Sentences with phrase «use of speech»

Verbal bullying is the repeated negative use of speech, sign language, or verbal gestures to intentionally hurt others e.g. using hurtful words, discriminatory or offensive language, swear words.

Research also indicates that traumatic memories may be stored in the right cerebral hemisphere, which would make the use of speech to access memory of trauma more difficult.

Chinese search giant Baidu says customers have tripled their use of its speech interfaces in the past 18 months.

The world has changed into one of gluttony, greed, and unusual uses of speech that mostly use four letter words and grunts.

He builds up tension without the use of speeches.

James Sham's interest in language comes from personal experience (he was born in Hong Kong, but moved a tremendous amount), as well as an acute curiosity about the manipulative uses of speech and how it mediates and conditions ourRead more

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A number of the users whose accounts were limited after this feature was being tested complained that their free - speech rights were being restricted for no reason, just because they used a specific word.

The media mogul became the first African American woman to win the award, and she used her acceptance speech to raise awareness of sexual harassment and assault.

Alex «Sandy» Pentland, director of the Internet Trust Consortium and Toshiba Professor of Media Art and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, gives the keynote speech on how data can be used for public good.

To the listener, the use of the word «so» makes a speech run together and results in a monotone delivery.

In fact, the word is used with such frequency that my Toastmaster's Club has started counting it as part of our evaluation of a speech.

Used in conjunction with the guided meditation app Public Speaking from HiveBrain, this app could really help you identify signs of pre-speech jitters — and eliminate them — before they eliminate your speech.

With the exception of the first two, his words do not appear to cut cruel; indeed, one has a sense these are well - used lines he might employ in his other career: as a successful, in - demand motivational speaker, giving at least 30 speeches every year, here in Canada and around the world.

With very specific training on charismatic speech content and the use of effective verbal and nonverbal strategies, subjects in this study dramatically grew their charismatic presence.

The greatest speakers and speeches allow for, and intentionally create space through, the use of pauses and voice inflection.

Most notably, Sarah Paulson, who won an award for her role in the miniseries The People vs. O.J. Simpson, used her acceptance speech to drum up more support, asking everyone who is able to donate to the ACLU «to protect the rights and liberties of people across this country.»

Take George Orwell's advice: «Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech that you are used to seeing in print.»

In a speech I gave this week to a large room of directors in Montreal, I asked for a show of hands on how many directors use iPads.

On this occasion, Kowalski lost out to a speech therapist and physical therapist, who created a box of laminated cards that describe educational activities parents can use with their young children.

MENLO PARK, Calif., April 24 - Facebook Inc on Tuesday released a rule book for the types of posts it allows on its social network, giving far more detail than ever before on what is permitted on subjects ranging from drug use and sex work to bullying, hate speech and inciting violence.

For the next few weeks, we'll be rolling out the speeches or bits of advice that they are most excited to share with the Class of 2017, using the hashtag #MakeItNewGrads.

Finally, she said coders would be able to use Microsoft's artificial intelligence - powered speech recognition technology to automatically transcribe the meeting into «the language of my choice.»

The Queen of America gave a commencement speech to Georgia's Agnes Scott College and addressed the idea of being full of herself: «I used to be afraid of that, [but now]?

Moving into the gap, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used his Davos speech to announce a TPP - like trade deal with 10 Asia - Pacific countries, in a sign that the rest of the world isn't going to wait for the U.S. to move ahead on trade.

Facebook Inc on Tuesday released a rule book for the types of posts it allows on its social network, giving far more detail than ever before on what is permitted on subjects ranging from drug use and sex work to bullying, hate speech and inciting violence.

Some programs use speech analytics to capture phone conversations, converting them into data that can be used to create more accurate profiles of both customers and agents.

Age, gender, region, and any other details along those lines will impact the kinds of examples you might use in your speech.

To block very hurtful comments that do not use hate speech (something like «why don't you step in front of a truck») could be perceived as limiting free speech.

