Sentences with phrase «when listening to speech»

It found 10.7 per cent of adults had significant hearing problems when listening to speech in the presence of background noise — but only 2.1 per cent used a hearing aid.

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It's critical to understand why they're listening to you so you can tune your presentation in a manner that makes them more receptive listeners,» said Jim Confalone, co-founder of ProPoint Graphics when he analyzed Jobs» speeches.

Yeah, about that, Santorum said he felt nauseous when he listens to that part of Kennedy's speech — Santorum is bats ** crazy.

When she took the stage following Trump, she said, «after listening to your speech, I will also look forward to listening to Mike Pence deny that you ever said it.»

There are only two occasions when it's acceptable for a grown man to cry: while listening to Lou Gehrig's farewell speech and while watching Brian's Song, the 1971 tearjerker about Bears halfback Gale Sayers and his doomed teammate Brian Piccolo.

An experiment on slightly younger babies (6.5 to 7.5 months old) suggests that word segmentation is much easier when babies have been listening to infant - directed speech (Thiessen et al 2005).

Studies show that when babies listen to recordings of play songs, it works better than recordings of infant - directed or adult - directed speech to keep 6 to 9 month old infants in a calm or contented state.

According to Paul, around 6 to 7 months is when your baby's babbling becomes more speech like, and if you listen closely, you can hear changes in inflection and tone when your baby's babbling.

3)... that they will repeat a bad word I used when they weren't supposed to be listening, like when Garrett spilled his goldfish crackers on the floor in the doctor's office and he said «oh shit»... conveniently, I might add, just after the doctor had asked me «So how's the speech therapy going?»

I listened to a podcast he did in November 2010 about dealing with the country's deficit, various speeches on the EU, I watched one of his very early Conservative conferences when he first got elected.

He added: «I sat and listened to Theresa's speech and I'll have to be very polite to Theresa when I meet her, but in my opinion she should really address her researchers and advisers very severely for assuring her that a complete nonsense example in her speech was true.»

The two young men had listened to Mario's speech as it began to come together, «and when you work in government... you go through such highs and lows together that you really bond or you wind up very distant from the other person, because you really get to see a person's character,» Andrew Cuomo said.

Maybe it was Ed, for instance, who described how he, Brown and Charlie Whelan were listening to Blair's party conference speech on a car radio when Brown suddenly started heckling («He didn't want that... He opposed that...») And surely it could only have been Whelan, still spinning even in his political grave, who described the Chancellor's fury after being «ambushed» about the Ecclestone donation on the Today programme, for who else but our Charlie would say «Gordon went mental»?

Coalition defence policy was attacked by Jim Murphy in his speech to the Labour conference, when he claimed «this is a government that does not listen».

«When I listened to the governor's speech last week, boy was it ambitious,» said Flanagan, who said he'd rather talk about improving the state's economic picture.

Concerned parties plan to listen to Governor Cuomo carefully when he broaches the subject in his speech.

Language is one of those areas in which scientists observe neural entrainment: When people listen to speech, their brain waves lock up with the volume - based rhythms they hear.

But these researchers looked at what others hear in someone's voice when listening to a lengthy speech, says Phil McAleer, a psychologist at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom and the lead author of the new study.

«I think it's a shame that they haven't taken a more realistic approach to what we know actually happens when people listen to speech,» Scott said.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging has shown that mothers, but not fathers, have increased brain cortical activation in specific language processing areas when listening to infant - directed speech, suggesting that mothers have an intent to communicate and the difference in neural processing is experience - dependent.24 The mothers spoke more to infant girls than boys in early infancy.

In short, it becomes very difficult to care about a grassroots movement when all we see are actors standing around listening to a particularly high - profile thespian delivering his soap box speeches.

And I said, you know, people don't really listen to you when you get up to give a speech.

Last week, when Obama gave his speech to Congress, the thuggish Trumka was part of a small group who sat with Mrs. Obama listening to the President spew out yet another stimulus plan (how'd that last one work out, Mr. President?)

When the message is only about 20 percent of the students — even if you're talking about the 20 percent who really are those most in need of help (although they all deserve help, and have a civil right to it)-- it's hard to win a popular election with that message; and listening to the candidates» impassioned speeches about those students, even if the speeches are nobly motivated, can feel oddly alienating and exclusive to middle class parents who are concerned about their own children's too often declining prospects.

When you listen to his best speeches, you see a person who really could herald a new political era.

Also, this point is also misinformed: «One of the pitfalls of employing Word Runner is sub-vocalization... Because we all learn to speak and listen before we learn to read, almost everyone tends to access the sounds of speech when they read.»

When I was preparing the manuscript for my fourth novel to send to my editor, I decided to adopt a practice I had heard other authors use — listening to the book via a text - to - speech app.

I went straight through the Jim Butcher Harry Dresden stories, reading when at home, and listening with text to speech in the car, then back to reading.

When studying history, it can be invaluable to be able to listen to or watch important speeches embedded in the reading.

Defining characteristics: Both Kindles let you download books wirelessly with 3G connectivity — a feature that remains unique in e-readers, for now — and include text - to - speech for when you just want to listen.

A Brigham Young University study found that when someone's speech pattern is slowed down by 30 %, they appear less fluent, less persuasive, and less truthful to the person who's listening to them.

They also found that when presented with video recordings of infants listening to speech, unfamiliar observers rated the infants more «appealing» when the infants were listening to IDS than when they were listening to ADS.

Emotional speeches are looked at with sincerity by the other characters when nobody would just listen to that.

We became conditioned, over the course of the picture, to listen to the King's stammer so that when it came time for him to give an important anti-Fascist speech, we — the modern audience — held our breath waiting for him to stammer.

64 In fact, listeners are notoriously unable to estimate the number or location of verbal fillers in a spoken message.65 Nicholas Christenfeld found that when study subjects listened to speech both with and without verbal fillers, their estimates of the frequency of uhs and ums were «profoundly skewed.»

If you make any attempt to deliver the perfect speech, Alexa will remember this and when you actually send commands in your natural voice, she will not listen to you as she expects you to be nearly perfect.

«At a time of life when many people are content to enjoy the benefits of retirement, Fred has continued his work; travelling, talking, delivering speeches and above all else listening to the concerns of ordinary Australians, black and white, and fighting to ensure that their voices are heard in the corridors of power.»