Sentences with phrase «human voice which»

When he addressed the Reverend Wright issue in one of the pivotal moments of his campaign, he did so with an impassioned and vibrantly human voice which succeeded in putting out a potentially lethal fire.

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The idea behind 60dB, which got its name from the frequency of the average human voice, is to make audio of all kinds that are easy to consume anywhere you have a mobile device or a smart - home appliance, the founders said.

Coming up with a number sounds clean and scientific but relying entirely on such a score and disregarding words entirely, means you lose the human voices behind the statistics, which have huge value, Marke insists.

These facts aren't exactly news, but this report, which was produced by human rights experts at Stanford and NYU, gives a voice to the people actually affected by drone strikes in Pakistan.

It is in this context that academic freedom finds meaning — it supports a plurality of voices and traditions (past and present) when debating what vision of human life maximizes flourishing, which is the ongoing project of any society that seeks to perpetuate itself.

As we listen to the witness of the Bible, we may be inclined to think, at first, that this is no more than the voice of the human Israel which points us away from the gods of idolatry as the first step in man's self - emancipation.

Religion in human life is the voice which expresses that image of God in us.

I consider this an ambiguous gift: on the one hand, postmodern tendencies open up spaces for the new perspectives and voices mentioned above; on the other hand, as the social critic Jane Flax notes, a hard - core kind of postmodernity which would postulate the death of history, of the human being and of metaphysics undermines the kind of critical reason that is necessary to counter the «master narrative» constituted by capitalist globalization.

Don't you think that it's more likely what people call the voice of god is simply a complex awareness created by the human brain which has been evolving its ability to recognize patterns for millions of years?

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

The death - of - God myth symbolically articulates, from within the Christian perspective which is my religious framework, my own inability any longer to affirm anything more in the way of grace and love than the human faces and voices and bodies around me, those persons with whom I enter into relationships of various kinds and intensities and patterns of communion and brokenness.

The electronic age with its offering of a wide variety of ways to present the human voice has commanded new attention to oral language.1 Perhaps the ascendancy of science and the domination of the scientific method has created such a restricted view of language that a reaction in favor of more dimensions to language is to be taken simply as clear testimony to a general degeneration of meaningful discourse, a degeneration in which the church figures prominently.

The churches of the world are a global communication system through which the voices of those rendered voiceless because they lack access to the media can be raised to question societal trends that may be antithetical to justice, freedom and human dignity.

Of course it is he or she who does the actual celebrating and the preaching; it is his or hers hands, voice, vocabulary, gestures and the like which are the necessary finite human means through which the thing is being done.

It is within the human spirit that the voice of Christ sounds and the dead rise to a new life which is eternal; there, in quality of living, men pass «out of death into life»; there, as the first Johannine Epistle puts it, «He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life.»

Rock can get religion only if it is already in some sense religious — which it is, due to its commitment to the irreducible mystery of the human voice.

It is the voice of human experience within us, judging and condemning all gods that stand athwart the pathway along which it feels itself to be advancing.

The «thou» which is uttered, and which was never perhaps addressed directly to Sennacherib by a human voice, is said in eternity, and it is of little significance whether a messenger comes to address it to the one accused.

Nate's is a large - muscle, shovel - and - shoulder - work, dark - night - of - the - soul kind of keening that leaves him at daybreak covered with the dust and dirt from which we humans come, quite literally a voice crying in the desert.

And we say something about ourselves too - that a platform which facilitated human voices became too poisonous to use.

4 Fortunately, the human voice box doesn't drop until about 9 months, which allows infants to breathe while nursing.

A new approach to automatic classification of birdsong borrows techniques from human voice recognition software to sort through the sounds of hundreds of species and decides on its own which features make each one unique.

In the human voice box, or larynx, air from the lungs is pushed past the vocal cords, which then start moving back and forth sideways like a flag fluttering in the wind.

Yet 30 % of American voters describe themselves as evangelicals, and the voices of this massive segment deserve to be heard, according to panel speaker James Childress, formerly of President Bill Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory Commission, which informed the president on stem cell research, cloning, and human subjects research.

Using only the classroom sounds, DART could classify the audio into three categories — single voice (traditional lecture with question and answer), multiple voice (student interactive group work), or no voice (student thinking, writing or individual problem solving)-- with over 90 percent accuracy, which matched the ability of the human evaluators to correctly classify the classroom environment.

Moustapha Cissé, an AI researcher at Facebook, and his colleagues figured out that a similar technique — which they have called Houdini — can be used to fool both voice recognition and machine vision systems, by adding such small amounts of digital noise to images and sounds that humans would not notice.

