speech output

collocation in English

meaningsofspeechandoutput

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speech
noun
uk
/spiːtʃ/us
/spiːtʃ/
the ability to talk, the activity of talking, or a piece of ...
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output
noun[U]
uk
/ˈaʊt.pʊt/us
/ˈaʊt.pʊt/
an amount of something produced by a person, machine, factory, ...
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(Definition ofspeechandoutputfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Here, too,speechoutputsystems are not affected directly, but language perception is impaired (as a result of temporal lobe damage).
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This study also showed that at lower levels of achievement, narrative abilities and grammatical competence is heavily driven by the volume ofspeechoutput.
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Given that a language tag is just one feature, how do we ensure that the correct response controlsspeechoutput?
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The transcription was done quasiorthographically, with some phonetic detail so as to give a clearer description of the actualspeechoutput.
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Thespeechoutputis generated by concatenating diphones, small speech segments consisting of the transition between two adjacent phonemes.
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Such an analysis may yield unreliable and incomplete results, which has a negative impact on the prosodic quality of thespeechoutput.
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This combination of techniques makes it possible to create linguistically sound but efficient systems with a high quality language andspeechoutput.
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Furthermore, the syntheticspeechoutputwas accentuated using gestures to stress certain focussed words and phrases.
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Interestingly, and consistent with the previous results, naming problems were apparent in most of these cases, whereasspeechoutput, comprehension, and repetition were intact.
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At higher levels of ability, learners are able to use more complex grammatical elements without a corresponding increase inspeechoutput.
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That is, they were able to increase their use of grammatical elements without a corresponding increase inspeechoutput.
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Second, the prosodic quality of thespeechoutputis often suboptimal.
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Now, the only reason to posit stages of maturation in representational capacity is presumably to account for observed differences inspeechoutputover time.
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If children'sspeechoutputwere a reliable indicator of the state of their grammar, we would expect that they would be able to parse their own speech.
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In particular, and together with the quality of thespeechoutput(cf. above), the voice type has a major influence on how pleasant users find the 'system's voice'.
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The results of our study showed that the children withspeechoutputdifficulties had a specific deficit on the unfamiliar accent task compared to the familiar accent task.
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This increased exposure/experience might enhance theirspeechoutputcapabilities, enabling them to produce a greater number of segments more accurately, particularly in final position consonants, it appears.
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Negative feedback applies in cases where the child's grammatical competence is essentially adultlike but where errors in performance continue to feature in the child'sspeechoutput.
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Hence, the effects of negative evidence are not merely confined to the child's immediatespeechoutput.
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