Sentence examples for that listen for from inspiring English sources

"Everybody thinks there are phone systems that listen for the words 'bomb' and 'death' and 'president,' " said Brad Jenkins, the president of 01.com, an Internet service provider in Sacramento.

So like the Echo, Google Home combines a wireless speaker with a set of microphones that listen for your voice commands.

The Wave Glider can carry a range of acoustic sensors that listen for vessels on the sea or piece together a picture of the ocean floor.

This is perhaps fitting for work that is invisible in the great drama of globalisation: disembodied hands that bring and fetch, tend and serve; ears that listen for the child's cry and the sound of the intruder in the house; eyes watchful for the falling infant, the cobweb on the ceiling, the dust on the floor.

In an overview briefing, Mr. Filipkowski said the surveillance system was eventually to have a total of 170 stations that detect underground shock waves, 11 that track undersea explosions, 80 that sniff the air for telltale radioactivity and 60 that listen for loud sounds in the atmosphere.

In all, the surveillance system is to have 170 stations that detect underground shock waves, 11 that track undersea explosions, 80 that sniff the air for telltale radioactivity and 60 that listen for revealing sounds in the atmosphere, including winds and shock waves.

I know because I listened for that — listened for some indication that I was wrong about myself.

So the team designed a computer program that listens for stuttering vocalization patterns independent of language.

SoundSense is a small wearable device that listens for noises that might require immediate attention and alerts the user when it detects one.

Key to the team's analysis was seismic velocity data from the U.S. Transportable Array, a traveling grid of seismometers that "listens" for low-level earthquakes and tracks the way their energy passes through the subsurface.

Conversely, some people argue that listening for ET at radio frequencies is the wrong approach.