(a.) Uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a spoken narrative; the spoken word.
(a.) Characterized by a certain manner or style in speaking; -- often in composition; as, a pleasant-spoken man.
Example Sentences:
(1) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
(2) Somewhat more children of both Head Start and the nursery school showed semantic mastery based on both heard and spoken identification for positions based on body-object relations (in, on, and under) than for those based on object-object relations (in fromt of, between, and in back of).
(3) Groups were similar with respect to age, sex, school experience, family income, housing, primary language spoken, and nonverbal intelligence.
(4) Sharif Mobley, 30, whose lawyers consider him to be disappeared, managed to call his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday, the first time they had spoken since February and a rare independent proof he is alive since a brief phone call with his mother in July.
(5) I've spoken to her on the phone and seen her a couple of times, but I've not noticed any change in Georgina.
(6) Now US officials, who have spoken to Reuters on condition of anonymity, say the roundabout way the commission's emails were obtained strongly suggests the intrusion originated in China , possibly by amateurs, and not from India's spy service.
(7) The first paper of this series (Picheny, Durlach, & Braida, 1985) presented evidence that there are substantial intelligibility differences for hearing-impaired listeners between nonsense sentences spoken in a conversational manner and spoken with the effort to produce clear speech.
(8) The four are the spoken language, the written language, the printing press and the electronic computer.
(9) The UNHCR said in a statement: “International law prescribes that no individual can be returned involuntarily to a country in which he or she has a well-founded fear of persecution.” The Tamil Refugee Council said it had spoken with a relative of one of the asylum seekers on board the vessel from India.
(10) Jenny Jones, a Green party member of the London Assembly who has campaigned to make cycling safer, said she had spoken to the deputy head of the Met's traffic unit to express her worries about the operation.
(11) But Clegg also says he is not going to be cowed into taking Cameron's vow of silence about Farage's assertion that he finds Britain unrecognisable and is uncomfortable at the lack of English spoken on commuter trains out of Charing Cross.
(12) He has spoken at least twice by telephone to his family and received two foreign delegations.
(13) The media mogul said he had spoken "very carefully under oath" at the Leveson inquiry on Wednesday, when he had said that Brown had pledged to "declare war" on his company in a phone call made at around the time the Sun came out in support of the Conservative party, on 30 September of that year.
(14) The linguistic performances of 15 noninstitutionalized and 15 institutionalized retarded children were compared on usage of grammatical categories and structure of spoken language (Length--Complexity Index) and for underlying subskills (Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities).
(15) Other defendants had earlier spoken of a more difficult time in prison, with one claiming to journalists from inside the defendants' cage that they had almost all been tortured.
(16) They were tested both in silence and against a background of continuous spoken Arabic presented at 75 dB(A).
(17) The contract envisaged freeing up staff time by moving to a ‘self-service’ model where, for example, residents send their own faxes and book their own visits.” The report also discloses that the kiosks are being used by detainees to order their food and can be used in the languages most commonly spoken at Yarl’s Wood.
(18) I have always spoken to the police and had interesting discussions with them.
(19) Since joining, he has spoken at a conference, learnt how to make an animated film and plans to start his own peer-support group.
(20) The Observer of the mid-1950s resembled nothing so much as a giant seminar conducted by the soft-spoken and diffident, yet steely, figure of David Astor.
Unvoiced
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) No differences were found in error percentages of voiced and unvoiced phonemes.
(2) The findings lend support to the point-of-view that listeners may be able to narrow the choice of the vowel in an unvoiced-stop-consonant CV to a small number of alternatives prior to the beginning of voicing.
(3) The vibrators were driven at 250 Hz during voiced segments, and by random noise during unvoiced segments.
(4) Immediately following word-learning experiments, subjects were asked to place 16 CVs into five phonemic categories (voiced & unvoiced stops, voiced & unvoiced fricatives, approximants).
(5) 3) In "on-off phonation test", ATAXICs showed prolonged unvoiced intervals, while SPASTICs did prolonged voiced intervals.
(6) At speech-to-noise ratios between -3 and 6 dB, many hearing-impaired listeners have difficulty in understanding speech, but spectrograms reveal that the formant peaks of voiced speech and some of the spectral peaks associated with unvoiced speech stand out against the background noise.
(7) Results showed that 6 of the 8 children generalized both the voiced and unvoiced target sounds to 50% or more of the target sound probe items.
(8) The spectral transition is more crucial than unvoiced and buzz bar periods for consonant (syllable) perception, although the latter features are of some perceptual importance.
(9) The signals were six broadband noises whose spectral shapes were modeled after the spectra of unvoiced fricative and plosive consonants.
(10) The well-known speech production model is considered, where the speech signal is modeled as the output of an all-pole filter driven either by some white noise sequence (unvoiced speech) or by the sum of a periodic excitation and a noise sequence (voiced speech).
(11) However, if bandwidth compression is applied to the unvoiced portions of speech only, the above limitations can be overcome (1).
(12) The governing equations are derived for a model based on this mechanism, and data on unvoiced trills are used to help set parameters for a numerical simulation of the model.
(13) Oscillographic as well as photographic records of the speech acoustic signal were obtained to analyse interval for a syllable, which consisted of voiced and unvoiced intervals, and peak-value of voiced interval.
(14) Approximate maximum-likelihood (ML) estimation algorithms for the unvoiced case are well known.
(15) In this paper "coarse" acoustic coefficients (autocorrelation, linear prediction, cepstrum, and reflection) were used to form test and reference templates for vowels, voiced fricatives, and unvoiced fricatives.
(16) 90, 1828-1840 (1991)] various feature vectors and distance measures were examined to determine their appropriateness for recognizing a speaker's gender from vowels, unvoiced fricatives, and voiced fricatives.
(17) Applications of the EGG to speech processing are outlined, including real-time detection of voicing, voiced and unvoiced speech segments, and silence intervals.
(18) Two sentence types were voiced throughout, and two contained unvoiced consonants.
(19) Results suggested that hypotonic laryngeal muscles in ATAXICs might result in prolongation of unvoiced interval, but that prolonged voiced interval related to biased hypertonus of laryngeal adductor.