Even with a hearing aid turned to full volume, some elderly people can't make sense of speech.
Yet monkeys have a vocabulary as well--coos, grunts, screeches, barks, and warbles--and new research suggests that they process these sounds in roughly the same part of the brain that people use to make sense of speech.
In acting he insisted upon a realistic rather than a declamatory style and made speaking pauses follow the sense of speeches rather than their metre.
It is empowering, enriching and liberating in the most literal sense: freedom of speech, freedom of association, access to knowledge and access to the most exciting and glorious marketplace in the world.
Volio combines video with natural language processing software that helps computers make sense of human speech.
"We're having a very hard time making sense of the speech," the ISIS spokesman said.
Some of the material swings close to the prosaic, yet Motion's deft lineation and deletions work double-time to preserve the true sense of natural speech.
The poet who focuses exclusively on his lines loses the sense of natural speech, and therefore an important contrapuntal aspect of the poem, whereas the adept reader can maintain the flow of the sentences while suggesting, ever so subtly, the rhythmical and accentual scaffolding inside them.
For a start, the desire to block, ban or remove something comes up against the fact that both Facebook and Twitter are deeply imbued with the United States's first amendment and its sense of free speech, which can at times seem like the freedom of a privileged elite to speak, lecture and make jokes.
'Lèse majesté provides a convenient tool for authorities who want to suppress any sense of independent speech or comment on current affairs.'.
Systems for memory, decision-making, judgement, sense of direction/location, speech, continence, walking and eating are all methodically destroyed until the disease progression ends in death.
