paper, listing off all the things you love and all the things you’re good at. Then, magically, you’re supposed to somehow “see” what you should do with the rest of your life.

How many of us have done this? How many of us were told to do this by experts or career books? Please kill me now.

When I tested this with people, we realized how unrealistic it was. One of my friends, for example, had dropped out of law school and simply had no idea of what was out there. She had all kinds of crazy ideas, like “I could never work in technology because I don’t have any technical skills.” Yet a few years later, she’s earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year as a 20-something top performer. (I’ll share her story with you next week.)

The point is, she didn’t know what she didn’t know.

A better suggestion: Decide to enroll in 2 classes in the next 2 months. Anything you have the faintest interest in, find a class. For example, oh, you always wanted to know how to rock climb? Pay $50 to take a class. Oh,  you want to know how to sew paisley patterns? You can’t find an existing class? Go on Craigslist and offer $75 to someone to teach it to you.

The money isn’t the point. You can barter or attend free community classes. In fact, it’s not even about the classes. The point is that instead of sitting in your room and trying to “think” your way to your passions, the micro-steps of testing your assumptions can radically change your approach to finding your passion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ll5OAqGLTyI

Here are more nuanced thoughts on finding your passion

We all know people who seem to have “figured it out” — they’re doing the stuff they love, they’re getting paid well, and they’re genuinely happy with the impact they’re making. Too often, we distance ourselves from them. The truth is, nobody expects you to know your life’s passion in your 20s or 30s.

But I hold you to a high standard: If you’re not systematically making micro-moves towards it, just get off this site. There’s no room for people who use phrases like “I need to figure it out…” and “Yeah but, I just have too many things I want to do…”

Your passions will change over time, and I’m not telling you to close the doors. But by passively waiting for our passion to fall from the sky, and never committing to doing one thing, we’re paradoxically delaying our passions even more.

The difference between top performers and average performers is that top performers know they cannot think their way to clarity.

Average performers think inside the passion box, getting frustrated, temporarily resolving to “try harder” (as if trying harder to find your passion has ever worked), then often resign themselves to never finding what they love. “It’s ok,” they say, “there are other things more important.” Yet by taking the wrong approach, it never mattered how hard they tried. They never gave themselves a fair shot.

Top performers are different.

They LOVE the idea of uncertainty, of taking micro-steps towards finding a passion for today. They also get extraordinarily good at what they do, which opens up more opportunities. They try a variety of things — taking classes, reading different books, taking others out for coffee — and methodically move their way towards finding their passion.

I cover the step-by-step plan for this in my Dream Job course, which opens on Sunday. I’ll share more details with you soon.

You can do the same, too. Give up the idea of a single passion magically materializing in your head. That’s not how it works, and I’m ok being blunt enough to tell you that. Losers talk about finding their passion for 50 years. Winners go through the dirty process of DISCOVERING it.

TO DO TODAY

Leave a comment with these 3 things:

1. Before today, what words did you use to describe finding your passions? (Example: “I need to find…” or “I’m waiting to figure out…”) and what was your BIGGEST WASTE OF TIME finding your passion?
2. What was your biggest insight about how top performers approach their passions? Be specific please.
3. What will you do, THIS WEEK, to get closer to finding your passion? Be specific.

Looking forward to reading your comments. I read every one!

金琴副教授介绍——中国人民大学信息学院 - 信息学院 - 弘毅考研论坛 -

金琴副教授介绍——中国人民大学信息学院 - 信息学院 - 弘毅考研论坛 -:



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Angle

Once upon a time there was a child ready to be born. The child asked God, "They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow, but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?"

God replied, "Among the many angels, I chose one for you. Your angel will be waiting for you and will take care of you."

The child further inquired, "But tell me, here in heaven I don't have to do anything but sing and smile to be happy."

God said, "Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you everyday. And you will feel your angel's love and be very happy."

Again the child asked, "And how am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me if I don't know the language?"

God said, "Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet words you will ever hear, and with much patience and care, your angel will teach you how to speak."

"And what am I going to do when I want to talk to you?"

God said, "Your angel will place your hands together and will teach you how to pray.

"I've heard that on Earth there are bad men. Who will protect me?"

God said, "Your angel will defend you even if it means risking it's life."

"But I will always be sad because I will not see you anymore."

God said, "Your angel will always talk to you about me and will teach you.

At that moment there was much peace in heaven, but voices from Earth could be heard and the child hurriedly asked, "God, if I am to leave now, please tell me my angel's name."

"Her name is not important. You will simply call her "Mom"."

Lift a mother's spirit, send this to every mother you know.

