Sentence examples for approaching speech from inspiring English sources

That her soprano lacked force in the middle and lower registers, turning gray and approaching speech, might also have given her pause.

This has led to some unfortunate mannerisms: a lot of swooping up to high notes; a breathiness in some notes as if to emphasize their unoperatic naturalness; and, similarly, an artless flatness of some vowels which may be a deliberate attempt to approach speech but also makes for some unintentionally ugly sounds.

In some operas the music is continuous throughout an act; in others it is broken up into discrete pieces, or "numbers," separated either by recitative (a dramatic type of singing that approaches speech) or by spoken dialogue.

In the conventional approaches, speech and facial expression have successfully been combined for multimodality, since they both directly convey human emotions [4, 5].

Compared to existing approaches, speech enhancement based on UMVAD and DDBSE can obtain a better segment SNR score and composite measure c ovl score, especially in adverse environments such as non-stationary noise and low-SNR.

Rhode Island's Sheldon Whitehouse wins top honors on the list for his near-constant support of environment (he's approaching 100 speeches on climate change).

The experiment was conducted in the absence of any disturbing background noise at a speech level approaching the threshold of hearing (22 dB(A) re 20 μPa).

We evaluate the DNN approach for speech enhancement and compare it to the approach of DS beamformer plus spectral subtraction (SS).

The governor was approached, after his speech, by a homeless man, who embraced him.

To be fair, Gordon Brown was in a no win situation as he approached yesterday's speech.

The model can also be viewed as an approach to speech analysis based on the physiology of hearing, as opposed to more popular approaches based on the physiology of speech.