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| | Delayed Speech or Language Development |
 | | Speech may be the only problem or may be accompanied by other oral-motor problems such as feeding difficulties. | | | Speech is the verbal expression of language and includes articulation, which is the way words are formed. | | | The speech therapist will also show you how you can work with your child at home to improve his or her speech and language skills. |
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http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/growth/communication/not_talk.html
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| | Freedom of Speech Encyclopedia Article, Description, History and Biography @ MatronOfTheArts.com |
| | Freedom of speech is often regarded as an integral concept in modern liberal democracies, where it is understood to outlaw censorship. | | | It is important to understand the various theoretical rationales for freedom of speech if we are to form views about the concept's true nature and its rational limits. | | | Still another explanation is that freedom of speech is integral to tolerance, which some people feel should be a basic value in society. |
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http://www.matronofthearts.com/encyclopedia/Freedom_of_speech
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| | Figure of speech - encyclopedia article about Figure of speech. |
| | These emotional responses are central to the meaning of the work or speech, and should also get the listener (or the reader's) attention. | | | A rhetorical device is a technique, sometimes called a resource of language, used by an author or speaker to induce an emotional response. | | | Under theories that do not, figure of speech is not an entirely coherent concept. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/figure+of+speech
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| | Speech Acts |
| | Even when this sentence is used literally and directly, say to describe a certain area of a barnyard, the content of its utterance is not fully determined by its linguistic meaning--in particular, the meaning of the word 'this' does not determine which area is being referred to. | | | Accordingly, the distinction between constative and performative utterances is, in Austin's general theory of speech acts, superseded by that between saying something and what one does in saying it. | | | For philosophy of language in particular, the theory of speech acts underscores the importance of the distinction between language use and linguistic meaning (see PRAGMATICS and SEMANTICS). |
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http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~kbach/spchacts.html
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| | Speech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | At a deeper level, one could even consider subconscious processes, including dreams where aspects of oneself communicate with each other (see Sigmund Freud), as part of intrapersonal communication, even though most human beings do not seem to have direct access to such communication. | | | Articulatory problems, such as stuttering, lisping, cleft palate, ataxia, or nerve damage leading to problems in articulation. | | | There are several factors that can affect the quality of speech as such. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech
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| | What You'll Wish You'd Known |
| | So far we've cut the Standard Graduation Speech down from "don't give up on your dreams" to "what someone else can do, you can do." But it needs to be cut still further. | | | And yet every May, speakers all over the country fire up the Standard Graduation Speech, the theme of which is: don't give up on your dreams. | | | But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right. |
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http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html
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| | Public Speaking & Speech Writing |
| | Build solid foundations for a successful speech by using your knowledge of the occasion, the audience, and their expectations. | | | Discover how to correctly structure your speech with a strong opening, a purposeful body, and a memorable conclusion. | | | Our guide will make public speaking a whole lot easier for you. |
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http://www.speechtips.com
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| | Speech-Language Disorders |
| | Girls' verbal skills are generally good, with no particular disorders in speech (articulation), vocabulary (semantics), or grammar (syntax). | | | In fact, delays in speaking may be the first sign to parents that something might be wrong in their child's development. | | | Speech and language development is affected by the physical, cognitive, and sensory-motor characteristics of each child. |
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http://www.fragilex.org/html/speech.htm
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| | The Command Post - The Publisher's Desk - Full Text Of My Speech To AP Managing Editors |
| | Currently, the fact is that viewers of Fox News (and Republicans in general, it turns out) know less about the world than consumers of other media choices. | | | How does your analysis accommodate the deeply researched article, sometimes occupying an investigative reporter for weeks or months, in the context of "fast", etc. | | | How does your analysis accommodate the deeply researched article, sometimes occupying an investigative reporter for weeks or months, in the context of “fast”, etc. |
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http://www.command-post.org/desk/archives/016029.html
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| | Processing Speech with Java |
| | Speech is such a common subject that whenever we bring it up as a topic of conversation, our friends look at us as if we are a little strange. | | | It is the engine's responsibility to handle any situations that it does not support in a graceful manner. | | | Our job as application programmers is much easier than it would have been in the 1970s because of two developments. |
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http://www.developer.com/java/article.php/1471001
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| | Speech Delay.com - Expert information on speech and language delays |
| | From a baby's first cries and coos to the complex speech production of adults, we all need and desire to communicate with others. | | | This website was created to help parents, caregivers, teachers, friends, therapists, and relatives of language/speech delayed children. | | | All children are born with some ability to communicate. |
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http://www.speechdelay.com
