It was after having given that speech, by the next year the speech was off your Web site.

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PC, for example, choosing to have your messages displayed on a small screen or read aloud by speech synthesiser.

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My acclaimed book on public speaking, Working the Room: How to Move People to Action through Audience-Centered Speaking, was published by Harvard in 2003 and reprinted in paperback in 2005 as Give Your Speech, Change the World: How to Move Your Audience to Action.

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Do you run down the aisle and pass out your business card to everyone seated one by one, delivering the fastest 7 second speech around?

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The move to listening to computers with speech synthesisers rather than experiencing full words, letter by letter, underneath your fingertips, means that words are often heard without necessarily knowing how they're spelt.

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