Much of the critical technology is provided by Nuance Communications, a leader in speech recognition.
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One of these regions contains a gene called FOXP2 that seems to be important in speech.
Dropping your voice in speech is the vocal equivalent of a period in writing.
As in the novels of his contemporary, Elmore Leonard, Mr Parker's characters come alive in speech.
It seems that dyslexics may have particular difficulty in processing rhythmic patterns in speech.
Among the high-profile grads: Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg and Donald Trump hold degrees in speech, film and economics, respectively.
In speech generally, consonants have higher frequencies than vowels, making conversations difficult to hear for some elderly people.
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The final raps resolve the musical phrase, just as dropping the voice in speech resolves the spoken phrase.
He said he did so when they've expressed "an idea or sentiment" more "clearly in writing than in speech".
The difference between the passive voice and the active voice is subtle in grammar, but profound in impact in speech.
This research helped give rise to a theory that human language has its roots not in speech, but in hand gestures.
Prof Sophie Scott, an expert in speech perception at University College London, said the findings supported and added to current knowledge.
They now have a full portfolio of products rooted in enhancing sound quality and clarity, stemming from their expertise in speech language sciences.
The technology reflects more than one million hours of research and development in speech technologies that has led to more than 600 U.S. patents and patent applications.
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The project draws on expertise in speech recognition and in computer vision - ways of capturing visual data - which have been a strength of Cambridge and the Toshiba lab in particular.
Although Google has plenty of its own expertise in speech technologies (including a cofounder of Nuance, Mike Cohen), Apple suddenly looks like it has a wedge to bust open one of the defining technologies and moneymakers of the Internet.
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"If we weren't in there helping write the rules they would be written without us - the biggest supporter of open markets and free trade - and we wouldn't like the outcome , " argued David Cameron in speech last year.
And you know, he said something in his speech that I thought was - of all the things that he actually said in the speech, that I thought was truly profound was one small line, that these distractions will go on forever in any election.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton followed up that pledge in a speech in February 2010.
So in my speech in 2002 I made an absurd yet financially sound offer.
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She was short on details, but promised more today in a speech in Los Angeles.
That was -- he said that in a speech in 2002 and repeated that throughout this year.
In a speech in Frankfurt on Friday November 19th, Mr Greenspan helpfully drew attention to these risks.
Mr Brown, in a speech in London, said that economic progress and social justice should go hand in hand.
"Stick to the course, " David Cameron will say in his speech in Keighley.
In a speech in December, the Illinois Democrat said he would ask Americans to serve if he becomes president.
In a speech in Beijing, Li Daokui said China "will not appreciate the yuan solely because of external pressure".
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