speech volume or volume

  • 1speech — /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… …

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  • 2volume unit — n. a unit equal to a decibel for expressing the magnitude of a complex audio signal, as that of speech or music, above a reference level of one milliwatt …

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  • 3Speech 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… …

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  • 4Speech Application Programming Interface — The Speech Application Programming Interface or SAPI is an API developed by Microsoft to allow the use of speech recognition and speech synthesis within Windows applications. To date a number of versions of the API have been released, which have… …

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  • 5Speech repetition — Children copy with their own mouths the words spoken by the mouths of those around them. This enables them to learn the pronunciation of words not already in their vocabulary. Speech repetition is the saying by one individual of the spoken… …

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  • 6Speech error — A speech error is a speech pattern that differs from some standard pattern. Speech errors are common among children, who have yet to refine their speech, and can frequently continue into adulthood. They sometimes lead to embarrassment and… …

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  • 7Speech disorders — Disorders of the ability to produce normal speech. Speech disorders may affect articulation (phonetic or phonological disorders); fluency (stuttering or cluttering); and/or voice (tone, pitch, volume, or speed). Most speech disorders have their… …

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  • 8Volume Nine — Infobox Album Name = Volume Nine Type = Compilation album Artist = Volume magazine Released = March, 1994 Recorded = Genre = Rock, Electronic Length = 77:49 Label = Volume V09CD Producer = Reviews = Last album = Volume Eight (1993) This album =… …

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  • 9volume unit — (vu)    a unit used in telecommunications to describe the volume of a radio or television signal carrying complex information such as speech or music. These waves vary wildly in amplitude in order to represent the message they carry, so it is… …

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  • 10speech compression — compression of the volume of a file containing recorded speech without damaging sound quality …

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