Sentences with phrase «speech capabilities of»

«We use pitch manipulation to be ironic and sarcastic, to change the meaning of a sentence,» said Signorello, emphasizing the limited speech capabilities of the politicians after their pathology.

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In fact, Aarabi thought the initial application of what is now ModiFace's lip and eye tracking capabilities would be speech recognition in noisy environments, he said.
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.
Surely it is less important that a speech be optimistic or pessimistic, than that it be true to the realities of the moment, true to the capabilities of the government, and true to the responsibilities of the citizenry.
Jonathan Baume, general secretary of senior public servants» union the FDA, will argue in a speech in central London that ministers should be included in the capability reviews currently only carried out on civil servants.
During his speech at the summit, he said: «It is precisely the gap between the United States» formal role in the world economy and its real capabilities that was one of the key reasons for the current crisis,» said Medvedev, who came to power last month.
In a speech delivered by Jereh Group's Chairman and Co-founder, Mr. Sun Weijie stated that, «as one of China's largest independent oil and gas companies, Jereh Group will harness its resources and capabilities into numerous other opportunities within the Ghanaian energy sector.
But when she developed hand problems — probably from using a poorly positioned Braille keyboard for 12 hours a day, she says — she switched to the speech - recognition program Dragon NaturallySpeaking to compose e-mails and other documents, using the voice - output capability of a screen reader (Hal, made by U.K. company Dolphin Computer Access Ltd.) to check her work.
Evidence that simple functions can be composed to produce the higher capabilities of nervous systems comes from programs that read, recognize speech, guide robot arms to assemble tight components by feel, classify chemicals by articial smell and taste, reason about abstract matters, and so on.
Pollina and colleague Allison Baretta built a system in which an on - screen avatar equipped with speech - recognition capability asks a series of screening questions.
I will now stake a bigger claim: I believe that the five technologies of speech (and other perceptual capabilities), knowledge access, automation, collaboration and customization are the only new kids on the block.
We demonstrate that the macaque vocal tract could easily produce an adequate range of speech sounds to support spoken language, showing that previous techniques based on postmortem samples drastically underestimated primate vocal capabilities.
The changes in the cabin are particularly striking, as the Durango gets an all - new instrument panel and an updated dash that accommodates a large, intuitive 8.4 - inch touchscreen that uses an upgraded version of the company's Uconnect system to provide smartphone app integration, text - to - speech capability for text messages and a more robust voice control interface.
Apple CarPlay smartphone projection technology is also new for 2016, and Porsche Car Connect supplies a number of useful features including text - to - speech capability, access to Internet radio, access to social media platforms, a car finder feature, remote vehicle status check and access to certain functions, and automatic collision notification service.
Uconnect Access offers text - to - speech and speech - to - text capability, both of which work quite well, plus remote locking and starting and, for an additional fee, WiFi hotspot capability.
I myself appreciate the progress but hope that Amazon will improve the speech synthesis capabilities — a different issue from Audible, of course — to include more and better voices.
Their apps have the capability of doing text to speech, so people who are visually disabled can have the articles read aloud.
As for software, it has audio capability with dozens of choices of text - to - speech voices in many languages, to be downloaded and installed from the company website.
This was the power of Dr. Grind, always making meaningful speeches, always radiating kindness and capability, and then striding out of the room and leaving them alone again.
The Kindle Fire HD is capable of opening DRM files and comes with text - to - speech capabilities, which is perfect to listen to your favorite books instead of reading them.
However, as services such as Createspace and KDP simplified print book and eBook production to make it a possibility for thousands of self published authors — and as text - to - speech automation continues to evolve — I don't think it will be long before we see a breakthrough in audio book self publishing capabilities.
Weaknesses — No SD Card slot, no wireless, no good ebook store to back it up, no reading apps for other platforms, no browser, terrible use of touch capability, no speakers, no text to speech feature, no lending.
It boasts text - to - speech capability, tons of specialized apps and access to the Sony Reader Store, which includes thousands upon thousands of popular titles.
2) Via listener Nick Todd in Southampton and the BBC I learn of a Kindle for PC accessibility plug - in which enables blind and vision impaired readers to use text - to - speech even for books where the capability has been disabled by the publishers.
Other features of the SNE - 60 include support for ePub, PDF and TXT formats, a built - in dictionary, text - to - speech, and MP3 playback capabilities.
