Sentences with phrase «rates for speech»

The word error rate for speech recognition systems continues to improve, and Google's speech recognition now enjoys a 4.9 percent error rate.

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As they fade, the need for continued monetary stimulus will also diminish and interest rates will naturally move higher,» Poloz said in notes for a speech to the Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce.

In his speech Monday, Bernanke sought to reassure investors that the Fed's timetable for keeping its short - term rate ultra-low «doesn't mean we expect the economy to be weak through 2015.»

Yellen's speech came amid heightened anticipation that the Fed will hike its key short - term interest rate target next month for the first time in a year.

In February, the Bank of England cut its forecast for British wage growth, which Governor Mark Carney named as a key determinant of future interest rates in a speech at the start of the year.

During O'Connell's speech, he boasted reservations for the Model 3 «have exceeded all of our expectations as far as the rate at which we received reservations,» further describing the Model 3 as «the car for which the company was really set up to build.»

«This positive relationship suggests that, on average, speeches preceding the meeting that carry a more hawkish sentiment are associated with a higher projected level for the policy rate in the medium term.»

The Missouri speech will be the first in what is expected to be a heavy push by the White House to get the Republican Congress to pass a tax package including lower rates for corporations and individuals and send it to Trump's desk to sign by the end of the year.

This speech also draws on the BIS Exchange - traded Derivative Statistics for interest rate derivatives.

There could be several factors that had investors on edge — including news that North Korea had completed a fifth nuclear missile test and the European Central Bank had declined to announce additional measures to help stimulate Europe's sluggish economy — but many strategists pointed to a speech Friday morning by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren, in which he said that «a reasonable case can be made» for tightening interest rates in the U.S..

That's one reason stocks fell sharply in September after a speech by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston president Eric Rosengren, in which he said «a reasonable case can be made» for tightening interest rates — a statement some investors took to mean that rates could rise in September.

The researchers also rated past presidential candidates» charisma, by combing their speeches for charismatic tactics - storytelling, expressing moral conviction, setting high goals.

In her speech, she warned that low rates could lead to the possibility of excessive risk as investors look for alternatives to combat the low - rate environment.

Neither the Federal Reserve's minutes to April's Federal Open Market Committee meeting nor Chair Janet Yellen's speech this week gave any clear indication of a time frame for interest rate liftoff.

In a speech this morning, St. Louis Fed Prez Bullard (has a vote on the FOMC this year) began planting the seeds for the Fed to begin backing away from more rate hikes.

Moreover, a recent speech by Jamie McAndrews outlines a number of respects in which negative interest rates, if attempted on a widespread basis over a long period, could in fact be very disruptive, and in ways not likely to be expansionary for growth.

The researchers also rated past presidential candidates» charisma, by combing their speeches for charismatic tactics — storytelling, expressing moral conviction, setting high goals.

Real rates have been declining for some time, due to slower productivity growth, demographics, and other factors (see Powell's January 7, 2017 speech).

While they often come together, it is possible for your child to have a speech delay but be developing language skills at a «normal» rate and vice-versa.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is renewing a call for legislation that would allow student borrowers to refinance their federal student loans at lower interest rates, urging Obama to push the effort in his speech Tuesday.

In a speech earlier today, Astorino said that «My inclination is for two rates - 4 % for all income under $ 200,000 ($ 300,000 for married couples) and 6 % for all marginal income above $ 200,000 ($ 300,000 for married couples).»

Clinton's standard rate for giving a speech is $ 225,000, with one group, the Jewish United Fund, paying her $ 400,000 for an appearance in 2013.

The speech was an opportunity for the mayor to set his ship back on course after several difficult months dominated by criticism of his pick for schools chancellor, the CityTime scandal and the sluggish response to the post-Christmas blizzard, which sent his approval ratings tumbling.

28 per cent - the new rate of capital gains tax for higher rate tax payers 25 per cent - budget cuts facing most government departments 20 per cent - the new VAT rate from 4 January 2011 14 times George Osborne said the word word cut in his budget speech

Gates announced the switch in a speech before the Council of the Great City Schools, saying the foundation will wind down its work promoting teacher evaluation and ratings and cease to provide new funding for those projects.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for bonuses of $ 20,000 for teachers rated «highly effective» on their performance evaluations during his State of the State speech today.

