do Nascimento Gomes, Rui

The present disclosure relates to a support for securing a LPG bottle during transport or storage (1). In addition to at least one upper face (2) and at least one lower face (3), the support (1) comprises: a concave proximal groove (5) extending transversally from the upper face (2) to a depth configured to accommodate a portion of a neck of an LPG bottle; and a concave distal groove (6) extending transversally from the one upper face (2), longitudinally opposite to the proximal groove (5), to a depth configured to accommodate a portion of a bottom of an LPG bottle; a concave central groove (7) extending transversally from the upper face (2) to a depth configured to accommodate a lateral portion of a body of an LPG bottle; and a through-hole (8) extending transversally between the upper face (2) and the lower face (3) across the central groove (7).

The present disclosure relates to the field of ballistic protection, including materials, structures, and production methods for improving resistance to ballistic threats, impact forces, and penetration. It includes a composite layer (11, 12) for a ballistic armour (10). Such layer may be associated with a ballistic core (20) or with a ballistic core (20) and a hard surface ballistic layer (30), in both cases forming a ballistic armour (10). The composite layer (11, 12) of the present disclosure enables an enhanced and reliable binding to a ballistic core (20) - whichever is the type of ballistic core (20) used - and an enhanced protection to heat.

It is disclosed a visible light communication system that includes a plurality of emitter units (2), such as LEDs, installed within a communication environment, each capable of emitting data-encoded visible light signals to be received by at least a legitimate receiver unit (3). At least a controller unit (1) is configured to coordinate the operation of the emitter units (2), managing power levels and timing of signals to be transmitted by each emitter unit (2), in order to optimize the data transmission and security.

It is disclosed a method for enhancing security in visible light communication system, by employing constellation decomposition to provide physical layer security. By decomposing and transmitting signal constellations across multiple emitter units (2), that is, across multiple light sources, whose relative positions to a legitimate receiver unit (3) are known, the power and phase delay of each signal constellation are adjusted by a controller unit (1) to ensure that only legitimate receivers (3) are able to accurately reconstruct the transmitted data, thus preventing potential eavesdroppers.

It is an object of the present disclosure a method for generating a cybersecurity test recommendation. Central to the realisation of the test recommendation is the use of a knowledge base model (2) and an inference engine (3) to provide personalised cybersecurity test recommendations (c) to a system (1), based on system (a) and test parameters, in a more accurate and efficient way.

It is disclosed a method for operating a Text-to-Speech (TTS) framework (1) with an integrated Intonation-Aware Subsonic Harmonics (ISH) unit (2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4). Said method including a sequence of steps to generate and integrate inaudible subsonic frequencies (f.) with a synthesized speech waveform (g.), and to dynamically adjust them based on modulation parameters (e.) and contextual feedback (c.) derivable from the text inputted to the TTS system (1). This procedure influences prosodic features results in more natural-sounding, fluid, and expressive synthetic speech signal (h.).

It is disclosed a synthetic speech detection framework, based on breath-aware temporal discrepancy detection which is able to analyze the interplay between breathing patterns and phonetic production through five functional blocks, thereby significantly enhancing synthetic speech detection accuracy. These functional blocks include the Breathing-Speech Alignment Module (2), Breath-Speech Interaction Embeddings (3), Temporal Consistency Analyzer (4), Breath-Speech Coherence Module (5), and Deepfake Detection Classifier (6). By leveraging the physiological and phonetic cues that are difficult for synthetic speech generation models to replicate, the framework leverages physiological and phonetic cues, offering a robust solution to distinguish between organic and synthetic speech.

It is disclosed an Intonation-Aware Subsonic Harmonics (ISH) unit (2), adapted to be integrated into a Text-to-Speech (TTS) system (1). Said unit being comprised by an Intonation Learning Module (2.2), a Subsonic Harmonics Module (2.3), and a Contextual Feedback Module (2.3). More precisely, the Intonation Learning Module is able to learn the relationship between subsonic harmonic profiles and intonation patterns across various emotional and contextual scenarios. The Subsonic Harmonics Module generates and integrates inaudible subsonic frequencies with a synthesized speech waveform (g.), dynamically adjusting them based on the Intonation Learning Module's output and contextual feedback (c.) on contextual information derivable from the text inputted to the TTS system, given by the Contextual Feedback Module. This procedure influences prosodic features results in more natural-sounding, fluid, and expressive synthetic speech signal (h.)

It is disclosed a synthetic speech detection framework, based on breath-aware temporal discrepancy detection which is able to analyze the interplay between breathing patterns and phonetic production through five functional blocks, thereby significantly enhancing synthetic speech detection accuracy. These functional blocks include the Breathing-Speech Alignment Module (2), Breath-Speech Interaction Embeddings (3), Temporal Consistency Analyzer (4), Breath-Speech Coherence Module (5), and Deepfake Detection Classifier (6). By leveraging the physiological and phonetic cues that are difficult for synthetic speech generation models to replicate, the framework leverages physiological and phonetic cues, offering a robust solution to distinguish between organic and synthetic speech.

It is disclosed a method for generating an enhanced natural-sounding speech in a Text-to-Speech (TTS) system (1). Said method including a sequence of steps to be executed by an Intonation-Aware Subsonic Harmonics (ISH) unit (2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4), which is integrated with the TTS system (1), in order to generate and integrate inaudible subsonic frequencies (f.) with a synthesized speech waveform (g.), and to dynamically adjust them based on modulation parameters (e.) and contextual feedback (c.) derivable from the text inputted to the TTS system (1). This procedure influences prosodic features results in more natural-sounding, fluid, and expressive synthetic speech signal (h.)