For six months, volunteers have been securing endorsements, scheduling speakers, collecting donations, writing and rewriting press releases that have gone out to dozens of media outlets in D.C. and throughout the United States.
The neutral speech samples of 300 utterances from each target speaker are collected and used to train the neutral speech model set of that target speaker.
Just ask Robert De Niro, who stopped by City Hall yesterday just as Council Speaker Gifford Miller collected on a bet with Mr. Miller's Minneapolis counterpart.
Just days after the House passed its version of the federal tax law slashing corporate tax rates, House Speaker Paul Ryan collected nearly $500,000 in campaign contributions from billionaire energy mogul Charles Koch and his wife, according to a recent campaign donor report.
The Basotho speakers were collected in Lesotho in 2009 (Marks et al. 2012, 2014); the Owambo, Mbukushu, and Kwangali were collected in Namibia in 2010 and 2012.
As speaker, Mr. Silver collects an extra $41,500, and Mr. Sampson, though he does not get anything more as Senate leader, does receive an extra $18,000 as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Subsequent interviews were held with each native speaker to collect alternative interpretations and comments on the authenticity of the dialogs.
For each Speaker, we collect periodically (every 30 min) her Twitter timeline, tweets and retweets, along with the list of her followers.
For each monitored Speaker, we collect at each sampling instant her list of followers F(S), tweets, retweets, Repeaters and the set of followers for each Repeater F(R).