In his 1998 budget speech, Brown promised to introduce the 10p starting rate when it was right for the economy.

The idea of a 10p or 15p rate - to be combined with changes to the benefit system, more job opportunities and a minimum wage - knocked around for the next year or so, popping up in speeches at the party's conference in 1996.

The speech was met by opposition from elements of the energy sector for its potential impact on employment and electricity rates.

Among other changes on the list, the African gray parrot - famed for its skill in mimicking human speech - was rated endangered, one step worse than its earlier category as vulnerable.

Indeed, in his opinion, the best speech recognition systems are much less efficient than auditory system at best, there is a 92 % success rate compared to over 99.9 % for humans.

In order to accurately compare development timing across species with wildly different gestation rates — nine months compared to three weeks — the team used an algorithm called Dynamic Time Warping, originally developed for speech pattern recognition.

Language: English Genre: Biography / Comedy MPAA rating: R Director: Milos Forman Actors: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton Plot: A comical biography of Larry Flynt's life, the birth of Husler Magazine and his battle for free speech in America.

• Derek Cianfrance calls the R rating for «Blue Valentine» a «victory for free speech.»

«The King's Speech,» the drama about King George VI's attempt to overcome his speech impediment, was rated R for «language,» specifically, several moments where the King is instructed by his speech therapist to swear to relieve the pressure of his stammer.

Rating: Hoopla Factor: A single speech made by the pitiful «heroine» of this piece near the end of the film can't make up for almost three full feature - length films worth of moping and passivity.

But he was one - and - one, as «The King's Speech,» which had been rated R for language (specifically a scene in which Colin Firth spouts of the f - word continuously as part of his character's speech impediment therapy), will not be getting the preferred PG - 13.

«For example,» Wallace told Education World, «without impinging on anybody's free speech, one could simply require Web addresses to include a content code, embedded in the URL If the content rating was «Violence,» «Nudity,» «Adult theme» the URL would change from today's http://www.sleazy.com to http://www.sleazy.com/VNA."

President Barack Obama has often noted in speeches the enthusiasm of Korean parents for their children's education, the high quality of Korean teachers, the number of learning hours that Korean students spend, and the outstanding educational achievements these have produced; for example, top rankings in international academic - achievement tests, and low rates of school dropouts and juvenile delinquency.

In his speech, the president talked about creating a new rating system for colleges that would be unveiled in 2015.

The district classification rate for specific learning disability (SLD) and speech - language impairment (SLI) combined was no more than one percentage point above the state combined rate as reported in the fall of 2010 (approximately 9 %)

The Wisconsin speech was specifically tailored for black voters, and he criticized Milwaukee for low graduation rates and failing schools.

On one team, the math teacher planned to work on ratio and proportion the following week; the science teacher would teach about layers of the Earth; the social studies teacher would introduce gross domestic products, literacy rate, and economics; and the English language arts teacher would review parts of speech and strategies for reading informational text.

The S63 AMG includes Bluetooth for a select list of phones and has a first - rate speech - recognition system.

The Kindle Keyboard only allows for three rates of speech: slow, default and faster.

There are two keyboard commands for adjusting speech rate: control plus and control minus.

«Like VoiceView on our Fire tablets, VoiceView for Kindle supports linear and touch navigation, and the same broad range of speech feedback rates and earcons,» the company's Accessibility Architect Peter Korn wrote in a blog post.

In prepared remarks of a speech he was to deliver today in Quebec City, Stephen Poloz laid out recommendations on how to adapt to low interest rates that he expects will linger for a long time.

His suit as currently constructed will fail, unless he shows that the journalistic speech of the rating agencies is at least partly driven by commercial concerns, and they implicitly profit through their symbiotic relationship with the financial guarantors, who were too highly rated for too long as a result.

However, some market analysts attributed the Loonie's climb to recovering expectations for a BOC rate hike when BOC Deputy Governor Sylvain Leduc refrained from trying to talk down the Loonie or talk about monetary policy during his speech on Tuesday.