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Adam Lambert, the openly gay American Idol runner-up who went on from the show to take over the world, was honored last night at the GLAAD Media Awards for his efforts for the LGBT community.
Above is his acceptance speech (*some discretion is recommended for one instance of language that might offend) and fans sho... |
13 May 2013
03:33 GMT |
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Conan O’Brien was the headliner and host of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner over the weekend, held at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. His full opening speech is above.
Coco got off to a rather shaky start and perhaps the fact that he came in after President Obama – who delivered a... |
29 April 2013
03:56 GMT |
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Over the weekend, President Barack Obama kicked off the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., with “Second term, baby!.” But what followed next was even more hilarious.
Check out the video above to see his speech in full. Even if you’re not into pol... |
29 April 2013
03:02 GMT |
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A Korean native dismisses gun availability as the cause behind an increase in the number of mass shootings in the US, in a public hearing on gun control.
The accompanying video includes his passionate speech against stricter gun regulations, as he supports the right to bear weapons.
According to The Blaze, Henson O... |
31 January 2013
04:34 GMT |
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Screen icon Dick Van Dyke was the recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the SAG Awards last night. Above is his acceptance speech. Bouncing up on the stage to accept the award from Alec Baldwin (to whom he mistakenly referred as Tony Bennett), the 87-year-old star looked more energetic and up... |
28 January 2013
05:51 GMT |
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Claire Danes won Best Female Actor in a Drama Series for “Homeland” at last night’s SAG Awards 2013 and, by her somehow rambling (but nonetheless endearing) speech, she wasn’t really expecting to win.
Check out the video above for her speech in full.
Claire made it a point to say that her ... |
28 January 2013
05:09 GMT |
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Jennifer Lawrence has just skipped ahead of the competition in the Oscars race by taking home the award for Best Female Actor in a Leading Role at last night’s SAG Awards 2013.
Above is a video of her acceptance speech.
A visibly emotional Jennifer walked up to the stage and recalled how she’d gotten ... |
28 January 2013
03:08 GMT |
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High school senior Jacob Rudolph is filmed accepting an award from his class, and it is a moment that he will remember, as it is also the time he came out as LGBT.
Advocate mentions that Rudolph was getting the Best Actor award. He starts off his speech by poking fun of the fact that his love for acting might be a b... |
24 January 2013
09:51 GMT |
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During the Inauguration ceremony that took place in Washington D.C, in his second Inaugural Address, President Barack Obama touched on sensitive topics like health care, economy, gun control, climate change and gay rights.
See his speech in full above.
This was the first time a US President used the term “g... |
22 January 2013
05:24 GMT |
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The public Inauguration doesn’t kick off until several hours from now but, officially, Barack Obama has started his second term as President of the United States.
Above is a video of him being sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.
The ceremony was held in the Blue Room of the White House on Sunday, in ... |
21 January 2013
08:27 GMT |
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The Golden Globes 2013 saw Jodie Foster honored with the Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement. Her acceptance speech, which doubled as a touching coming out speech, is above. Speculation about Foster’s orientation has been around for years but, until last night, the star always insisted it was up t... |
13 January 2013
23:43 GMT |
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IBM's Watson is probably the best-known supercomputer in the world, from having won Jeopardy against the top human contestant, but that wasn't enough for the IBM researchers who created him.
Having felt that Jeopardy participation built a solid enough base for understanding and interpreting sounds, voices... |
11 January 2013
09:27 GMT |
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President Barack Obama traveled to Newtown, Connecticut over the weekend to offer whatever assistance he could to the families of the victims of the horrendous school attack. Above is his emotional speech in full.
Besides expressing his grief over the tragedy as a parent, Obama also spoke about the need to take act... |
17 December 2012
03:49 GMT |
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A 20-year-old man opened fire in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, killing 20 children, 6 adults and then himself. As President Barack Obama put it in his emotional speech on the shooting, “our hearts are broken today.”
The President’s entire speech is embedded above.
Obama put politic... |
15 December 2012
00:34 GMT |
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In everything in life, there’s winners and then there’s... people who don’t win. The moment it became clear that Barack Obama had won the Presidential Elections and would be back for a second run, Mitt Romney held his concession speech.
Check it out in full above.
Comparatively shorter than Obam... |
7 November 2012
09:52 GMT |
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Barack Obama is President of the United States for another 4 years. Official figures have been released and, with them, he gave his highly anticipated victory speech.
Check it out in full above.
As we also noted a couple of hours ago, earlier on, Obama had said that he had prepared 2 different speeches, just in c... |
7 November 2012
02:46 GMT |
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Democrat Tammy Baldwin has become the first openly gay senator in the history of the US and, at the same time, the first female senator from Wisconsin. History has just been written.
