The words I heard emerging from my mouth sounded like imitations of human speech.
They found that vocal bursts averaged about three per second, with pauses reminiscent of human speech.
He manages throughout to maintain a fine balance between the formal, and the direct freshness of human speech.
Engineers working in the field expect to be creating computer-generated speech that is indistinguishable from human speech within a year.
Researchers in the US have been shocked to discover a beluga whale whose vocalisations were remarkably close to human speech.
While dolphins have been taught to mimic the pattern and durations of sounds in human speech, no animal has spontaneously tried such mimicry.
Thirty to 40 percent of human speech informs others about ourselves.
In addition, the web-based service is able to do complicated computation on behalf of a robot - for example if it needs to work out how to navigate a room, fold an item of clothing or understand human speech.
But audio experts say that the basic principles the CIA uses are likely the same ones that have driven the field of voice recognition since the 1940s: use of a spectrogram, a visual representation of the frequencies of human speech.
Similarly, huge amounts of human digitized speech were required to achieve the speech singularity (aka Siri).
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The whales are known as "canaries of the sea" for their high-pitched chirps, but while a number of anecdotal reports have described whales making human-like speech, none had ever been recorded.
Lewis worked for 32 years as a columnist for the Times, taking up such causes as free speech, human rights and constitutional law.
There are many technological and economic reasons for this unprecedented explosion of speech and human interaction, but the primary legal reason lies with Sec. 230.
Felix Perera, Minister of Social Services, and Ms Pilar Alvarez-Laso, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, will deliver a speech as Guests of Honour.
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people.
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Speech recognition is translating the human voice into text, which is key to things like searching by voice.
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This research helped give rise to a theory that human language has its roots not in speech, but in hand gestures.
Last year, President Obama delivered a speech on the fight to end human trafficking at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting in New York.
It also turns out that ordinary speech patterns may be excellent predictors of human behavior in real life.
The White House historically extends invitations to ordinary people to join the first lady in the public gallery of the House chamber during the speech, believing they can help put a human face on an issue or proposal the president will discuss during his annual address.
By 2020, technology will have made such rapid progress, that speech recognition by a computer will exceed that of a human.
Mr Syvret is now taking his case to the European Court of Human Rights, claiming that he was denied the right of free speech and a right of reply.
To launch the tablet, Kapil Sibal, the minister of human resources and development, communications and information, gave a lofty speech in front of a crowd of students in New Delhi.
In a speech at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics on November 6, Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health and the man who headed the Human Genome Project, implored his colleagues in genetics to work to develop new treatments for rare diseases.
In his speech, Bush acknowledged that climate change is real and that human activity is a factor.
Labour AM Ann Jones paid tribute to Ms Sandbach's speech, saying it was vital for AMs to hear the human stories behind the statistics.
Earlier this week, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) released a report detailing cases of violence, hate speech and ethnic intimidation.
The build-it-yourself (and eerily human-proportioned) construction can react to pre-programmed actions, text-to-speech conversion or live control, ranging from basics like the eyes and jaw to the eyelids, eyebrows, lips and neck of an Advanced Fritz.
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