INFORMATIVE SPEECH OUTLINE Topic: Customer Service Purpose: The purpose of customer services is to enhance the level of customer satisfaction. Specific Purpose: It is my belief that customer service is absolutely what defines bad companies‚ good companies and great companies over the long run. Central Idea: I. Introduction A. Gain and maintain audience attention. Seth Godin’s says‚ “The best measurement of customer service is whether‚ after the interaction‚ the customer would recommend
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Information Sciences 173 (2005) 115–139 www.elsevier.com/locate/ins Investigating spoken Arabic digits in speech recognition setting Yousef Ajami Alotaibi Computer Engineering Department‚ College of Computer and Information Sciences‚ King Saud University‚ P.O. Box 57168‚ Riyadh 11574‚ Saudi Arabia Received 3 October 2003; received in revised form 18 May 2004; accepted 14 July 2004 Abstract Arabic language is a Semitic language that has many differences when compared to European languages such
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Speech analysis In David McCullough’s June 2012 Commencement Speech You Are Not Special‚ he argues that no one is really special. In this speech he is saying that everyone is alike somewhere and somehow. Even though he is seems to be bashing the graduating class‚ he still adds encouraging words. Throughout the whole speech he continuously states that you are not special‚ but then ending the speech with saying‚ “You are not special because everyone is.” I argue that both McCullough and Sierra use
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1. Alliteration The repetition of an initial consonant sound. is a term that describes a literary stylistic device. Alliteration occurs when a series of words in a row (or close to a row) have the same first consonant sound. For example‚ “She sells sea-shells down by the sea-short” or “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers” are both alliterative phrases. In the former‚ all the words start with the “s” sound‚ while in the later‚ the “p’s” take precedence. Aside from tongue twisters‚ alliteration
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SPEECH ANALYSES Elif Şafak is a Turkish novelist and according to her she is a story teller. Indeed‚ what makes her stories best is she has lived in many different countries and more than this she faced with plenty different cultures and she combines those things within a female perspective. In the speech of "The Politics of Fiction" she mentioned about several different stories about storytelling and gin which is a supernatural creature. However the main idea of the speech was to show everyone
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A figure of speech is the use of a word or words diverging from its usual meaning. It can also be a special repetition‚ arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning‚ or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it‚ as in idiom‚ metaphor‚ simile‚ hyperbole‚ or personification. Figures of speech often provide emphasis‚ freshness of expression‚ or clarity. However‚ clarity may also suffer from their use‚ as any figure of speech introduces an ambiguity
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Bibiana Tita October 21‚ 2014 English 124 Outline for Speech to Inform Stroke Introduction Attention Getter: John Tyler‚ Millard Fillmore‚ John Quincy‚ Andrew Johnson‚ Chester Arthur‚ Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford are all formal presidents of the United States who had suffered from Stroke. Credibility: My 29 years old sister suffered from a stroke 2 years ago. I was her primary care taker and majority of information used for her treatment came from Mayo Clinic. Benefits: Early action can
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1.) Primary stuttering behaviors are overt‚ observable signs of a speech fluency breakdown. Some examples are: repeating sounds‚ syllables‚ words or phrases‚ silent blocks and prolongation. Secondary stuttering behaviors are less obvious signs that are developed over time by the stutterer‚ such as; eye blinking‚ lip movement‚ facial tension‚ and avoidance of sounds‚ words‚ people or speaking situations. 2.) Single-syllable-word repetition: I-I-I want to go there. Syllable repetition: He’s a
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SPEECH CRITIQUE This paper will critique the speech Questions of Culture delivered by a graduate of Richmond University in 1996. The speakers name is Sajjid Zahir Chinoy. This critique will focus on the organization‚ content and delivery of the speech. INTRODUCTION Sajjid started the speech in a very interesting way. He used an anecdote to start off the speech; this method was effective because it grasped the attention of the audience. Many of the audience members could relate to Sajjids personal
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Pronunciation of Nouns in Text to Speech systems E.Veera Raghavendra‚ Lavanya Prahallad IIIT Hyderabad‚ India raghavendra@iiit.net‚ lavanyap@cmu.edu At present most speech synthesis systems use raw text as their input which is understandable from a human point of view but problematic for the machines since the process of converting text to speech is very complex; in this paper we discuss the need for having a specific SSML tag for each “mention” (1st occurrence‚ 2nd occurrence) of a proper noun
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