Sentences with phrase «abilities for speech»

Well, you can have vague unintelligible sound effects play, but the really useful thing that we've been waiting to come back since the days of Microsoft Voice Command on Windows Mobile 2003 is the ability for the speech interface to actually tell us the stuff we need to know out loud in a language that we can understand.

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«Credit to the team at Amazon for creating a lot of excitement in this space,» Pichai said, while claiming that Google Home will be considerably superior in its «far - field voice recognition» (ability to decipher speech against background noise at different distances), its integrations with other smart - home systems like Google - owned Nest, and its aptitude to understand and manage things like restaurant reservations, travel itineraries, and contact lists.

In a speech he made a day after Jobs's death, former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki (who claims to have survived working for Jobs twice), also spoke about Jobs's remarkable ability to evoke greatness from others.

The speech lists five key fundamentals that should stand Australia in good stead: a strong institutional framework (including the rule of law, respect for property rights, a well - functioning public administration, and a well - established regulatory system); our people, who are diverse, well educated, have a «can do» mentality and a demonstrated capability for adjusting to change; a large endowment of mineral resources; large tracts of agricultural land and an ability to produce high - quality clean food; and an established services industry with the potential for considerable expansion as average incomes in Asia rise.

When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

Call this intellect and will from another angle, but the ability to think for oneself and to create speech without external stimuli are essential differences between humanity and the material creation.

Second, I predict that the acceptance speeches will be full of the kind of deep political and philosophical analysis which has become de rigueur for those with credentials: the ability to memorize a few lines and pretend to be someone else in front of a camera.

With recent reports stating that the players want interim manager Guus Hiddink to stay on as the permanent Chelsea manager, replacing such a popular figure in the locker room will prove a hard task for any manager — especially if the language barrier impairs Conte's ability to make the fire - and - brimstone motivational speeches that earned him so much respect in Italy.

Her passion for educating, inspiring and empowering parents of children with all abilities led her to start her blog playing with words 365 where she shares information about speech & language development & intervention strategies, parenting, photography and a little about her family life too.

If you're worried about a particular issue — your child's speech or ability to grab objects, for instance — and the doctor doesn't mention anything, bring it up and ask for a referral to a specialist.

i thought it was one of his best speeches yet - packed with references to everyone from Kennedy (ask not what your country can do for you), to King (we will get to the promised land), via Lincoln, Reagon and even Nixon, as Sunder points out... he demonstrates a powerful generational consciousness, the ability to join the dots between his country's social and political history, and to see his own forthcoming presidency's place in that context.

Should other nations recognize that A governs m (for example, through public speech, trade agreements related to m, etc.) A's ability to claim they rightfully govern m improves.

Cuomo said the location he'd chosen for the speech, at 1 World Trade Center, symbolized the state's ability to rise to meet its challenges.

Restricting speech or spending for a corporation does not in any way restrict an individual's ability to exercise their free speech, or to spend, as individual citizens.

In his biggest speech on Brexit since the referendum, the Labour leader made clear he is ready to sacrifice the UK's ability to strike new trade deals in return for staying in an EU customs union.

Lord Carlile delivered a sensible speech last night which again made the case for control orders, as well as an enhanced ability to deport foreign terror suspects.

In his final speech before the U.N. General Assembly, President Obama conceded that the United States and other world powers have limited ability to solve the most profound challenges facing the world, while calling for a «course correction» for globalization to ensure that nations don't retreat into a more sharply divided world.

Jonathan Isaby's pick: «The speech of the year for me was given by a man whose gift for rhetoric, comic timing and ability to command the attention of the House of Commons are all legendary.

It also has some understanding of speech and comes with chatbot software based on Rosette, which in 2011 won the Loebner prize, awarded for a computer's ability to hold simple conversations.

Later, Butterworth found another patient with the opposite pattern of disability: neurodegeneration had robbed him of speech, language and much of his knowledge, save for the ability to do intricate calculations.

Humans were thought to be the only primate with vocal learning — the ability to hear a sound and repeat it, considered essential for speech.

Thyroid cancer patients could lose speech ability or the ability to regulate the body's calcium levels in ways that are important for muscle and nerve function.

In a paper published recently in the journal Family Relations, lead researcher James McKenna, director of the Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab and Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, and his colleagues suggest that the origin of both colic and SIDS may be related to the gradual emergence of an infant's ability to voluntarily control the release of air through the vocal track, learned skills that are required for the development of speech.

A new study may have been for (and about) the birds, but it also hints at how humans may have developed the ability to speak, potentially paving the way to one day to identifying the causes of speech deficiencies.

Further, the configuration of the human larynx is novel among primates: The voicebox has evolved downward, and half the tongue is lodged in the throat, giving us an exquisite ability to articulate — particularly the vowels so important for speech.

But, as she showed during an electrifying speech accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes for outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment, she has an unparalleled ability to inspire.

It's full of fun facts like that, but it saves its most fascinating revelations for the intricacies of canine interactions, including their complex gift - giving behaviours, advanced speech, abstract philosophical concepts, and eerie ability to go for at least fifteen days at a time without food or water.

