Speech

  • (noun): The act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience.
    Synonyms: address
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on speech:

Gnome Speech
... The GNOME Speech API allows developers to incorporate speech technology into user interfaces for their GNOME applications ... interface to support command and control recognizers, dictation systems and speech synthesizers ... This will then be GNOME Speech v1.0 ...
Freedom Of Speech In The United States
... Freedom of speech in the United States is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and by many state constitutions and state and federal laws ... the Supreme Court of the United States has recognized several categories of speech that are excluded from the freedom of speech, and it has recognized that ... the Miller test for obscenity, child pornography laws, speech that incites imminent lawless action, and regulation of commercial speech such as advertising ...
Northern England - Definitions - Linguistically
... As speech has changed, there is little consensus on what defines a "Northern" accent or dialect ... people in northern England omit certain sounds from sentences in casual speech, such as saying "I'm goin' t'shops" or "I'm going the shops" as opposed to "I'm ... This much-lampooned speech habit is often misunderstood or misrepresented ...
Eliza Manningham-Buller, Baroness Manningham-Buller - Public Statements - Speech On MI5 After The September 11 Attacks
... On 9 November 2006, Manningham-Buller gave a speech to the Mile End Group at Queen Mary, University of London as a guest of Professor Peter Hennessy ... This speech came three days after Dhiren Barot was sentenced to 40 years for his part in the 2004 Financial buildings plot in which he had a plan to build a radiological dirty bomb that ...
Tim Johnson (U.S. Senator) - Health
... lengthy regimen of physical, occupational, and speech therapy to gain strength and mobility and restore his severely affected speech ... His speech, although much improved, continues to be affected by his stroke ...

More definitions of "speech":

  • (noun): Something spoken.
    Example: "He could hear them uttering merry speeches"
  • (noun): The mental faculty or power of vocal communication.
    Synonyms: language
  • (noun): The exchange of spoken words.
    Example: "They were perfectly comfortable together without speech"
  • (noun): Words making up the dialogue of a play.
    Example: "The actor forgot his speech"
    Synonyms: actor's line, words
  • (noun): Your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally.
    Example: "Her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"
    Synonyms: manner of speaking, delivery

Famous quotes related to speech:

    Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    So hills and valleys into singing break;
    And though poor stones have neither speech nor tongue,
    While active winds and streams both run and speak,
    Yet stones are deep in admiration.
    Thus praise and prayer here beneath the Sun
    Make lesser mornings when the great are done.
    Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)

    Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
    Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want ... everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear ... anywhere in the world.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    Who gives speech to mortals?
    Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 4:11.