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21speech — /speech/, n. 1. the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one s thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity. 2. the act of speaking: He expresses… …
22Speech disfluency — Speech disfluencies are any of various breaks, irregularities, or non lexical vocables that occur within the flow of otherwise fluent speech. These include false starts, i.e. words and sentences that are cut off mid utterance, phrases that are… …
23reported verses — plural noun (Fr vers rapportés) verses that combine a number of parallel sentences by collocation of corresponding parts, such as Sidney s ‘Virtue, beauty, and speech did strike, wound, charm, My heart, eyes, ears, with wonder, love, delight’ • • …
24Speech synthesis — Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous people using speech synthesis to communicate Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented… …
25Speech recognition — For the human linguistic concept, see Speech perception. The display of the Speech Recognition screensaver on a PC, in which the character responds to questions, e.g. Where are you? or statements, e.g. Hello. Speech recognition (also known as… …
26Reported — Report Re*port (r? p?rt ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reported}; p. pr. & vb. n. Reporting.] [F. reporter to carry back, carry (cf. rapporter; see {Rapport}), L. reportare to bear or bring back; pref. re re + portare to bear or bring. See {Port}… …
27reported — adj. Reported is used with these nouns: ↑case, ↑earnings, ↑incidence, ↑incident, ↑income, ↑instance, ↑profit, ↑side effect, ↑sighting, ↑speech …
28direct speech — or (US) direct discourse noun Speech reported as spoken, in the very words of the speaker (L ōrātiō rēcta) • • • Main Entry: ↑direct * * * diˌrect ˈspeech [direct speech] noun …
29indirect speech — noun A person s words reported with adjustment of the necessary person and time, as in He said he was leaving • • • Main Entry: ↑indirect * * * ˌindirect ˈspeech [indirect speech] noun u …
30direct speech — di.rect speech n [U] speech reported using the actual words spoken, as in I don t want to go, said Julie. →↑indirect speech, ↑reported speech …
