"I find it a bit disturbing and somewhat offensive that the concept of the intellectually deficient consumer has found a voice in our legislative process," he said.
This characterisation of women's voices as somehow deficient is an enduring theme in the history of broadcasting, dogging women's attempts to get on air.
As The Huffington Post reported last week, veterans are increasingly voicing frustrations about delayed and deficient help. .
The former can be achieved when the covariance matrix of the desired signal is rank deficient, which is the case, for example, for voiced speech.
Voice disorders cover a wide range of troubles which could be related to various aetiologies, including organic lesion of vocal folds (acquired or congenital), deficient control of breathing, deficient control of laryngeal articulation, as well as psychological difficulties.
Three years later, after a passenger was injured when the Newhouse made a hard landing in July 1998, investigators found that voice announcements by deckhands alerting passengers that the boat was about to dock were "deficient in clarity, volume and content".
The learners do not perceive themselves as deficient non-native speakers but rather as competent heteroglossic speakers and authors who can develop a voice worth hearing (Hymes 1996: 64).
Candidly acknowledging China's destructive penchant for extremism, for lurching from one form of totalism to another, Mr. Wang has become one of the first indigenous voices to critique China's "economic miracle" fully and publicly and to find it a deficient remedy for the failures of socialism.
In [5], the authors suggest to estimate the filter matrix (Equation 13) only when the speech source is active, using a voice activity detector (VAD), but this generally does not prevent the matrix W n,m from being rank deficient.
Is he mentally deficient?