The Kindles supported the process of learning to read, especially for new language learners, due to the built ‐ in dictionary to look up words, and the text ‐ to ‐ speech capability for pronunciation (although mechanical ‐ sounding).
This capability came under fire shortly after the Kindle 2 debuted, as the Author's Guild wanted writers to be compensated for the spoken «performance» of books, or otherwise have the text - to - speech function disabled.
Many e-readers also allow you to download and play MP3 music while you're reading, have your book read out loud via a speech - to - text capability, view your photo gallery, or join a social network of like - minded readers to rate, recommend or review e-books you love or hate.
Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G are also lighter, smaller, offer audio capabilities, such as text - to - speech and deep integration for audiobooks, extra-long battery life and hold thousands of books.
The basis of the suit: The library was distributing e-readers (in this case, Barnes and Noble Nooks) that lacked text to speech capability, violating both Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the ADA.
The latest version of Android is 4.1.1, build JRO03H and includes more responsive user interface, expandable, actionable notifications, a smarter keyboard, improved text - to - speech capabilities, new widgets, voice search, an improved search experience and more.
So you have the text - to - speech capabilities that can be used for audio books again giving you the choice of male and females voices.
Though it doesn't have the Kindle's audio capabilities (MP3) or text - to - speech functionality or any sort of peer lending features (with both the Kindle and Nook you can lend out certain titles you own), all the other core elements are here: there's a built - in e-book store that allows you to add titles right from the device via Wi - Fi, and it supports EPUB, PDF files, and e-book lending from your local library (Adobe DRM).
The devices allow the reader to customize the reading experience by adjusting the font size and page layout, or through the use of tools and features like a built - in dictionary, highlighter, digital notes or text - to - speech capabilities.
Arguably the most recognizable of all the parrot species, the Macaws are known for their beautiful colors, bold personalities, and advanced capabilities for mimicking human speech.
Rose and the golem are dependent on one another, but said dependence soon grows into a strong and true friendship — an impressive bit of storytelling when one of the two is a towering mass of rock with no face nor capability for speech.
By attempting to imitate the glitchy and machine - like text - to - speech voices, Yeh creates his own form of Kouji to explore their capabilities and limitations.
«(According to Wikipaedia, this video showed) a tablet style computer with numerous advanced capabilities, including an excellent text - to - speech system with no hint of «computerese», a gesture based interface resembling the multi-touch interface later used on the iPhone and an equally powerful speech understanding system, allowing the user to converse with the system via an animated «butler» as the software agent.
The tools, many of which are used in Microsoft's own products, are designed for developers who don't necessarily have machine learning or artificial intelligence expertise but want to include capabilities like speech, vision and language understanding in their apps.
The speech recognition capability in Siri now has a 5 percent word error rate, thanks to a 40 percent reduction on the part of Apple, Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, said today at Apple's 2015 Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Businesses implementing CRM or other customer - facing technologies with voice capability need speech analytics to «quickly adapt or modify strategies to best meet and exceed customer expectations and provide a frictionless experience,» cautioned Brian Laroche, CallMiner's director of program marketing.
Arguably, Assistant is the better AI compared with Alexa, and it's due to its impressive capability of picking up context and speech recognition, not to mention that it offers more natural conversations.
«We think these new capabilities will help power a next generation of on - device speech processing, visual search, augmented reality, and more.»
While the speech - to - text capabilities of the Alexa platform are impressive, it is important to simplify the customer controls so the game can not mistake the gamer's instructions.
Some of the new features in the first test build includes full - size background image, interactive notifications, enhanced speech - to - text capability, and a new browser.
The company insists that it doesn't record human speech, and that it discloses its software's tracking capabilities in app descriptions and terms of service (ToS) agreements.
Along with computer vision, Pichai gave an update on Google's speech - recognition capabilities, which now has a word error rate of 4.9 percent.
While Amazon, Google and Apple have been improving capabilities of their voice assistants, a new company is now offering a social robot called Jibo, that includes facial and speech recognition technology.
These new features and tweaks include full - size background image for Start screen, more number of quick actions in Action Center, interactive notifications, an enhanced speech - to - text capability and an improved Photos app.
Newly discovered ecobee4 product marketing materials confirm the presence of Alexa... to not only adjust one's temperature via speech recognition, but leverage many if not all of Amazon's voice assistant capabilities.
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