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| | Speech |
| | Speech/Language therapy will be provided for students one to four times per week for 15-45 minutes with small groups of children at or near your child’s grade level. | | | Following is information regarding your child’s speech therapy program | | | Put forth good effort and behavior during drill and center time. |
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http://neighbor.firn.edu/class/seminole/sabalpoint_es/dolli_etheridge/ese/speech1.html
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| | Speech |
| | Subsequently, many systems have been built that have similar system organization and run-time behavior. | | | Not only can you pick a voice for the demo, but you can also pick an emotion! | | | This elusive goal requires a deep understanding of the components of speech and of the subtle effects of a person's volume, pitch, timing and emphasis. |
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http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/speech.html
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| | Reverse Speech - Voices From The Unconscious |
| | Learn what age children learn to speak and how the unconscious mind develops using reverse speech. | | | Contact us about your comments, contributions and feedback | | | Find out why reverse speech is the world’s leading technology to give insight into the unconscious mind. |
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http://www.reversespeech.com/home.htm
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Speech impairment (adult) |
| | If impairment or loss of communication comes on suddenly, call your health care provider immediately. | | | Is there a problem expressing thoughts through speech? | | | Speech impairment may be any of several speech problems, particularly the following: |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003204.htm
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| | National MS Society Sourcebook: Speech and Swallowing Disorders |
| | They range from mild difficulties to severe problems that make it difficult to speak and be understood. | | | Speech therapists evaluate, diagnose and relieve these problems. | | | Speech patterns are controlled by many areas in the brain, especially the brainstem. |
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http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Sourcebook-Speech.asp
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| | Speech Research Lab: Speech Synthesis, Computational and Clinical Phonetics |
| | This track is for clinical professionals interested in learning more about our speech research and for those who may be interested in the application of speech synthesis software for people who are at risk of losing their ability to speak (such as | | | Famlies of children with speech disorders are wanted for a research study | | | Anyone who is interested in our research on speech disorders in children, speech analysis and synthesis, and voice banking can find basic information here. |
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http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech
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| | CSS3 Speech Module |
| | It can be represented in the following way (including the equivalent properties from the visual box model for clarification of relationships): | | | Speech synthesizers are knowledgeable about what is and what is not a number. | | | This results in less effective presentation than would be the case if the document structure were retained. |
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| | CNN.com - Schools under fire for 'free-speech zones' - May. 30, 2003 |
| | Silverglate's group sued Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania this year over a diversity policy that warns against "unconscious attitudes toward individuals which surface through the use of discriminatory semantics" and conduct or "attitude" that "annoys" others. | | | Generally, hate speech is allowed against a group, but not an individual, said university counsel Maria Shanle. | | | Free-speech zones began appearing on campuses in the 1980s as a way to allow expression without interrupting learning. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/05/30/campus.speech.ap
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| | Speech at CMU |
| | ISL is also involved in the CSTAR-II project and has a demo. | | | Speech Seminar Series future and recent talks on speech research. | | | Speech Analysis and Interpretation Lab at USC Viterbi School of Engineering |
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http://fife.speech.cs.cmu.edu/speech
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| | Speech |
| | Other versions of this “ecology” speech by Chief Seattle are obvious fakes, as writers such as Seattle Times reporter Ross Anderson has pointed out. | | | Also, his speech emphasizes a theme that was popular among European Americans in his time—the inevitable disappearance of American Indians. | | | As usual, too many people would rather believe myths about movie Indians than learn about real Indians. |
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http://www.chiefseattle.com/history/chiefseattle/speech/speech.htm
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| | SpeechTX |
| | Our Classic Speech Therapy Activities CD continues to be our bestseller. | | | To See what is on this CD, go to the Speech Therapy CD Table of Contents. | | | To See what is on this CD, go to the Speech Therapy ClipArtic CD Contents Page. |
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http://www.speechtx.com
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| | FSM: Mario Savio's Speech before the FSM Sit-in - December 3, 1964, Berkeley, California |
| | We hope to make it available soon, for it provides a fuller view of the balance of thought and feeling in his speech, and in the FSM. | | | Editorial note: This is the conclusion of Mario Savio's memorable speech, before Free Speech Movement demonstrators entered Sproul Hall to begin their sit-in on December 3, 1964. | | | His climactic words about "the operation of the machine" have been quoted widely ever since, out of context, as the existential emblem of the FSM. |
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http://www.fsm-a.org/stacks/mario/mario_speech.html
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| | Acapela Group - Speech Technologies |
| | Hear more with the on line demo and samples. | | | Acapela enables customers to create new ways of conversing and interacting with end-users through speech-enabled revenue-generating applications. | | | Entirely dedicated to developing and deploying natural language interfaces, Acapela Group is the European leader in speech solutions. |
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| | Chapomatic » A Must Read On Grand Strategy |