The original conceit — a world in which the dinosaurs never went extinct, with a story following a dinosaur and his pet human boy — remained, but Lithgow told us that the movie was «dismantled and completely reimagined,» adding that he already completed his voice work but was due to record all - new dialogue.

The Smurfs, which promises to Smurf us all over next summer, features Harris, Glee's Jayma Mays and Hank Azaria (as villain Gargamel) as humans, with the likes of Katy Perry, Anton Yelchin, Alan Gumming, BJ Novak, Jonathan Winters and The Daily Show's John Oliver providing just some of the voices for the main characters.

This isn't the romantic type of love of Disney's The Little Mermaid but the unconditional affection of young kids and she takes human form to join him on land, which upsets the balance of nature so carefully kept in check by her wizard father (voice of Liam Neeson) and elemental mother (Cate Blanchett).

Told from a dog's perspective, which is provided a voice by Josh Gad, the film does indeed attempt to show what a dog's purpose is - especially in connection with humans.

Chapter 2 is an analysis of the soundtrack of Sauve qui peut (la vie) made with Anne - Marie Miéville — a film which «looks back to the problematic status of the human body and voice in early sound cinema» (Fox, 34).

Best of all, Jason Clarke as the senator looks the part with a toned - down New England accent which from time to time becomes re-attached to his voice, and he looks human.

This is just the first of many eye - popping sequences in the film, which then picks up 15 years later as a young man named Cale (voiced by Matt Damon) reluctantly joins the alien and human crew of the ship Valkyrie to find the legendary ship Titan — the key to mankind's survival.

Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded about them.

One day, a human boy enters the Moors to steal a jewel, and Maleficent begins a friendship with him, which, as the handy narrator (voice of Janet McTeer) tells us, becomes something more.

This theme is an instrumental and therefore allows to perform a harmonic analysis that does not consider the human voice, which would also be involved in the intentionality of the interpreter.

The measure, which cleared the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on a voice vote Feb. 14, advanced the same week a report commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services recommended that Head Start continue to administer the test — and possibly expand it to cover content areas beyond mathematics and literacy.

In my book The Listening Leader: Creating the Conditions for Equitable School Transformation, I offer a reframing of data that encourages educators to treat human experience, and particularly student voice, as sources of data, which I divide into three levels.

Greenhow's interest in the connective power of the technology stems from her childhood growing up outside of Boston, when her father worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and would take her into the city for demonstrations of technologies such as one in which computers were used to simulate the human voice.

The mission of the American Federation of Teachers is, «to improve the lives of our members and their families; to give voice to their legitimate professional, economic and social aspirations; to strengthen the institutions in which we work; to improve the quality of the services we provide; to bring together all members to assist and support one another, and to promote democracy, human rights and freedom in our union, in our nation and throughout the world.»

Elsewhere in the cabin, the CX - 9 uses Mazda's ominously named HMI (human machine interface), which is a voice - recognition system for navigation and entertainment.

The system also incorporates text - to - voice functionality, which announces road names and turn - by - turn directions with a remarkably human intonation.

Amaryllis in Blueberry explores the complexity of human relationships through the haunting voices of Dick and Seena Slepy and their four daughters in a soulful novel which weaves together the past and the present of a family harmed — and healed — by buried secrets.

For Jennifer Boylan, creaking stairs, fleeting images in the mirror, and the remote whisper of human voices were everyday events in the Pennsylvania house in which she grew up in the 1970s.

Researchers decided to look into this pet - directed speech, which is similar to the tone of voice used for human babies «known to engage infants» attention and promote language learning.»

Editor's Note Janiss Garza runs FitCat Publishing, a small publishing company, and is the «human» behind the blog www.sparklecat.com, which is written in the voice of Summer, a therapy and urban adventure cat.

Originally focused on a career in general and emergency medicine for humans, she had the opportunity to visit many different shelters both in the U.S. and internationally to learn the inner workings of these facilities which led to a strong drive to fulfill a lifelong dream of being a voice for the ones who have none.

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My expectations were colored by genuine masterpieces of human creativity: Kris Takahashi's Interesting NPCs for Skyrim, which adds dozens of fully - voiced characters with their own questlines and personalities; Max - Ischreyt's Better Cities for Oblivion; and kinggath's Sim Settlements for Fallout 4 that allows towns to grow independently without player micromanagement.

The DualShock 4 speaker implementation is yet another Housemarque game that makes some of the best usage of the feature by producing voice - overs in a tone reminiscent of Resogun; indicating when and which type of power - up has been collected; when the strength of a weapon has been maximised; an increase in multiplier has been earned; all humans in an area have been saved; when shields have been deactivated following a collision with an enemy; and more besides.