Luckily, the PadFone 2's voice recording performance is somewhere in between the two aforementioned devices: some noise is suppressed, and what's left is clean enough for speech interpretation.

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After a quick meeting and tearful farewell with his family, he is escorted into the first class compartment of a Northwest Airlines jumbo jet for a long flight to Detroit in the U.S. Upon landing, he gets a thorough medical examination by doctors at the Henry Ford Hospital, a clean bill of health, and delivers a speech to a sympathetic audience in New York.

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Mr Cameron also focused on the need to clean up politics at Westminster in his spring forum speech, in the wake of recent scandals over MPs ' expenses.

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But virtually every campaign-finance decision involving free speech, like Monday's ruling against the Arizona Clean Elections Act, has come down to a 5-4 vote along ideological lines.

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In his speech, Mr Obama went on to call for federal investment in infrastructure, clean energy and education.

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