conversational speech

collocation in English

meaningsofconversationalandspeech

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conversational
adjective
uk
/ˌkɒn.vəˈseɪ.ʃən.əl/us
/ˌkɑːn.vɚˈseɪ.ʃən.əl/
relating to or like ...
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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 ofconversationalandspeechfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconversational speech

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Separate files were then created for the sentences and theconversationalspeechsample for each talker.
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Some prosody is present, but not as much as in normalconversationalspeechor it is not consistently used.
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Each talker was recorded producing a range of utterances, including isolated words, sentences, andconversationalspeech.
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Phonetic variation occurs naturally inconversationalspeech, both within and across talkers.
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Also, all of the children were judged to produce intelligibleconversationalspeech, demonstrating few, if any, phonological problems.
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An attempt to determine the contribution of speaking rate differences in intelligibility between clear andconversationalspeech.
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Identification of stops and vowels for the burst portion of /p, t, k/ isolated fromconversationalspeech.
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Effects of speaking rate and word frequency on pronunciations inconversationalspeech.
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Theconversationalspeech-exchange system provides for turn taking, sequencing (connecting a current turn to prior and next turns), and repair of troubles in hearing and understanding.
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They provide examples of between-word harmony and reduplication gathered from connected speech, and use these to argue for the assessment of phonological skills usingconversationalspeechsampling.
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If more than 1 min ofconversationalspeechwas available, samples slightly longer than 1 min were allowed to end the sample at the end of a sentence or phrase.
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Conversationalspeechsampling in the assessment of articulation proficiency.
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In machine translation, it has been applied to the translation of spontaneousconversationalspeechamong different languages.
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In extremely rare examples, some speakers will use the formal code exclusively in everydayconversationalspeech.
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The letter inconversationalspeechis pronounced similar to.
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However, the styles are very different as one is heavily structured and rhymed while the other tries to mimicconversationalspeech.
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