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A method of providing a notification of widget availability may include receiving an indication of a visited location associated with a user, determining whether the visited location is associated with a widget on a device associated with the user, and providing a notification to the user of an availability of the widget for installation on the device based on the determining.

An apparatus for providing adaptive language model scaling includes an adaptive scaling element and an interface element. The adaptive scaling element is configured to receive input speech comprising a sequence of spoken words and to determine a plurality of candidate sequences of text words in which each of the candidate sequences has a corresponding sentence score representing a probability that a candidate sequence matches the sequence of spoken words. Each corresponding sentence score is calculated using an adaptive scaling factor. The interface element is configured to receive a user input selecting one of the candidate sequences. The adaptive scaling element is further configured to estimate an objective function based on the user input and to modify the adaptive scaling factor based on the estimated objective function.

An apparatus for providing a beat and tatum tracker includes an accent filter bank, a periodicity estimator, a period estimator and a phase estimator. The accent filter bank is configured to downsample an input audio signal. The periodicity estimator is configured to determine a periodicity based on the downsampled signal. The period estimator is configured to determine a period based on the periodicity. The phase estimator is configured to estimate a phase based on the period for determining beat and tatum times of the input audio signal.

An apparatus for providing adaptive language model scaling includes an adaptive scaling element and an interface element. The adaptive scaling element is configured to receive input speech comprising a sequence of spoken words and to determine a plurality of candidate sequences of text words in which each of the candidate sequences has a corresponding sentence score representing a probability that a candidate sequence matches the sequence of spoken words. Each corresponding sentence score is calculated using an adaptive scaling factor. The interface element is configured to receive a user input selecting one of the candidate sequences. The adaptive scaling element is further configured to estimate an objective function based on the user input and to modify the adaptive scaling factor based on the estimated objective function.

A portable working machine comprising a tool unit (1) with a disc guard and a circular tool (3), and a machine unit (2) with a filter system (10), an internal combustion engine (11) with an engine cylinder (13) with bore (12) having a centre line (30), a crankshaft (14) and a crankcase (15), a fuel tank (17), a muffler (18) with an entrance port (46) provided in the rear side of the muffler and facing an exhaust port (47) of the cylinder, handles (19, 20) controls (21, 22) and supports (23, 24) on the underside of the machine unit for allowing upright positioning of the machine on a flat ground. The cylinder bore (12) is inclined forwards in a direction towards the tool unit, such that the centre line (30) of the cylinder bore forms a tilt angle larger than zero, in the direction, to a perpendicular to any or both of the following lines: (a) a base line (33) which is a line coinciding with a horizontal surface on which the machine is resting in an upright position, when the supports on the underside of the machine unit contact the surface, and (b) a tangential line (33′) extending from a peripheral point of the tool, on the lower part of the tool when the machine has an upright position, to the bottom side of a rear support of the machine unit.

An apparatus for providing a word input mechanism may include a processing element. The processing element may be configured to determine a plurality of candidate words available for selection based on context information, provide for a display of the plurality of candidate words in a candidate word field, receive a selection of at least one of the candidate words, and include a selected candidate word in a text entry.

An apparatus for providing improved voice conversion includes a sub-feature generator and a transformation element. The sub-feature generator may be configured to define sub-feature units with respect to a feature of source speech. The transformation element may be configured to perform voice conversion of the source speech to target speech based on the conversion of the sub-feature units to corresponding target speech sub-feature units using a conversion model trained with respect to converting training source speech sub-feature units to training target speech sub-feature units.

An apparatus for providing a consistent virtual entity includes a historical event element and a communication element. The historical event element is configured to store historical information based on previously played games related to a virtual entity. The communication element is in communication with the historical element and configured to receive an indication of a particular game related event occurring in a particular game application. The communication element is configured to provide a message including template content and the historical information to a player of the particular game application in response to receipt of the indication.

An apparatus for providing efficient evaluation of feature transformation includes a training module and a transformation module. The training module is configured to train a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) using training source data and training target data. The transformation module is in communication with the training module. The transformation module is configured to produce a conversion function in response to the training of the GMM. The training module is further configured to determine a quality of the conversion function prior to use of the conversion function by calculating a trace measurement of the GMM.

An apparatus for providing data clustering and mode selection includes a training element and a transformation element. The training element is configured to receive a first training data set, a second training data set and auxiliary data extracted from the same material as the first training data set. The training element is also configured to train a classifier to group the first training data set into M clusters based on the auxiliary data and the first training data set and train M processing schemes corresponding to the M clusters for transforming the first training data set into the second training data set. The transformation element is in communication with the training element and is configured to cluster the second training data set into M clusters based on features associated with the second training data set.

The methods of this invention solve the problem of low recovery of debt by, prior to recovery of the debt, increasing the debtor's inclination and ability to repay the debt, and only after increasing the debtor's willingness and ability to repay the debt, collecting a greater amount of the debt.