Sentence examples for monotonous speech from inspiring English sources

Somewhat different effects of F0 a larger increase of scores for small differences and a dip occurring at one octave were found in earlier studies that used completely monotonous speech (Brokx & Nooteboom, 1982; Bird & Darwin, 1998), probably due to partial fusion of target and interfering sounds.

It won't matter how confident you are if no one is listening to you; monotonous speech will cause your audience to quickly disengage.

"A man who shines very little, from whom we cannot recall a single phrase of his monotonous speeches, someone who projects absolute fidelity, a good physical presence and a dose of youth (52), so needed by Raul Castro to show that his government is generationally renewing itself".

And so, politicians had to give terrible halting and monotonous speeches using only pieces of paper.

Abbott was not a "flashy" barrister; although known as an excellent lawyer, his speeches were monotonous and he lacked an imagination.

Binns and Culling (2007) used target and interfering speech with normal, flat (monotonous), and inverted F0 contours and found an increase of the SRT of up to 4 dB when the F0 contour of the target speech was manipulated but no significant effect of manipulations of the interfering speech.

Mr. Pacino (who delivered a more naturalistic Shylock in Michael Radford's 2004 film) plays up the sing-song rhythms of Shylock's speech in a weary, monotonous rasp, as if those cadences were what kept him in control of himself.

He speaks in a soft-spoken and nearly monotonous manner, often stringing together technical words as a matter of his normal speech.

All the speeches were very slow and monotonous and they built up in such a way that it created this constant low rumble.

Sure, it can be monotonous to listen to the same measured stump speech again and again, but Mr. Romney's usual adherence to the script has given us a newfound appreciation for those little quirks and moments when he blips off message.

The more mature response may become obvious only in the ten names condition in which the infant's own name is more easily detected in the speech stream than in the more monotonous one name condition.