Speech Analysis Quotes

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

I wonder what my speech would be.

Speechwriting is where the philosophical, ideological and political tensions of the administration get worked out.

I spent three days with Don King, and I interviewed 45 people. I studied his speech, his mannerisms. He invited me to a couple of fights, and I watched him.

I listened to Hillary [Clinton], and I heard the double talk. She's so good at it, and I'm not making this up, that the Communist Chinese have sent their cadres to study her speeches. They say she's the finest propagandist they've ever heard.

Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join together and split up.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things.

Humans are still much better than computers at recognizing speech.

I started by studying Kiswahili to learn the dialect. Then, I studied tapes, documentaries, footage, and audio cassettes of Idi Amin's speeches. And I met with his brothers, his sisters, his ministers, his generals' all kinds of people, in order to try to understand him.

You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.

Kennedy had a much better speech writer than I do.

I think, you know, we always tell candidates, show, don't tell, what you're all about. I think Hillary Clinton's speech was an important speech that people are going to look at and they're going to see not just the attacks on Donald Trump, but also her admission that maybe she'd been part of the polarization problem as well and she could do better.

Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.

In his speech last night, John Kerry said this was the beginning of the end of the Bush administration. I agree. Sure, it may take another five years, but this is it.

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.

There are a number of things that came out of Donald Trump so-called policy speech at Gettysburg that most of the reporters were saying were real positive things.

The best way to study about speech writing is to read great speeches.

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

There needs to be an app that edits what I say versus what I want to say.

We are well aware that he spent many hours recently tape recording various messages... we need to do a little more analysis of what was actually said to see if that indeed was in fact Saddam Hussein.

We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.

I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.