In a broad-gauge speech in Washington on the state of the American oil and gas industry, Mr. Gerard said that because of new petroleum finds and new drilling techniques – chiefly directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing in shale formations – the United States could become the world's leading energy producer.
It is my new way to gauge a political speech.
Each year, the speeches gauge the national mood, youthful obsessions, geopolitical flashpoints and planetary health.
Here's what Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, said in a speech last week: "To gauge just how out of touch the Democrat leadership is on the war on terror, just close your eyes and try to imagine Ted Kennedy landing that Navy jet on the deck of that aircraft carrier".
And from the tone of her speech, you quickly gauge if she's happy or sad.
There's also built-in speech recognition to gauge the reader's pronunciation – and voices can be record to specific panels, if you want to share your amazing newfound pronunciation skills over social media, I guess.
U.S. officials, who had announced agreement on a draft text just hours before Karzai's speech, must now gauge whether he was grandstanding or angling for more concessions.
That's because Dr. Hirschberg is teaching computers how to spot deception — programming them to parse people's speech for patterns that gauge whether they are being honest.
An added purpose was to determine if chorus reading could be further refined so as to provide a perceptual guide for gauging the level of physical effort exerted during speech production.
No polls have yet been released that reflect the public's reaction to Mitt Romney's acceptance speech on Thursday, but some sought to gauge reaction to the first two days of the Republican convention.
In the wake of all of this news, we've reached out to a number of top sites to gauge what proactive steps they're taking to address the rising tide of online hate speech.
