A company showed a new voice technology able to produce such a convincing human-sounding voice that it was able to speak to a receptionist.

A week went by, a woman called to speak to Alice.

As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing.

Both the hand movements and the very idea of communicating without speaking attracted me.

During my first quarter, I spoke directly to the chancellor, asking him for support towards my initiatives, met with the vice chancellors.

Hannah began to speak out about the homelessness in manitoba and then in other provinces.

Harvold, who has not passed his driving test, said, \I realized the bus was out of control when I was speaking to the students.\

How many languages are spoken by less than 6000 people at present?

I spoke with our delivery department at about ten this morning, and they said that the chairs will be delivered by four this afternoon.

I was afraid that to speak in front of a larger group of people.

If you want to improve your speaking skills, you can go to room 602.

In fact, half of the 6, 000-7, 000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization UNESCO.

In recent years, many writers have begun to speak the 'decline of class' and 'classless society' in Britain.

In that case, ask to speak in person as soon as possible and say sorry.

In the coming months, we are bringing together artists from all over the globe, to enjoy speaking Shakespeare's plays in their own language, in our globe, within the architecture Shakespeare wrote for.

It can also speak different languages and make recommendations for different items based on what the customer is shopping for.

It was so noisy that we couldn't hear ourselves speak.

Italians always \see me as a foreigner,\ an outsider, even though she's stayed in the country for years and can speak the local language fluently, she said.

One group was asked to seek out an interaction with its waiter; the other, to speak only when necessary.

Our standard course guarantees a significant increase in your confidence in a foreign language, with focused teaching in all 4 skill areas----speaking, listening, reading and writing.

People speak very fast and it's hard to get them to repeat things.

She speaks itAlian well enough for her job.

Some language experts believe that 10000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 1200 languages between them.

Steve and Naomi spoke in musical code lines, beats, intervals, moving from the root to end a song in a new key.

The damage is usually more serious on the first plant, but the neighbors, relatively speaking, stay safer because they heard the alarm and knew what to do.

The effect is so powerful that scientists speak of songbirds and seabirds being\captured\by searchlights on land or by the light from gas flares on marine oil platforms.

The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages, often spoken by many people, while hot, wet zones have lots, often spoken by small numbers.

The median number(中位数) of speakers is a mere 6000, which means that half the world's languages are spoken by fewer people than that.

The passenger made an apology to angie o'edema because he spoke very loudly on his phone.

The spoken languages were enough in all my interactions.

The words a person speaks tell her or his class.

Therefore, when a person from one of these cultures is speaking and suddenly stops, what Maybe implied is that the person wants the listener to consider what has been said before continuing.

Uses of prezi in listening and speaking courses draw students' attention to speaking more fluently.

Whaley says the project is about more than just learning to read and speak in public.

When this takes place, especially when a new-born company has no revenue to speak of, the regulators should raise red flags.

With shining dark eyes, he seems like the of kid who would enjoy public speaking.

Works of this type, he believed, spoke to deep and unvarying features of human nature and could continue to exist over centuries.

Traditional Ukrainian decorated eggs also spoke to those fears.

Contemporary artists have followed this tradition to create eggs that speak to the anxieties of our age: Life is precious, and delicate.

She was the first candidate to speak out for strong pre-K programming.

She primarily speaks to students in health classes, but sometimes the school will arrange for her to speak to several different groups of girls.

Jody Hubbard is a diet and nutrition expert who travels around the state to speak in middle and high schools.

We are losing revenue as we speak, Donahoe said.

They asked, Was it as good as American beef? It was very exciting for me to be on Japanese TV, speaking in Japanese about how delicious the beef was.

Ifyou can speak the language, it’s easier to get to know thecountry and its people.

The research argued that boys often perform badly in mixed schools because they become discouraged when their female peers do better earlier in speaking and reading skills.

Mr David Rossi stated that he had spoken with McLaughlin on several occasions about his driving record.

Of course, I'm good at computers and I can speak Spanish.

