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Topic: speech
Definition:

  • the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience
  • "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets" (language) communication by word of mouth
  • "his speech was garbled"
  • "he uttered harsh language"
  • "he recorded the spoken language of the streets" something spoken
  • "he could hear them uttering merry speeches" the exchange of spoken words
  • "they were perfectly comfortable together without speech" your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
  • "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"
  • "her speech was barren of southernisms"
  • "I detected a slight accent in his speech" a lengthy rebuke
  • "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"
  • "the teacher gave him a talking to" words making up the dialogue of a play
  • "the actor forgot his speech" the mental faculty or power of vocal communication
  • "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"

    Related tag cloud:

  • language
  • voice
  • communication
  • speaking
  • training
  • therapy
  • hearing
  • speak
  • public speaking
  • speeches
  • education
  • autism
  • free
  • children
  • speaker
  • voice training
  • presentation
  • deaf
  • occupational
  • stuttering
  • speech therapy
    • Resources:

    Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
    Non-profit, non-partisan organization, founded by Mitch Kapor and John Perry Barlow, working to protect fundamental civil liberties, including privacy and freedom of expression, in the arena of computers and the Internet.
    http://www.eff.org/

    The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
    ASHA is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 96,000 audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists. This site is a resource for ASHA members, persons interested in information about communication disorders, and for those wanting career and membership information.
    http://www.asha.org/

    Free Speech Internet Television
    Massive Archive of Alternative video which can be watched on the Net.
    http://www.freespeech.org/

    UCSC - Perceptual Science Laboratory
    University of California at Santa Cruz Perceptual Science Laboratory site is chock full of fascinating ideas and projects on images, perception, color.
    http://mambo.ucsc.edu/

    Gifts of Speech
    Full texts of women's speeches from around the world. Maintained by Sweet Briar College.
    http://gos.sbc.edu/