Her speech is in its entirety below.
Baldwin, who is openly gay, knows that her win is a historical one for the two reasons mention... |
7 November 2012
02:29 GMT |
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The 64th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards opened with a brilliant monolog from host Jimmy Kimmel, in which he basically reminded everyone why they had gathered at the Nokia Theater in LA: to feel good about themselves. Check out the video above to see the opening speech in full. Not only did Kimmel get a bit politica... |
24 September 2012
02:33 GMT |
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Nuance Communications, Inc has announced that its introductory voice recognition app for Mac OS X Lion, Dragon Express has debuted in seven new countries. The app also adds three new languages to its portfolio. Dragon Express is a fast, hands-free solution that allows you to convert speech into text. It’s used... |
31 May 2012
10:09 GMT |
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For individuals who have congenital or acquired speech impairments, communicating with those around them can be very tough. Now, a team of experts believes it's on the right track towards developing a solution that will enable these people to talk to others just like before.
A new system being developed at the... |
1 February 2012
04:15 GMT |
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Apple’s latest iOS version made quite a splash when launched last fall, due to a new service included into the mix, capable of offering users the possibility to actively interact with their devices via speech, namely Siri. While owners of devices powered by other mobile OSes out there are looking at Siri wit... |
3 January 2012
16:11 GMT |
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In a new study, investigators from the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France, managed to determine the specific brain abnormality that underlies the development of dyslexia. The team learned that auditory signal processing pathways display a glitch that is the most likely cause of the condition. The findings are... |
23 December 2011
03:54 GMT |
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Neelie Kroes, vice-president of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, stated at the Forum d'Avignon that the fight against piracy is not at all effective, large sums of money being spent in vain.
According to TorrentFreak, Kroes doubts that the current copyright system is the best way of p... |
21 November 2011
10:28 GMT |
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Steve Jobs once famously said that "Death ... clears out the old to make way for the new,” and that it was "Life’s change agent." But that’s not all he said during that famous speech at Stanford University in 2005. He also sparked an exciting new prospect into the “hearts” of the graduat... |
6 October 2011
09:01 GMT |
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One of the most important things that allows us to recognize voices is noticing how each person pronounces words in a subtly-different way. Researchers have now determined that people who suffer from dyslexia do not have this ability, making it harder for them to recognize other voices.This is what experts refer to a... |
29 July 2011
06:05 GMT |
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Scientists have recently determined that toddlers who learn to speak later than usual are not necessarily at higher risk of suffering from behavioral or emotional problems than their peers who learn how to speak at a younger age. Previous studies indicated that late speakers tended to suffer from such disorders later... |
4 July 2011
09:16 GMT |
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For the first time ever, people implanted with a new device were capable to moving a cursor on a computer screen by the power of words and thought alone. The difference from other brain-computer interfaces (BCI) is that the new approach uses sounds exclusively to perform the link.As such, one could argue that the peo... |
8 April 2011
08:25 GMT |
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At the Oscars 2011 last night, actress Natalie Portman was honored by the Academy with the Best Actress statuette for her part as a ballerina in “Black Swan.” Below is a video of her acceptance speech. The actress, who is now pregnant with her first child, took to the stage to receive the Oscar from Jeff ... |
28 February 2011
05:17 GMT |
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A team of experts has produced a new mathematical model to explain how vocal folds produce sounds and speech. This may help other researchers develop better prosthetic devices for people who find it difficult to speak, or who have problems doing so on account of disorders affecting their larynx. Most people take voca... |
22 November 2010
03:24 GMT |
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Novel human and animal studies released yesterday at Neuroscience 2010, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, reveal the complex brain wiring used in the communication process.The research gives insight into the way that the brain processes and produces sounds, language and accents, but also into the br... |
17 November 2010
06:37 GMT |
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Parents of pre-school children that have poorly developed speech and language skills shouldn't worry too much, because the pre-school language intervention program, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, which took place in 15 institutions in Yorkshire, was a major success.Under 'The Language 4 Reading' pr... |
2 November 2010
11:40 GMT |
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The easiest way to find out whether you and your current partner are a match made in heaven is to listen to the way he or she speaks – if the speech pattern and the language match yours, you’re set.A new study authored by James Pennebaker and cited by the Daily Mail reveals that couples that are perfect m... |
5 October 2010
16:11 GMT |
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Experts investigating the behavior of babies have recently demonstrated that infants love a beat. According to the new research, small children tend to get up and dance, bouncing up and down every time they hear rhythms, but this does not happen when they hear speech. The results of the study could mean that infants ... |
16 March 2010
05:26 GMT |