You can ask these bots just about any homework - related question — math problems, questions about the population of a city, trivia, political curiosities — and they will happily oblige, using a cheerful tone that mimics human speech.

Merkel used her first campaign speech in the industrial city of Dortmund to accuse large sections of the auto industry of having «gambled away unbelievable amounts of trust.»

I used to think about all of the books, articles and speeches that I wanted to create but then eventually talked myself out of it, because I would hit a wall and just tell myself that creativity isn't a strong suit of mine.

«We've had enough of the lies, the sanctimony, the arrogance, the hatred, the pettiness, the fake news,» Loesch said in the minute - long video, calling out «every lying member of the media,» «every Hollywood phony,» «the role model athletes who use their free speech to alter and undermine what our flag represents,» and «politicians who would rather let America burn than lose one ounce of their personal power.»

By using her speech to shift attention to a competitor, Adele attempted to show how the process had humbled her — by forcing her to consider why she shouldn't have won, and to think about the impact those like Beyonce have had on others (instead of trying to magnify her own impact).

However, Zuckerberg also said Facebook hasn't done enough to prevent harmful use of its own tools in regards to issues including fake news, election interference, hate speech and privacy concerns.

Melenchon is certainly not the first politician to employ such technology — in 2014, then - Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan used a huge hologram of himself to attract wider support, while India's Narendra Modi trounced the opposition with a campaign that included holograms of his speeches in villages across the country.

And she was joining a modestly budgeted, long - delayed project whose script, for copyright reasons, hadn't been allowed to use any of King's actual speeches.

The company's service is now used to organize, promote and sell 8 million tickets per month for a wide range of events — from San Francisco - based indie music shows to Pope Francis's speech in Philadelphia.

Do typos in e-mails, or sloppy grammar in speech, bother you so much that you can't even see or hear the meaning of the words being used?

Hariri is part of a joint government that includes Hezbollah, the Iran - backed militant group, and he used his resignation speech to criticize that group and Iran.

The watershed moment for Spencer and his National Policy Institute came just after the 2016 election that elevated Trump to the presidency — in a video from The Atlantic that was viewed by millions of people, Spencer was seen delivering a speech at an NPI conference in Washington, DC where he used Nazi salutes, imagery, and phrases to celebrate Trump's victory as a victory for his cause.

But if the Facebook Like is protected speech because it ostensibly communicates «the user's approval... and support» of the person, status or thing liked, as Traxler wrote, then what of liking things sarcastically or in jest, or — to use an example from another social network — of «hate - favoriting» on Twitter?

It has been relegated to many narrow use cases involving pattern recognition and prediction (some of which are very valuable and useful, such as improving cancer detection, identifying financial risk and fraud, and other high performance computing applications), but it has not developed a general «understanding» of human interactions, human emotions, speech patterns and human responses to information.

Orr once delivered an expletive - filled speech to a group of employees, not even realizing he was using coarse language until marketing executive David Callisch brought it to his attention.

India's current condition reminds Chambers of the United States in the 1990s when President Bill Clinton used several speeches to promote «the information era» and the rise of the Internet.

Stephen Poloz used a speech on September 20 in Quebec City to educate a group of economists about the «hurdle rate» — the minimum return on an investment companies require before they agree to part with their money.

Corti, which is also the name of the company that developed the AI, runs in the background of emergency dispatch calls and uses speech recognition software and machine learning (ML) to pick up background cues, such as breathing patterns, that allow it to determine whether a person is suffering from cardiac arrest.

Poloz used his speech to challenge the old cliché of Canadians as «hewers of wood and drawers of water.»

The Bank of Canada governor used a recent speech to tell firms that they have to adjust their expected return on investment for a low - growth world

«The Turkish government's news media shutdown shows how the State of Emergency law is being used to deny the right to free speech beyond any legitimate aim of upholding public order,» Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

In anticipation of a more detailed presentation of the scheme, Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg used the opportunity of the speech to the National Press Club to present the National Energy Guarantee as the best possible option to ensure reliability of supply, describing it as «technology neutral».