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P.S.
I just read another story and would like to share with you, which only you another 5 minutes.

http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/24-people-who-applied-worlds-toughest-job-were-quite-surprise-157028

科大讯飞上半年净利8249万 超一半为政府补贴-科大讯飞 财报 财经-速途网

科大讯飞上半年净利8249万 超一半为政府补贴-科大讯飞 财报 财经-速途网:



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语音识别应用新一轮竞技开启：玩法又要变了-语音识别 科大讯飞 苹果 移动互联网-速途网

语音识别应用新一轮竞技开启：玩法又要变了-语音识别 科大讯飞 苹果 移动互联网-速途网:



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The Cambridge Online Survey of World Englishes

The Cambridge Online Survey of World Englishes:



http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html



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来美国5年之后F1学生报税指南

最近报税时整理了一些关于non-resident alien到resident alien身份转换的资料，在这里分享给大家。声明：所有资料均来源于网上并只适用于有收入的F1身份，我不是tax expert也无法为这些资料负责。

1. 何时进行身份转换
After 5 calendar years. 注意这里的五年并不是你在美国实际居住超过5年，而是日历上的五年。比如你2007年Fall来美国读书并开始有TA/RA等收入，那么这5年包括2007到2011年，从2012年起你就要进行substantial presence test。Substantial presence test的详情可以参看IRS的Publication 519。在上面的例子中，如果你2012年的大部分时间仍在美国，那么2013年初报2012年的税的时候就要依照resident alien的身份填Form 1040了（普通美国人填的表格）。

2. Tax treaty
虽然我们学校（NC State U）默认为5个calendar year之后国际学生就不再享受tax treaty（今年初我去签tax treaty时被拒），实际上根据US-China tax treaty的Article 20，每年$5000的收入免税不限时间，只要我们仍是学生身份。这一点在UT Austin的网页上(link)和另外一处(link)都写得很清楚。To claim the tax treaty on a resident return (Form 1040):
Line #7: write in "includes wages exempt by U.S./China tax treaty of $5,000"
Line #21: write in "see attached Form 8833" and enter the total dollar amount of the tax treaty exemption you are claiming as a negative number.
Fill out and attach form 8833 (Treaty-Based Return Position Disclosure).

3. Withholding Allowance
每次发工资的时候都会被withheld不少联邦税和州税，如果一年扣了$2000的税就相当于给了IRS一年的无息贷款。再加上通货膨胀的因素，与其每年报税时退很多税不如减少每次发工资时的扣税额，增加平时自己的可支配收入。理想状况是每年报税时基本上既不退税也不用补税。每次发工资时的扣税额度可以通过withholding allowance来调整——联邦税是Form W-4，州税也有相应的表格（北卡是NC-4）。注意根据IRS（参见link），non-resident alien不能调整默认的withholding allowance。Resident alien可以向employer提出更新W-4(和相应州税表格)的请求（我们学校给foreign tax office发信预约即可），提高withholding allowance。

4. Resident alien和 non-resident alien的区别
以下是resident alien的benefit (根据Columbia U的这个网页整理):
1) You can choose standard deduction or itemized deduction. 学生的收入成分简单，所以itemized deduction基本上只包括几百刀的州税。成为resident alien之后可以claim standard deduction: single $5800, married filing jointly $11600, head of household $8,500. 再加上$3700的exemption和$5000的tax treaty，你的taxable income已经比实际income少很多很多了。
2) Resident alien本来要和普通美国人一样交social security tax和medicare tax，但是对于TA/RA的stipend，这两种税可以exempt，不用交（我们学校的具体规定这里可见）。
3) 可以享受各种tax credit. 美国政府每年都有各种各样的tax credit，比如first-time homebuyer credit，买环保汽车和材料的credit，education credit （返一部分学费和student fee，up to $2000），child credit等等。Tax credit和deduction不同，是实打实的dollar. 由于tax credit每年都有变化，这里就不具体说了。

中文声学杂志排名

声学方面期刊：声学学报>应用声学>声学技术。



声学学报：行业内的顶级中文期刊，EI。比较难中



应用声学： 老牌核心。较容易



声学技术：曾经的EI,后被踢出，现在只是核心，而且有越发堕落之势。容易中



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http://emuch.net/html/201306/6004024.html

佛语：微笑是最美的坚强

佛语：微笑是最美的坚强:



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What do I need to do to launch a tech startup that will be acquired by a top tech company? - Quora

What do I need to do to launch a tech startup that will be acquired by a top tech company? - Quora:



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休斯敦领区2013年度“国家优秀自费留学生奖学金”获奖名单

休斯敦领区2013年度“国家优秀自费留学生奖学金”获奖名单:



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