Freedom of speech (19035 bytes)
1: ...ies, pictures, songs, dances, and all other forms of expressive [[communication]].
3: ...efamation]], publishing secrets regarding matters of state security, etc.
5: ... is typically regarded as a [[civil liberty]], or freedom from government action.
7: == Theories of free speech ==
11: ...rantees for speech and press are not the preserve of political expression or comment upon public affai...

Freedom of speech in the United States (6628 bytes)
1: [[Image:Save Freedom of Speech.png|200px|thumb|right| ]]
2: ...r]] and some [[content-neutral]] laws that affect speech.
4: ...e protected speech by encouraging the development of clear bright-line rules.
12: ...publication was allowed without the accompaniment of a government-granted license.
14: ...breaking, forever impossible in the United States of America."

Speech (3680 bytes)
1: '''Speech''':
3: *[[Conversation]] (infomal speech by more than one person on a topic),
5: *the [[academic discipline]] of [[Communication studies|communications]].
6: ....) the act of producing [[voice]] through the use of the [[vocal cords]] or other means, such as [[sig...
8: In more [[colloquial]] terms, speech can be described in several different ways:

Symbolic speech (375 bytes)
1: ...protected by law in the US, some acts of symbolic speech, such as buring a draft card, are not constitutio...

Speech synthesis (20101 bytes)
1: ...entation]]s like [[phonetic transcription]]s into speech.
3: == Overview of speech synthesis technology ==
4: ...speech of a real person. The intelligibility of a speech synthesizer refers to how easily the output can b...
6: ...the ''symbolic linguistic representation'' output of the front end.
8: ...erts it into actual sound output. The back end is often referred to as the '''synthesizer'''. The diff...

Speech act (2132 bytes)
3: ... '''speech act''' is an action performed by means of language, such as describing something (''"It is ...
5: ...r, the first systematic and comprehensive work on speech acts had already been done long before by the [[p...
7: ...speech acts. An interesting type of illocutionary speech acts are [[performative utterance|performative]]s...
8: ...h acts cause actions that are not the same as the speech.
10: ...he discipline of [[pragmatics]], which forms part of [[linguistics]].

Part of speech (4403 bytes)
1: ...[[transformational-generative grammar]], parts of speech are known as '''lexical categories'''. There are ...
3: Parts of speech are often a tricky subject when dealing with languages o...
4: ...parts of speech must be made within the framework of a given language, and should not be carried over ...
6: ...nd used in dictionaries, there are eight parts of speech: [[noun]], [[verb]], [[adjective]], [[adverb]], [...
8: Common ways of delimiting words by function include:

Speech organ (308 bytes)
1: ... [[alveolar ridge]], [[hard palate]], [[velum]] (soft palate), [[uvula]] and [[glottis]].

Speech therapy (1398 bytes)
1: ...e or repetitive practice and drilling, to the use of audio-visual aids.
3: ... syndrome]] or [[speech disorder]]s (e.g. [[lisp (speech)|lisps]], [[stammer]]s), and with the [[deaf]] an...
5: ...so: [[therapy]], [[chorditis]], [[logopedics]], [[speech pathology]], [[Phoniatrics]], [[oral myology]], [...

Commencement speech (273 bytes)
1: ...ment speech''' or '''commencement address''' is a speech given to graduating students, generally at a [[un...

Hate speech (13995 bytes)
1: ...ch''' is a [[controversy|controversial]] term for speech intended to degrade, intimidate, or incite violen...
4: ...er the First Amendment is sometimes labeled "hate speech" by the critiqued.
7: ..., but that it can sanction the harmful effects of speech through laws against [[slander]] and [[libel]].
9: ...is subtly more restrictive, guaranteeing 'freedom of voicing ones opinion' and elsewhere restricts its...
11: ... between legitimate controversial speech and hate speech in such a way which is just to those with controv...

Speech processing (1676 bytes)
1: ...h]] [[signal|signals]] and the processing methods of these signals.
3: ...speech processing can be seen as the intersection of [[digital signal processing]] and [[natural langu...
5: Speech processing can be divided in the following catego...
7: ... with analysis of the [[linguistic]] content of a speech signal.
8: ...], where the aim is to recognise the [[identity]] of the speaker.

Speech encoding (2961 bytes)
1: ...decs]] that use [[audio signal processing]] and [[speech processing]] techniques.
3: The two most important applications using speech coding are [[mobile phone]]s and [[internet phone...
5: ...uman auditory system. For example, in narrow-band speech coding, only information in the frequency band 40...
7: ...elligibility of speech, with a constrained amount of transmitted data.
9: ... should be emphasised that the intelligibility of speech includes, besides the actual literal content, als...

Whistled speech (1683 bytes)
3: '''Whistled speech''' is communication by [[whistling]].
5: Various instances of whistled speech are known around the world.
6: ...led messages are typically short and standard and often have to be repeated.
8: ...-2 [[kilometer|km]] but up to 5 km) than ordinary speech.
9: These speeches are usually found in areas with low population ...

Speech recognition (5919 bytes)
1: ....g. for transcription or as an alternative method of interacting with a computer.
7: ...ain" the system to recognise their own particular speech patterns or not,
9: ...inuous speech or requires users to break up their speech into discrete words,
10: *whether the system is intended for clear speech material, or is designed to operate on distorted ...
11: ...r at most hundreds of words), or large (thousands of words).

Cued speech (975 bytes)
1: ...serve as a visual mode for spoken languages, Cued Speech allows deaf people to acquire English (or other l...
5: ...ttp://www.cuedlanguage.org/ Cued Language Network of America]
7: : [http://www.cuedspeech.com/ Cued Speech Discovery]
10: : [http://www.cuedspeech.info/ Cued Speech Info]
11: : [http://www.cafepress.com/cuedspeech.html/ Cued Speech Products]

Speech disorder (1229 bytes)
1: ...y of these types of disorders can be treated by [[speech therapy]], but others require medical attention b...
3: ...ce. [[Stuttering]] is also quite common, about 7% of the population suffer from it at some point in li...
7: * [[speech processing]]
8: * [[List of voice disorders]]
10: * [[Esophageal speech]]

Speech from the Throne (2395 bytes)
1: ...trix]] of [[The Netherlands]] reads her country's Speech from the Throne]]
3: ...een of Canada|Queen Elizabeth II]] reads Canada's Speech from the Throne in 1977]]
5: ... rather by the majority party in (the lower house of) parliament.
7: ...e Australian states]] or [[Lieutenant Governor]]s of the Canadian provinces, who represent the soverei...
9: ... Netherlands]] and [[Japan]], have similar throne speech ceremonies as well.

Black Speech (2597 bytes)
1: :''The term '''Black Speech''' can also refer to [[African-American Vernacula...
3: ...ird Age]]. The only example given of "pure" Black Speech is the inscription upon the [[One Ring]]:
13: ...o lines from the end of a verse about the [[Rings of Power]].
15: ...ish dialects had adopted words from it. The Black Speech was at least in part based on [[Valarin]].
17: ... writing in it. The result is a random collection of words that are hard to actually use in day-to-day...

Wasteland Speech (2610 bytes)
1: {{This article is about|a speech given by FCC chairman Newton Minow. ''[[Wasteland...
3: ...an [[Newton Minow]] gave his famous '''"Wasteland Speech"''':
7: ...ur eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast w...
9: ... counted as one of the 100 best American speeches of the [[20th century]] by several authorities.
11: ...and public television. But I think that the level of stuff thrown at kids, especially, has gone down."

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