| | Some have come from students and colleagues, some from the media, some reflect my own concerns. | | | This was a speech that sets a course, but it does not promise a quick arrival at the destination, nor does it preclude diversions and delays, even contradictions and reversals, along the way. | | | The four characteristics of grand strategy cited in this speech all are also features of business, and are the kinds of things which are studied and taught in business schools (such as Harvard, where Bush got his MBA). |
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http://gmapalumni.org/chapomatic?p=790
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| | MoveOn.org Political Action: Democracy in Action |
| | As Lincoln said at our time of greatest trial, 'We -- even we here -- hold the power, and bear the responsibility.'" | | | P.S. The speech has also been getting terrific press from around the country. | | | We're also offering a DVD of the speech, which will be sent out in four to six weeks, for a $5 contribution. |
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http://www.moveon.org/pac/news/goredvd.html
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| | Speech synthesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Speech synthesis systems use two basic approaches to determine the pronunciation of a word based on its spelling, a process which is often called text-to-phoneme or grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, as phoneme is the term used by linguists to describe distinctive sounds in a language. | | | However, natural variation in speech and automated techniques for segmenting the waveforms sometimes result in audible glitches in the output, detracting from the naturalness. | | | Unit selection gives the greatest naturalness due to the fact that it does not apply a large amount of digital signal processing to the recorded speech, which often makes recorded speech sound less natural, although some systems may use a small amount of signal processing at the point of concatenation to smooth the waveform. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis
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| | China - Speech Group |
| | Acoustic model training techniques such as channel mapping and discriminative training. | | | Combining statistical and natural language processing techniques for prosody generation. | | | Speech Group in MSRA is working with the Speech Platforms Group to turn our technologies into reality. |
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http://research.microsoft.com/speech
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| | Acoustics of the Voice |
| | This is not a problem for understanding speech, but it may be a problem in learning precise pronunciation. | | | Existing technologies used in speech pathology and speech trainers to provide visual feedback from the speech sound are inherently limited in precision and practicality. | | | Our approach is therefore to introduce a signal with more information in the frequency domain. |
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http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/speech
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| | Speech Compression |
| | The compression of speech signals has many practical applications. | | | The above model is often called the LPC Model. | | | Morgan and B. Gold, Speech and Audio Signal Processing : Processing and Perception of Speech and Music. |
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http://www.data-compression.com/speech.html
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| | Java Speech API Frequently Asked Questions |
| | The JSAPI specification and JSGF and JSML specifications were developed as open specifications with input from a public review process. | | | It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. | | | The specification also includes a detailed Programmer's Guide which explains both introductory and advanced speech application programming with JSAPI. |
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http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/speech/forDevelopers/jsapifaq.html
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| | We also have tested a general fuzzy logical model of perception in a variety of domains, including perception and understanding of language, memory, object, shape and depth perception, learning, and decision making. | | | A major research area concerns speech perception by ear and eye, and facial animation. |
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http://mambo.ucsc.edu
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| | Resource Guide for Individuals with Language & Speech Difficulties and Impairments |
| | Language or speech difficulties and impairments include conditions such as aphasia (loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words, often as a result of brain damage), delayed speech (a symptom of cognitive impairment), and other conditions resulting in difficulties remembering, solving problems, or perceiving sensory information. | | | Screen review utilities make on-screen information available as synthesized speech and pairs the speech with a visual representation of a word, for example, highlighting a word as it is spoken. | | | For people who have these difficulties and impairments, complex or inconsistent visual displays or word choices can make using computers more difficult. |
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http://www.microsoft.com/enable/guides/language.aspx
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| | Speech Technology - Home |
| | The first such application we built was MiPad, a personal information manager used with speech and pen. | | | Our main goal is to build applications that make computers available everywhere, and work with Speech Platforms Group product group to make this vision a reality. | | | Microsoft Research has a group in Redmond and another in Beijing working together to improve spoken language technologies. |
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http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/srg
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| | E-Speech |
| | This system illustrates the sound quality that our custom speech generation systems can offer you for domain-specific applications such as names, addresses, timetables, financial transactions. | | | We provide software or dictionaries that can be used in your speech recognition or text-to-speech systems, as well as in systems with live call-center agents. | | | E-Speech has introduced a Latin-American Spanish synthesis system that speaks people's names with extremely high sound quality. |
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| | American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank |
