Unfortunately, the lack of a comprehensive database of different types of speech patterns stands in the way of wider implementation.

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Typically, people with Asperger's have higher-than-average intelligence and struggle less than people with other types of autism with their speech.

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Many European Union states (and even some non-EU countries in Europe) have various types of anti-hate speech legal mechanisms, in part to head off terrorism and far-right violence.

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An optical-character-recognition machine for the blind that's capable of reading most types of printed text aloud, the CCD flatbed scanner, speech-recognition software, the first synthesizer that created sounds virtually indistinguishable from those produced by their acoustic counterparts, and a whole bunch of other nifty things we can barely comprehend came from Ray's brain.

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In a stump speech for all things digital, Gates told an audience of hundreds of BlackBerry-fiddling advertising industry types Tuesday that within just five years, Internet-based television will do to broadcast what the Internet has already done to print media.

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