Birds in Homer are the ultimate image of speech and of freedom.
Often, inner speech is simply defined as a silent form of speech; for example, Levine, Calvanio, and Popovics (1982) call it the "subjective phenomenon of talking to oneself, of developing an auditory articulatory image of speech without uttering a sound" (p. 391).
The opposite of "literally" is "figuratively", so if you use "literally" and you're not trying to distinguish what you just said from a figure of speech, an image or a simile, you sound like you spent the afternoon huffing gold-fleck paint.
Figures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are spectrogram images of some speech signals.
Wundt's American counterpart, and contemporary, William James, took a not dissimilar view, although he was careful to acknowledge that in some people the "thought stuff," as he called it, might consist not so much of visual imagery as of imagery of other modes, especially the "verbal images" of inner speech (James, 1890 ch. 18).
"Devil?" "Figure of speech.
Some recent researches already have extracted speech feature from spectrogram image of a speech signal for audio retrieval system [49, 50].
As the images of her commencement speech go by, the voice of Senator Barbara Boxer of California declares, "Hillary was a star way before she got to the White House".
