commercial speech

collocation in English

meaningsofcommercialandspeech

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commercial
adjective
uk
/kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/us
/kəˈmɝː.ʃəl/
related to making money by buying and ...
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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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(Definition ofcommercialandspeechfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcommercial speech

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Increasingly,commercialspeech-recognition systems are providing key-wordspotting capacility in their recognizers.
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The dominantcommercialspeechsynthesis technique today achieves a high-quality sound using concatenation of very short pre-recorded speech segments, and as such cannot be considered a model.
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That is intolerable, as is the attack on the freedom ofcommercialspeechand advertising, which is paranoid and spurious.
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Historically, courts have awarded greater protection for political speech thancommercialspeech.
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After reviewing the posted content in the case, the court classified the anonymous postings and videos ascommercialspeech.
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However, the court has upheld compelledcommercialspeechwhere it is the inclusion of purely factual and uncontroversial information in advertising.
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Restrictions ofcommercialspeechare subject to a four-element intermediate scrutiny.
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Intermediate scrutiny also applies to regulation ofcommercialspeech, as long as the state interests in regulating relate to fair bargaining.
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He also distinguishedcommercialspeechfrom such unprotected categories of speech such as fighting words and obscenity.
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An infomercial is a work ofcommercialspeech(typically a television advertisement) whose purpose is to advertise a commercial endeavor.
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In fact, the consumer's concern for the free flow ofcommercialspeechoften may be far keener than his concern for urgent political dialogue.
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Telemarketing corporations and trade groups challenged this as a violation ofcommercialspeechrights.
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Until recently, articulatory synthesis models have not been incorporated intocommercialspeechsynthesis systems.
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Another topic in the case was the prohibition of advertising suppressingcommercialspeechabout any contraceptive device.
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He pointed to the potentially misleading nature ofcommercialspeech, and suggested that consumers who truly needed such information could easily seek it out themselves.
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An appeal against the advertising restrictions on the grounds of free speech was denied on the basis that this wascommercialspeechpromoting an unlawful activity.
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