Sailboarding at the Summer Olympics Sailboarding at the Summer Olympics Sailboarding or Windsurfing has been one of the Olympic sailing events at the Summer Olympics since 1984 for men and 1992 for women. All sailors use the same One Design boards, daggerboards, fins and sails. The equipment is chosen to allow racing in a wide range of sailing conditions, as during the Olympic Games events must take place as scheduled whether or not there is enough wind for planing. Multiple medal winners include Alessandra Sensini and Barbara Kendall with three medals; and Bruce Kendall (brother of Barbara Kendall) and Dorian van Rijsselberghe with two medals.
Voice activity detection Voice activity detection Voice activity detection (VAD), also known as speech activity detection or speech detection, is a technique used in speech processing in which the presence or absence of human speech is detected. The main uses of VAD are in speech coding and speech recognition. It can facilitate speech processing, and can also be used to deactivate some processes during non-speech section of an audio session: it can avoid unnecessary coding/transmission of silence packets in Voice over Internet Protocol applications, saving on computation and on network bandwidth. VAD is an important enabling technology for a variety of speech-based applications.