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21Speech act — For the US Act, see SPEECH Act of 2010. Speech Act is a technical term in linguistics and the philosophy of language. The contemporary use of the term goes back to John L. Austin s doctrine of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts.… …
22speech — [[t]spitʃ[/t]] n. 1) the faculty or power of speaking; ability to express one s thoughts and emotions by speech sounds 2) the act of speaking 3) something that is spoken; an utterance 4) a form of communication in spoken language, made by a… …
23form class — noun one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context • Syn: ↑part of speech, ↑word class • Hypernyms: ↑grammatical category, ↑syntactic category • Hyponyms: ↑major form class …
24Speech recognition — For the human linguistic concept, see Speech perception. The display of the Speech Recognition screensaver on a PC, in which the character responds to questions, e.g. Where are you? or statements, e.g. Hello. Speech recognition (also known as… …
25Speech synthesis — Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous people using speech synthesis to communicate Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented… …
26Speech repetition — Children copy with their own mouths the words spoken by the mouths of those around them. This enables them to learn the pronunciation of words not already in their vocabulary. Speech repetition is the saying by one individual of the spoken… …
27Speech Application Programming Interface — The Speech Application Programming Interface or SAPI is an API developed by Microsoft to allow the use of speech recognition and speech synthesis within Windows applications. To date a number of versions of the API have been released, which have… …
28Speech from the Throne — The Speech from the Throne (or Throne Speech) is an event in certain monarchies in which the monarch (or a representative) reads a prepared speech to a complete session of parliament, outlining the government s agenda for the coming year. This… …
29Speech scroll — A speech scroll, also called a banderole in Western art history, is an illustrative device used to denote speech, song, or, in rarer cases, other types of sound. Developed independently on two continents, the device was in use by European… …
30Speech and Reality — Infobox Book name = Speech and Reality image size = image caption =Cover of Speech and Reality author = Eugen Rosenstock Huessy country = United States language = English subject = Social philosophy genre = Philosophy publisher = Argo Books pub… …