| | The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. | | | Through the transcription process it has become evident that a number of speech texts found at other web locations bearing the same title/speaker contain various substantive and/or stylistic errors (e.g., omission, addition, false figuration). | | | The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world. |
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http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm
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| | SpeechFX |
| | SpeechFX is an ongoing project to change that. | | | It is already a full featured program and does not need any code to enable features, but registering will promote further development. | | | Speech Recognition as Apple distributes it does not include very many commands. |
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http://software.accettura.com/products/speechfx
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| | Charleton Heston Speech |
| | I remember my son when he was five, explaining to his kindergarten class what his father did for a living. | | | I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated. | | | But one given last month by Charlton Heston has taken on a life of its own. |
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http://mizai.tripod.com
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| | SRI Speech Technology and Research Laboratory |
| | The Speech Technology and Research Laboratory has a staff of about 25, including engineers, computer scientists, and linguists, offering a fine balance of the skills required for leading edge development: signal processing, phonetics/phonology, mathematical modeling, and software engineering. | | | The Speech Technology and Research (STAR) Laboratory at SRI is a world leader in speech technology, and is active in both technology creation and technology transfer. | | | SRI's DECIPHER technology is capable of recognizing natural, continuous speech without requiring the user to train the system in advance (i.e., speaker-independent recognition). |
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http://www.speech.sri.com/welcome.html
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| | Intel® - Speech Starter Kit |
| | Microsoft and Intel share a vision: making speech a mainstream technology that is accessible by any device, anytime, from anywhere. | | | Developers can choose the right combination of densities, protocols, and other components to suit the needs of their applications. | | | If you need a refresher on basic telephony concepts, read this white paper on telephony fundamentals. |
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http://www.intel.com/network/csp/solutions/speech/8731web.htm
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| | Apple - Mac OS X - Speech |
| | You can speak naturally, without pausing or stopping. | | | You don’t even have to train it to understand your voice, because it already understands you, from your very first word. | | | Apple’s leadership in speech recognition technology makes it possible by bringing a whole new dimension to the user interface: speech. |
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http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/speech
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| | Speech Solutions - Overview |
| | Intel has been leading the industry with the development and promotion of speech standards such as VXML and SALT. | | | In addition, Intel is active in other standards bodies such as W3C and IETF. | | | These standards provide open specifications and support industry preference for web-centric programming models. |
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http://www.intel.com/network/csp/solutions/speech/6877ovr.htm
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| | This site is mirrored at several other WWW sites around the world (Australia, UK, Japan and USA) and the information is also available in a plain text format. | | | Tony Robinson also maintains the comp.speech ftp site which is an excellent resource for all people working with speech technology. | | | FAQ Section 1: General Information on Speech Technology |
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http://fife.speech.cs.cmu.edu/comp.speech
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| | Freespeech Network: Home of Free Speech TV and Free Speech Online Community |
| | His book and speech explores the meanings and consequences of "whiteness," and discusses the ways in which racial privilege can harm not just people of color, but also whites. | | | Madison residents are organizing to add Free Speech TV to their local cable company¡¯s full-time offerings through Charter Communications. | | | Sign up today and start exploring FSN Online Community's various features, such as event calendars, journals, forums, blogs and your own community. |
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| | Event Archive: Al Gore - Commonwealth Club |
| | I have to tell you that I did some research about the vice presidency and found that quite a number of my predecessors did not really fully appreciate the job. | | | Just to give one example before I get into my speech here. | | | Support for the work of The Commonwealth Club is derived principally from membership dues. |
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http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/02/02-09gore-speech.html
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| | Rob's Rhapsody |
| | Tablet PC has some speech recognition built into it; it’s the predecessor to the great work we’ve been doing for Vista for the past couple years. | | | Here’s what they say about themselves on their web site: | | | Stop typing with one hand and drawing with the other hand--it's time to focus on the task at hand...getting the details into the computer. |
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http://blogs.msdn.com/robch/default.aspx
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| | CBS News Text Of Zell Miller's RNC Speech September 1, 2004 22:51:20 |
| | For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. | | | Our country was not yet at war, but even we children knew that there were some crazy men across the ocean who would kill us if they could. | | | President Roosevelt, in his speech that summer, told America "all private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger." |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/01/politics/main640299.shtml
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| | American Civil Liberties Union : Free Speech |
| | Since 1920, the ACLU has worked to preserve our freedom of speech. | | | Learn more about the distinction between these two components of the ACLU. | | | Calls for censorship threaten to erode free speech. |
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http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeechMain.cfm
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