He refers to British director Christopher Nolan ’ s The Dark Knight and Inception as British rather than as American films, and yet " when a movie which looks quintessentially ‘ British ’, such as The King's Speech, achieves equivalent success, everyone suddenly starts writing articles about the state of our national cinema as if it somehow exists in isolation.

Speech signal processing refers to the acquisition, manipulation, storage, transfer and output of vocal utterances by a computer.

Kerr ’ s second memoir, The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967 Volume Two: Political Turmoil details what he refers to as his greatest blunders in dealing with the Free Speech Movement that ultimately led to his firing.

" The day was the 65th anniversary of the Japanese military's attack on Pearl Harbor, and the punchline of the strip refers to Franklin D. Roosevelt's " Infamy Speech " which requested from Congress a declaration of war against Japan.

* Speech encoding refers to compression for transmission or storage, possibly to an unintelligible state, with decompression used prior to playback.

Minnesota High School Speech refers to the competitive forensics system in the state of Minnesota.

Speech delay, also known as alalia, refers to a delay in the development or use of the mechanisms that produce speech.

Speech, as distinct from language, refers to the actual process of making sounds, using such organs and structures as the lungs, vocal cords, mouth, tongue, teeth, etc.

The current usage of the modern English word marquee that refers specifically to a canopy projecting over the main entrance of a theater, which displays details of the entertainment or performers, was documented in the academic journal American Speech in 1926: " Marquee, the front door or main entrance of the big top.

Speech, on account of the whole preceding life of the adult, is connected up with all the internal and external stimuli which can reach the cortex, signaling all of them and replacing all of them, and therefore it can call forth all those reactions of the organism which are normally determined by the actual stimuli themselves.

Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition,, further upheld these rights by invalidating the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996, holding that, because the act " rohibit child pornography that does not depict an actual child ..." it was overly broad and unconstitutional under the First Amendment and that:

Speech acts can be analysed on three levels: A locutionary act, the performance of an utterance: the actual utterance and its ostensible meaning, comprising phonetic, phatic and rhetic acts corresponding to the verbal, syntactic and semantic aspects of any meaningful utterance ; an illocutionary act: the pragmatic ' illocutionary force ' of the utterance, thus its intended significance as a socially valid verbal action ( see below ); and in certain cases a further perlocutionary act: its actual effect, such as persuading, convincing, scaring, enlightening, inspiring, or otherwise getting someone to do or realize something, whether intended or not ( Austin 1962 ).

The following year, however, in Abrams v. United States, Holmes — influenced by Zechariah Chafee's article " Freedom of Speech in War Time " — delivered a strongly worded dissent in which he criticized the majority's use of the clear and present danger test, arguing that protests by political dissidents posed no actual risk of interfering with war effort.

Speech recognition by a machine is a process broken into several phases.

Harvard Professor Zechariah Chafee critiqued the raids and attempts at deportations and the lack of legal process in his 1920 volume Freedom of Speech.

Speech Act ( Illocutionary ) Analysis allows for a useful understanding of the status of a negotiation between ( for instance ) a health care provider and a patient INDEPENDENT of any well-accepted credible and comprehensive understanding of a disease process as it might apply to that patient.

* Speech synthesis is the reverse process of speech recognition.

Speech therapy is commonly used to correct this condition since the speech process uses the same neuromuscular structures as swallowing.

* Speech recognition, the process of converting speech to text

The Court held in Eastland v. United States Servicemen's Fund that Congressional subpoenas are within the scope of the Speech and Debate clause which provides " an absolute bar to judicial interference " once it is determined that Members are acting within the " legitimate legislative sphere " with such compulsory process.

The publication of the Green Paper together with the item in the Queen's Speech may not deliver much immediately, but if it can be established early on in the process which aspects of any proposed new legislation will become retrospective then there is opportunity for it to start having an immediate social impact.

She is in the process of learning The Speech, despite the fact that she's not a wizard.

The legality of the raid was challenged in court, where a federal appeals court ruled that the FBI had violated the Speech or Debate clause of the United States Constitution by allowing the executive branch to review materials that were part of the legislative process.

By tradition, the Chancellor has been allowed to drink whatever he or she wishes whilst making the annual Budget Speech to parliament.

Claims of a " Treaty of Waitangi Grievance Industry ", which profits from making frivolous claims of violations of the Treaty of Waitangi, have been made by a number of political figures, including former National Party leader Don Brash in his 2004 " Orewa Speech ".

In 1956, after Nikita Khrushchev shook the Communist world by making his famous Secret Speech denouncing the cult of personality that surrounded Joseph Stalin, Mao wanted to ensure that a similar incident within the CPC would not happen.

In addition to being an acting school, the Central School of Speech and Drama offers training and education in a broad range of vocational and applied theatre specialties available, providing courses in acting, voice studies, producing, design for the stage, applied theatre & education, drama and movement therapy, lighting design and production, media and drama education, musical theatre, performance arts, prop making, puppetry, scenic art, scenic construction, costume construction, scenography, set design, theatre sound, stage management, technical and production management and writing.

Since Cued Speech is based on making sounds visible to the hearing impaired, Cued Speech is not limited to use in English speaking nations.

whereas Cued Speech is not a language but simply a method of making spoken sounds visible.

The so-called " Secret Speech " was therefore publicly read at literally thousands of meetings, making the colloquial name of the report something of a misnomer.

Born in London, McKenna trained there at the Central School of Speech and Drama then worked on stage in London's West End theatres before making her motion picture debut in 1952.

One Head Boy and one Head Girl, supported by several deputies, take on additional roles including making introductions at Speech Day and representing the school at various events.

Modern phonetics begins with attempts — such as those of Joshua Steele ( in Prosodia Rationalis, 1779 ) and Alexander Melville Bell ( in Visible Speech, 1867 ) — to introduce systems of precise notation for speech sounds.

* Real-time MRI video of the articulation of speech sounds, from the USC Speech Articulation and kNowledge ( SPAN ) Group

Speech organs produce the many sounds needed for language.

Speech processor-part of a cochlear implant that converts speech sounds into electrical impulses to stimulate the auditory nerve, allowing an individual to understand sound and speech.

His 1983 album, Inarticulate Speech of the Heart was " a move towards creating music for meditation " with synthesisers, uilleann pipes and flute sounds and four of the tracks were instrumentals.

* Speech sound disorders involve difficulty in producing specific speech sounds ( most often certain consonants, such as / s / or / r /), and are subdivided into articulation disorders ( also called phonetic disorders ) and phonemic disorders.

Speech disorders refer to problems in producing the sounds of speech or with the quality of voice, where language disorders are usually an impairment of either understanding words or being able to use words and does not have to do with speech production

Speech processors are the components of the cochlear implant that transforms the sounds picked up by the microphone into electronic signals capable of being transmitted to the internal receiver.

Cued Speech is based on the hypothesis that if all the sounds in the spoken language looked clearly different from each other on the lips of the speaker, the hearing impaired would learn the language in much the same way as does the hearing person, but through vision rather than audition.

Speech is often unclear due to inability to pronounce certain sounds.

Chart of English sounds written in Visible Speech from a On the Nature and Use of Visible Speech by A. G. Bell ( 1872 )

Speech eurythmy includes such elements as the sounds of speech, rhythms, poetic meters, grammar and mood.