But it's a fact that informative speaking saves lives.

He is very good at public speaking

Who did Alex Gordon speak to at the first meeting?

You are speaking to a voice coming from someone you cannot see.

Later he spoke with one of the senior managers.

And my boyfriend's English is so good that we just basically speak English all the time.

If you can speak the language, it's easier to get to know the country and its people.

In an all girls setting, girls are more likely to speak up frequently and make significant contributions to class than in a coeducational setting.

within the Alps in central Europe is Liechtenstein, a tiny country of about 30, 000 people who speak mostly German.

The British traveler Charles Thompson spoke for many Grand Tourists when in 1744 he described himself as being impatiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which once gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with cabinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relics.

They speak with Mom or Dad when they have a problem.

He spoke out against the idea of white and black as distinct groups, claiming that these distinctions ignored the scope of human diversity.

When you hear people speaking of making a rapid transition toward any type of energy, whether it is a switch from coal to nuclear power, or a switch from gasoline-powered cars to electric cars, or even a switch from an incandescent to a fluorescent light, understanding energy system inertia and momentum can help you decide whether their plans are feasible.

After all, we don't speak only of objects or people as having momentum; we speak of entire systems having momentum.

Worldwide people speak differently from the way they write, and texting -quick, casual and only intended to be read once — is actually a way of talking with your fingers.

Quite often, educators tell families of children who are learning English as a second language to speak only English, and not their native language, at home.

It is also of concern that the misguided advice that students should speak only English is given primarily to poor families with limited educational opportunities, not to wealthier families who have many educational advantages

Since children from poor families often are identified as at-risk for academic failure, teachers believe that advising families to speak English only is appropriate.

Advising non-English-speaking families to speak only English is overwhelming to telling them not to communicate with or interact with their children

Realizing that this particular audience would find his regional accent unattractive, Larry planned to speak with an accent that would be more acceptable to his audience.

Larry arrived early for his speaking engagement.

By speaking in a deep, loud voice

By speaking with the local accent.

His writing and speaking raised the awareness of the importance of conservation and helped bring about our national park system.

What did John Muir intend to do through writing and speaking

So she was not surprised to see a number of hands go up as soon as she finished speaking

At office meetings and in group discussions, they might speak up more often, express strong opinions and come up with more creative and practical ideas than their male colleagues.

Speak loudly enough to attract attention

Since he was speaking in the Midwest, he decided to begin by noting that the most severe earthquake in American history took place not in California or Alaska but at New Madrid, Missouri in 1811.

\If they are anywhere near worth their salt as engineers, I bet they are rethinking their threat model as we speak,\ said Jonathan Zdziarski, a digital expert who studies the iPhone and its vulnerabilities.

For example, the 250,000 people who live on Vanuatu's 80 islands speak 110 different languages.

simultaneous interpreting, putting someone's words into another language more or less as they speak, sounds to me like the more difficult.

They live in 16 different communities and speak 16 distinct languages.

This can hinder your ability to make decisions, speak up and gain recognition for your individual skills and strengths.

While the candle is being lit, a principle is recited; then each person present takes a turn to speak about the importance that principle has to himself or herself.

Yet the residents of each village speak a completely different language.

More recently, while examining housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English- speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building industry’s work.

There is no doubt that gardens evidence an impossible urge to create, express, fashion, and beautify and that self-expression is a basic human urge; yet when one looks at the photographs of the garden created by the homeless, it strikes one that , for all their diversity of styles, these gardens speak of various other fundamental urges, beyond that of decoration and creative expression.

In plays，novels and narrative poems, characters speak as constructs created by the author, not necessarily as mouthpieces for the author’s own thoughts.

But this seems to be the irony of office speak: Everyone makes fun of it, but managers love it, companies depend on it, and regular people willingly absorb it.

In a workplace that's fundamentally indifferent to your life and its meaning, office speak can help you figure out how you relate to your work—and how your work defines who you are.

Parents, he says, can get a lot out of using their devices to speak to a friend or get some work out of the way.