Kimmel, who promised the evening's nominee a free Jet Ski (presented a la «Price is Right» by Helen Mirren) for the shortest acceptance speech, also dutifully saluted the Time's Up moment, pointing out the Oscar statuette's ability to keep its hands to itself, as well as its notable lack of a penis.

A few years back, I heard President Obama say in a speech, «The truest test of a person's life is what we do for one another... these extraordinary men and women, these agents of change, remind us that excellence is not beyond our abilities, that hope lies around the corner, and that justice can still be won in the forgotten corners of this world.»

Recognizing key features of a persuasive speech - Higher Level Reading Skills Adaptation of opening fight scene in Romeo and Juliet Character Analysis activity sheets for Tybalt and Benvolio (Higher order reading skills - L. 5) Script writing frame for lower ability

The illustrations help get the dialogue and action across to disaffected students Resources offer ready - made lesson plans and activities Set sections available in three text versions allow inclusive teaching for a class of mixed abilities Students can start with the Quick Text and work up to the Original Text version Have students colour the pages in, or colour - code the speech bubbles Have students write in the dialogue over the No - Text version Resources are electronic, so can display them on a whiteboard for class study Fun for children to study

You know those pesky constitutionally protected rights like free speech or the ability to petition your government for the redress of grievances.

The absolutely critical role played by phonemic awareness (the ability to segment the speech stream of a spoken word, e.g., / cat / into component phonemes / cuh + ah + tuh / and / or to blend separately heard sounds, e.g., / cuh + ah + tuh / into a normally spoken word / cat /) in the development of the ability to decode and to read for meaning has been well documented in the past decade and a half.

(b) In making such grants or contracts, funds made available for any year will be utilized to provide a balanced program of assistance to meet the medical, vocational, and other personnel training needs of both public and private REHABILITATION programs and institutions, to include projects in REHABILITATION medicine, REHABILITATION nursing, REHABILITATION counseling, REHABILITATION social work, REHABILITATION psychology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology and audiology, workshop and facility administration, prosthetics and orthotics, specialized personnel in providing services to blind and deaf individuals, recreation for ill and handicapped individuals, and other fields contributing to the REHABILITATION of handicapped individuals, including homebound and institutionalized individuals and handicapped individuals with limited English - speaking ability.

Trail's AVN system has all that plus navigation and SMS text - to - speech ability, and you can opt for it on SR5.

Inside, the new A-Class sedan adopts the same high - quality dashboard and advanced infotainment functions as the new A-Class hatchback, including Mercedes - Benz's new MBUX operating system that introduces touchscreen control, conversational speech recognition and the ability for two users to connect simultaneously.

What sets the Kindle apart is the added features: audio support for text - to - speech, MP3s, and audiobooks; support for games and apps, such as card games, puzzles, and crosswords, calendars and notepad apps; add notes to ebooks and export them in TXT format; and the ability to switch screen orientation.

The ability to adjust fonts and type size and to employ text - to - speech technology on reading platforms promised much greater access for visually challenged readers — many more than for people who are legally blind.

If you want to read ebooks, there are some extra features not available on Kindle ereaders, like the ability to use multicolored highlights, wordrunner, text - to - speech (with multiple voices to choose from), immersion reading where it highlights text while playing the audiobook, and the HD 10 adds two column mode for landscape view, which is quite nice.

But the Authors Guild has expressed concern that the feature will hurt sales of audio books, so Amazon plans to give publishers and authors the ability to silence the text - to - speech function for their books.

The Author's Guild, who are in charge of supporting and representing the rights of its 8,000 members are generally not looking favourably on the online publishing world, it has had it's recent gripes with the new Amazon Kindle book reader for its text to speech functionality (ie the ability to read the book to you via audio.

I decided to go with the Sony instead of the Kindle for the open formats support, and the ability to borrow books from my library, but it was a close call, and the text - to - speech and dictionary were two decided factors.

Numerous other changes were introduced too, such as a new typeface throughout the UI - Roboto, the ability to launch apps from the lockscreen, support for real - time speech to text dictation, Face Unlock, Google Chrome web browser came preinstlalled with tabs and syncing of bookmarks, camera with time - lapse and panorama and a built - in photo editor, data usage analysis, and new calendar and mail apps.

Under the settlement agreement, the library will not acquire any additional e-readers for patron use that exclude persons who are blind or others with disabilities who need accessible features such as text - to - speech functions or the ability to access menus through audio or tactile options.

In it, Amy delivers a poignant speech about «the cool girl,» and Flynn has said that feminism, for her, includes «the ability to have women who are bad characters.»

Their comical characters and excellent speech abilities have kept them in the ranks of the most popular pet bird species for decades.

Children often experience separation anxiety and while more treatment options exist for children because of their advanced cognitive ability and speech capacity, the underlying disorder is virtually identical to that in dogs.

We should suspend judgment and inherent bias and make sure that we do not allow people's appearance, ethnicity, manner or language of speech, or attire influence our judgment about their ability or desire to care for their pets.

Even within species known for speech, the ability to talk varies between individuals.

First it was summer, then it was September, and now Sony CEO Howard Stringer has - at a keynote speech at IFA - confirmed that the PS3 will be getting the ability to play 3D Blu - ray disks by the end of October.Bigging up 3D for the majority of the company's... Read more