Translating oral histories: a podcast by Wong, Melissa Xin Yu

“…The project identifies the main challenge as maintaining the casual and informal tone of conversation in a textual form. This is done with a number of approaches: retaining the shorter clauses and sentences of the Chinese source text; translating oral features and other pieces of non-verbal communication; keeping and inserting discourse participles from both Chinese and Singlish to modulate the tone and build consensus; and editorial insertions. …”
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Phonetic development of Tibetan by LaPolla, Randy J.

“…This exercise explores the historical relationship between tone, aspiration, prefixes and stem initial consonants in Tibetan. …”
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Sri Lanka's civil war : end of an era? by Nadeeka Withana

“…The manner in which the government steers through these challenges would set the tone for the country's future.…”
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Performance analysis of linear and non-linear diversity combining techniques of FFH/BFSK communication systems by Tan, Nyit San.

“…The closed-form bit-error rate (BER) expressions for a uncoded fast frequency-hopped binary frequency-shift keying (FFH/BFSK) system using various diversity combining techniques in the presence of multi-tone jamming (MTJ) and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) conditions over a non-fading channel are obtained.…”
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Sino-Tibetan *tongue and *lick by Bauer, Robert S.

“…In Chart N, Tibeto-Burman Languages - Chin (Zo) Group, Tone Pattern I (Luce 1985:70-71), the following forms for 'tongue' (item *19) appears.…”
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Poisson vector graphics (PVG) by Hou, Fei, Sun, Qian, Fang, Zheng, Liu, Yong-Jin, Hu, Shi-Min, Qin, Hong, Hao, Aimin, He, Ying

“…Within the PVG framework, the users specify color as the Dirichlet boundary condition of diffusion curves and control tone by offsetting the Laplacian of colors, where both controls are simply done by mouse click and slider dragging. …”
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Topics in Marma (မာရမာ) by Marma, Rani Ukhengching (ဦး ချမ်း စိန် မာရမာ)

“…At the end of this paper, through instrumental analysis, we proposed three tones in Marma (i.High and creaky, ii. low, and iii. falling). …”
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Subtitling strategies of Singlish particles and their effects on foreign audiences' comprehension: Ah Boys to Men series as a case study by Chia, Li Fang

“…The survey found that most of the participants were able to accurately interpret their implied meanings and were reported to have relied mostly on the speaker’s tone, body language and facial expressions as cues. …”
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An acoustic remote sensing method for high-precision propeller rotation and speed estimation of unmanned underwater vehicles by Railey, Kristen, DiBiaso, Dino, Schmidt, Henrik

“…First, causes of high frequency tones were determined through direct measurements of two micro-UUVs and an isolated thruster at a range of speeds. …”
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The role of expectation: attention in cognitive performance lab study by Wong, Cheryl Qi Yin

“…Distractors were defined by random 80 dB tones lasting 3 seconds. Expected distractors were defined by a click sound occurring 1.5 seconds before each distractor tone. …”
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Developing optogenetics for use in vascular research by Rorsman, N

“…Fine control of artery tone was attained by varying the intensity of the blue light stimulus. …”

A decade after the first full human genome sequencing : when will we understand our own genome? by Eisenhaber, Frank

“…The contrast between the pomp of celebrating the first full human genome sequencing in 2000 and the cautious tone of recollections a decade thereafter could hardly be greater. …”
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Is sarcasm detection capability beneficial for sentiment analysis? by Koh, Brian Jin Kiong

“…Sentiment Analysis aims to find out the emotional tone behind text. However, sarcasm, which often tells a meaning opposite to the meaning of the literal words, makes this task harder. …”
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A genre, scoring and authorship analysis of AI-generated and human-written refusal emails by Wilson, W, Rose, H

“…Key concerns for assessors were tone, relationship, language choice, content and structure. …”

探 = In search of harmony by Ng, Woon Lam

“…The colors were either earthy toned (browns) or low in chroma, and materials with greater color intensity were rare and costly to work with. …”
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Parallel transmission technologies for imaging the brain and body with 7 tesla MRI by Kent, JL

“…Both parallel transmit scattering and pilot tone showed good sensitivity to head motion and each method was able to accurately predict rigid body head motion in all six degrees of freedom using a linear regression model.…”

Bit-error rate simulation for frequency-hopped multiple-access systems over fading channels by Le, Thi Ngoc Anh.

“…Due to the effects of multiple-access interference, partial-band or multi-tone jamming and fading channels, the performance of frequency-hopped multiple-access could be degraded. …”
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中国东北人移民新加坡后的语言变化及其社会意义 = Study of the language changes of Chinese Northeastern immigrants as a socio-linguistic Indicator in Singapore by 李思 Li, Si

“…With the help of the PRAAT phonetic software, the sound on apical consonant, R consonant and final vowel are analysed by their formant shown in PRAAT, tones and first tone syllable are analysed by intensity and pitch respectively. …”
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Investigating the Structural Evolution of Ad Design: Computational Analysis of Information Content and Interactivity in Ads by Wang, Nina

“…In this research, I dissect this broader shift into changes in ad content and ad tone, specifically, changes in information content and interactivity levels. …”
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A model of intonational phonology of Singapore Malay by Diyana Hamzah

“…The study found evidence for two levels of prosodic phrasing (i.e., accentual phrase and intonational phrase), with edge tone(s) associated to their periphery. Focus is marked by a bitonal pitch accent, which triggers a lowering of post-focus peaks.…”
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