God seeks to speak to us in human voice, in our language, the language of flesh and blood, through the thin reeds that are human vocal chords.
Then, in a demonstration that led to stunned applause, he paused after each sentence and the words were translated into Mandarin Chinese characters, accompanied by a simulation of his own voice in that language, which Dr. Rashid has never spoken.
One of the foundations of ASL is to use their facial expression to show their emotions (akin to tone of voice in spoken language) so it's important for actors to use it.
I realized that there comes a time in every woman's life when she needs to be sung to by a man with a heartbreakingly handsome voice in a language she doesn't understand.
Rachel Holmes, in hot pink, displays her elegant line in a frenetic solo, but there's no distinct choreographic voice in "Vanishing Languages".
In just six years, Avaaz – which means "voice" in various languages – has become a global pressure group to be reckoned with.
Over 45 years, Farah has pursued complex, elusive truths as one of Africa's greatest novelists, and a cosmopolitan voice in English-language fiction.
Standing 140cm (4ftalln) tand and equipped with wheels under his white frame, Pepper can recognise the human voice in 20 languages and detect if he is talking to a man, woman or child.
Calling their group Avaaz, which means "voice" in several languages, the founders aimed to reproduce globally some of the success which their progenitors like America's Moveon.org, and Australia's Getup!—had enjoyed in national political arenas.By its own lights, the movement, using 14 languages and engaged in a mind-boggling list of causes, has had some spectacular successes.
For proof of concept, we built voices in English language using an audiobook (read speech) in a female voice from LibriVox and a lecture (spontaneous speech) in a male voice from Coursera, using both the reference and hypotheses transcriptions, and evaluate them in terms of intelligibility and naturalness with the help of a perceptual listening test on the Blizzard 2013 corpus.