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Vlingo Corporation has announced the release of its updated voice-focused application, Vlingo. The application provides users with the ability to send email and text messages simply by speaking into their iPhone, while the new version builds on these powerful features, adding new capabilities. Vlingo delivers up to ... |
4 March 2010
03:44 GMT |
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Are you a big fan of audiobooks and podcasts? Have you ever thought of producing one all by yourself? Or do you simply enjoy listening to a warm voice reading you stories before going to bed at night, or helping you discover how certain words should be pronounced in a foreign language? Well, I am not talking about y... |
28 February 2010
12:31 GMT |
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Children who play a musical instrument are apparently able to distinguish sounds much better in a noisy environment, and also tend to be better at detecting the subtle changes in the tone of a person they are conversing with. Researchers believe that this increased ability comes from the fact that music can enhance t... |
22 February 2010
15:01 GMT |
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A new investigation has demonstrated that singing may be helping stroke patients recover some use of their brain when it comes to communicating with others. Experts say that the speech center of the human brain is separate from the area dealing with singing, and that, therefore, patients who lost the former can boost... |
22 February 2010
04:22 GMT |
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Nuance Communications Inc. acquired MacSpeech, the leading provider of speech-recognition solutions for Mac OS X and Macintosh computers, the company said in a report today. Nuance will thus be able extend the Dragon NaturallySpeaking family of products to what it calls “a growing community of Mac users” ... |
16 February 2010
10:36 GMT |
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Over the past century or so, scientists have been wondering how it is that our emotions and thoughts can modify our expressions. This may seem natural, and indeed it is, but the mechanism behind this ability, or drawback as some call it, is still a mystery. A new investigation has recently determined that changing fa... |
1 February 2010
06:58 GMT |
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In spite of the great variation of cultures and populations on the planet, there are some types of non-verbal communications that researchers believe transcend all barriers. They argue that, even if you visit the most primitive tribe in the deepest jungle of the world, the people there will understand if you sob, yel... |
26 January 2010
05:10 GMT |
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Mariah Carey finally got the acceptance and praise she’s been looking for ever since she first decided to have a go with acting, when her part in “Precious” was awarded with the Breakthrough Artist at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. At this year’s People’s Choice Awards, th... |
8 January 2010
04:02 GMT |
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Improving communication between human beings is one of the main goals in science today, mostly because such an ability would allow us to avoid countless conflicts. Research in this area has been ongoing for many years, and considerable progress has been made until now. Just recently, a group of specialists managed to... |
6 January 2010
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English researchers in London have recently determined in a new study that our motor systems, which govern movements, tend to activate themselves automatically when we hear speech. They say that these newly found data could help experts understand and fight against a large number of speech difficulties in the near fu... |
23 December 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Scientists at the Duke University believe they may have found the answer to why musical perception is associated with various moods and emotions, and vice-versa, something that music producers have known for a long time. Any musician knows that minor chords sound sad and depressing, whereas major ones sound happy and... |
3 December 2009
05:47 GMT |
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A large number of people who cannot talk have ended up in their current situation on account of accidents and infections, which have affected their larynx and vocal folds. Now, researchers in South Africa are working on a new medical device, which could see many of these individuals regaining their ability to speak, ... |
3 December 2009
03:42 GMT |
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Over millions of years, our species has developed an increasingly complex vocal apparatus, which has now placed us at the top, in terms of speech performance. While most higher mammals have the ability to produce sounds, such as roars and pearls, using their vocal chords, none of them is capable of generating articul... |
1 December 2009
18:01 GMT |
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In a recent set of studies, investigators have finally found one of the most important genes in our bodies, the one that determines our ability to formulate and understand speech. The gene, called FOXP2, can be found in all humans, but lacks in chimpanzees, other primates and big apes. It is a transcription factor, w... |
12 November 2009
04:58 GMT |
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In many European countries, adding subtitles in a foreign movie in the native tongue of their residents is a standard norm. Experts who devised this system many years ago said that this would help the masses get to know a second language, by creating associations between the words and the text. But a new investigatio... |
11 November 2009
08:37 GMT |
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Words and gesture may seem to be two distinct sets of communication tools, and someone would expect that they are processed in different parts of the brain. However, this does not seem to be the case, as indicated by a new scientific study funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders... |
10 November 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Rihanna may be only 21 but, as far as accomplishments go, she has more under her belt than many other female stars twice her age. Her music gets constant airplay and whatever she touches instantly turns to gold. However, what’s more important, Rihanna is also a good role model for young girls and women all over... |
10 November 2009
09:02 GMT |
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