More natural sounding female voice replaces the old robotic tones
If you use Google Search's voice features in the UK, you may have noticed a fairly significant change today — the robotic male voice of old has been replaced with a new, more natural sounding female voice. The change brings the UK in line with the U.S., which has had realistic sounding voice playback for some time now, and it's a vast improvement on what we had before.
It looks like the change has taken place through Google's backend rather than any sort of app update, so Brits should hear the new voice right away — just tap the microphone icon as usual.
We've got a quick preview of the new British voice of Google search after the break.
Thanks to Chris for the tip, and to everyone who helped confirm it!
It’s that time again — that time when dozens of spurious articles pop up all over the web touting all the dangers of the flu vaccine. Articles on unreliable, alarmist, misinformative sites like Natural News, Mercola, chiropractic blogs and other such sites rail against the “toxins” in the vaccine, or claim the flu vaccine doesn’t work, or that it causes this or that horrible disease, or that the flu itself just really isn’t all that bad. (I’m not going to link to any of them. They get too much attention as it is.)
In less than 24 hours, the first UK iPad Air customers will be walking out of stores across the land with their new hotness, but for those looking for something a little more subsidized, Three might have you covered. Leaving it almost as late as possible, the carrier has announced pricing for the iPad Air and associated data plans. If you're going subsidized, then you're looking at dropping at least £119 up front.
For that, you'll get a 16GB WiFi + Cellular iPad Air with 15GB of data per month for two-years, at a monthly rate of £29. Pay £179 up front for the same iPad Air and you'll drop the monthly cost down to £25. Prices monthly remain the same and with 15GB of data for the 32GB and 64GB models, but prices up front then start from £219 and £289 respectively. And of course, these prices will include 4G LTE when Three launches it sometime in December.
If you're OK with buying your iPad Air outright – either from Apple or from Three – then you're open to a pretty good 10GB 1-month rolling contract for just £15 per month. The iPad Air will go on sale both online and in-stores at Three tomorrow, November 1. The iPad mini with Retina Display will follow later in November, though when is still anybodies guess. We'll update with pricing as and when we learn more. So, anyone buying this way?
Sure it's not healthy, but we admit that we get a bit shaky in the time it takes to complete our final descent. We've read all of SkyMall, and it's just too hard to be away from the warming glow of our Kindle Paperwhite. Thankfully, however, the FAA has finally pulled the trigger on the long-awaited ...
Pain management of hemiplegic shoulder pain post stroke
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The incidence of shoulder pain post stroke was high. Thus, it is clinically significant to study the onset characteristics and pain management. Yi Zhu and colleagues from Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China retrospectively investigated the characteristics of hemiplegic shoulder pain post stroke in patients from Nanjing, China, and discussed risk factors for hemiplegic shoulder pain post stroke and curative effects of different pain management treatment methods. The researchers found that involvement of the posterior limb of internal capsule and early onset of shoulder pain can reduce the efficacy of pain management, while pain-related education before treatment and early pain regression increase the efficacy of pain management. In addition, diagnosis type of shoulder pain can influence the efficacy of pain management. Comprehensive rehabilitation can alleviate shoulder pain, and electroacupuncture based on the underlying physical therapy for shoulder subluxation pain is more efficiently. These results, published in the Neural Regeneration Research (Vol. 8, No. 25, 2013) can provide reference for diagnosis, prevention and treatment of hemiplegic shoulder pain post stroke.
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Article: " Pain management of hemiplegic shoulder pain post stroke in patients from Nanjing, China " by Yi Zhu1, Bin Su2, Ning Li3, Hongzhu Jin4 (1 Teaching and Research Department of Rehabilitation Treatment, Second Clinical Medicine, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210029, Jiangsu Province, China; 2 Wuxi Tongren International Rehabilitation Hospital, Wuxi 214151, Jiangsu Province, China; 3 Department of Rehabilitation, Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha 410010, Hunan Province, China; 4 Second Clinical Medicine, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210000, Jiangsu Province, China)
Zhu Y, Su B, Li N, Jin HZ. Pain management of hemiplegic shoulder pain post stroke in patients from Nanjing, China. Neural Regen Res. 2013;8(25):2389-2398.
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eic@nrren.org
86-138-049-98773
Neural Regeneration Research
http://www.nrronline.org/
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Pain management of hemiplegic shoulder pain post stroke
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Contact: Meng Zhao eic@nrren.org 86-138-049-98773 Neural Regeneration Research
The incidence of shoulder pain post stroke was high. Thus, it is clinically significant to study the onset characteristics and pain management. Yi Zhu and colleagues from Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China retrospectively investigated the characteristics of hemiplegic shoulder pain post stroke in patients from Nanjing, China, and discussed risk factors for hemiplegic shoulder pain post stroke and curative effects of different pain management treatment methods. The researchers found that involvement of the posterior limb of internal capsule and early onset of shoulder pain can reduce the efficacy of pain management, while pain-related education before treatment and early pain regression increase the efficacy of pain management. In addition, diagnosis type of shoulder pain can influence the efficacy of pain management. Comprehensive rehabilitation can alleviate shoulder pain, and electroacupuncture based on the underlying physical therapy for shoulder subluxation pain is more efficiently. These results, published in the Neural Regeneration Research (Vol. 8, No. 25, 2013) can provide reference for diagnosis, prevention and treatment of hemiplegic shoulder pain post stroke.
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Article: " Pain management of hemiplegic shoulder pain post stroke in patients from Nanjing, China " by Yi Zhu1, Bin Su2, Ning Li3, Hongzhu Jin4 (1 Teaching and Research Department of Rehabilitation Treatment, Second Clinical Medicine, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210029, Jiangsu Province, China; 2 Wuxi Tongren International Rehabilitation Hospital, Wuxi 214151, Jiangsu Province, China; 3 Department of Rehabilitation, Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha 410010, Hunan Province, China; 4 Second Clinical Medicine, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210000, Jiangsu Province, China)
Zhu Y, Su B, Li N, Jin HZ. Pain management of hemiplegic shoulder pain post stroke in patients from Nanjing, China. Neural Regen Res. 2013;8(25):2389-2398.
Contact:
Meng Zhao
eic@nrren.org
86-138-049-98773
Neural Regeneration Research
http://www.nrronline.org/
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