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This exploration of one of the most concentrated immigrant communities in Britain combines a fascinating narrative history, an original theoretical analysis of the evolving relationship between progressive left politics and ethnic minorities, and an incisive critique of political multiculturalism. It recounts and analyses the experiences of many of those who took part in over six decades of political history that range over secular nationalism, trade unionism, black radicalism, mainstream local politics, Islamism and the rise and fall of the Respect Coalition.

Bengali (South Asian people) --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Great Britain --- Bangala (South Asian people) --- Bangali (South Asian people) --- Bangla (South Asian people) --- Bangoli (South Asian people) --- Bengalis --- Ethnology --- England

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This book presents the consolidated acoustic data for all phones in Standard Colloquial Bengali (SCB), commonly known as Bangla, a Bengali language used by 350 million people in India, Bangladesh and the Bengali diaspora. The book analyzes the real speech of selected native speakers of the Bangla dialect to ensure that a proper acoustical database is available for the development of speech technologies. The acoustic data presented here consists of averages and their normal spread, represented by the standard deviations of necessary acoustic parameters including e.g. formant information for multiple native speakers of both sexes. The study employs two important speech technologies, namely (1) text to speech synthesis (TTS) and (2) automatic speech recognition (ASR). The procedures, particularly related to the use of technologies, are described in sufficient detail that researchers can use them in the creation of technical acoustic databases for any other Indian dialect. The book offers a unique resource for scientists and industrial practitioners who are interested in the acoustic analysis and processing of Indian dialects to develop similar dialect databases of their own.

Bengali language --- Speech. --- Phonology. --- Talking --- Banga-Bhasa language --- Bangala language --- Bangla language --- Engineering. --- Pattern recognition. --- Computational linguistics. --- Acoustics. --- Signal, Image and Speech Processing. --- Computational Linguistics. --- Pattern Recognition. --- Automatic language processing --- Language and languages --- Language data processing --- Linguistics --- Natural language processing (Linguistics) --- Applied linguistics --- Cross-language information retrieval --- Mathematical linguistics --- Multilingual computing --- Design perception --- Pattern recognition --- Form perception --- Perception --- Figure-ground perception --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Data processing --- Oral communication --- Phonetics --- Voice --- Indo-Aryan languages, Modern --- Optical pattern recognition. --- Optical data processing --- Pattern perception --- Perceptrons --- Visual discrimination --- Signal processing. --- Image processing. --- Speech processing systems. --- Computational linguistics --- Electronic systems --- Information theory --- Modulation theory --- Speech --- Telecommunication --- Singing voice synthesizers --- Pictorial data processing --- Picture processing --- Processing, Image --- Imaging systems --- Processing, Signal --- Information measurement --- Signal theory (Telecommunication)