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Free Download HSK3 Express – Vocabulary, Sentences, and Speech Mastery
Published 1/2024
Created by Letitia Wu
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 33 Lectures ( 3h 52m ) | Size: 714 MB

Free Download Cicero: Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius By Robert A. Kaster (editor)
2006 | 493 Pages | ISBN: 0199283028 | PDF | 3 MB
This volume contains a new translation of, and commentary on, Cicero’s defense of Publius Sestius against a charge of public violence. Pro Sestio is arguably the most important of Cicero’s political speeches that survive from the nearly two decades separating the Speeches against Catiline and the Second Philippic. Its account of recent history provides any student of Rome with a fascinating way into the period; its depiction of public meetings, demonstrations, and violence are highly pertinent to the current debate on the place of "the crowd in Rome in the late Republic"; the speech is also among the best introductions we have to traditional Republican values and ethics in action.

Free Download Costin-Valentin Oancea, "Gender-Related Variation in the Speech of English and Romanian Adolescents"
English | ISBN: 1443897329 | 2016 | 220 pages | PDF | 1416 KB
This book represents a synchronic sociolinguistic analysis of gender-related variation in the speech of English and Romanian adolescents. It is motivated by the belief that variation is a characteristic of natural language, and that a comprehensive understanding of language must include a grasp of the nature and function of variation. The book analyses sociolinguistic features of adolescent speech that occur in natural, spontaneous, everyday speech, thus representing a major contribution to the study of language in its social context.

Free Download Danielle E. Price, "Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature "
English | ISBN: 1032038365 | 2023 | 200 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1244 KB + 9 MB
Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary question― Who speaks?― by examining a variety of represented silences. These include children who do not speak, do not yet speak effectively, or speak on behalf of others. A rich and unexamined literary archive explores the problematics of children who are literally silent or metaphorically so because they cannot communicate effectively with adults or peers. This project centers children’s literature in the question of voice by considering disability, gender, race, and ecocriticism. Children’s literature rests on a paradox at the root of its own genre: it is produced by an adult author writing to a constructed idea of what children should be. By reading a range of contemporary children’s literature, this book scrutinizes how such texts narrate the child’s journey from communicative alterity to a place of empowered adult speech. Sometimes the child’s verbal enclosure enables privacy and resistance. At other times, silence is coerced or imposed or arises from bodily impairment. Children may act as intermediaries, speaking on behalf of species that cannot. Recently, we have seen children exercise their voices on the world stage and as authors. In all cases, the texts analyzed here reveal speech as a minefield to be traversed. Children who talk too much, too little, or with insufficient expertise pose problems to themselves and others. Implicitly and sometimes explicitly, they attempt to hold adults to account― inside and outside the text.

Free Download Danielle E. Price, "Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature "
English | ISBN: 1032038365 | 2023 | 200 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1244 KB + 9 MB
Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary question― Who speaks?― by examining a variety of represented silences. These include children who do not speak, do not yet speak effectively, or speak on behalf of others. A rich and unexamined literary archive explores the problematics of children who are literally silent or metaphorically so because they cannot communicate effectively with adults or peers. This project centers children’s literature in the question of voice by considering disability, gender, race, and ecocriticism. Children’s literature rests on a paradox at the root of its own genre: it is produced by an adult author writing to a constructed idea of what children should be. By reading a range of contemporary children’s literature, this book scrutinizes how such texts narrate the child’s journey from communicative alterity to a place of empowered adult speech. Sometimes the child’s verbal enclosure enables privacy and resistance. At other times, silence is coerced or imposed or arises from bodily impairment. Children may act as intermediaries, speaking on behalf of species that cannot. Recently, we have seen children exercise their voices on the world stage and as authors. In all cases, the texts analyzed here reveal speech as a minefield to be traversed. Children who talk too much, too little, or with insufficient expertise pose problems to themselves and others. Implicitly and sometimes explicitly, they attempt to hold adults to account― inside and outside the text.

Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation

Free Download Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation by Wolfgang Wahlster
English | PDF | 2000 | 676 Pages | ISBN : 3540677836 | 62.4 MB

Free Download Neural Text-to-Speech Synthesis (Artificial Intelligence: Foundations, Theory, and Algorithms) by Xu Tan
English | May 30, 2023 | ISBN: 9819908264 | 226 pages | MOBI | 7.94 Mb
Text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize intelligible and natural speech based on the given text. It is a hot topic in language, speech, and machine learning research and has broad applications in industry. This book introduces neural network-based TTS in the era of deep learning, aiming to provide a good understanding of neural TTS, current research and applications, and the future research trend.

Free Download Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President by Harold Holzer, Mark Bramhall, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
English | 2011 | ISBN: B004ZBR99U | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 43m | 319 Mb
Lincoln at Cooper Union explores Lincoln’s most influential and widely reported pre-presidential address-an extraordinary appeal by the Western politician to the Eastern elite that propelled him toward the Republican nomination for president. Delivered in New York in February 1860, the Cooper Union speech dispelled doubts about Lincoln’s suitability for the presidency and reassured conservatives of his moderation while reaffirming his opposition to slavery to Republican progressives.
Award-winning Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer places Lincoln and his speech in the context of the times-an era of racism, politicized journalism, and public oratory as entertainment-and shows how the candidate framed the speech as an opportunity to continue his famous "debates" with his archrival, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, on the question of slavery.
Holzer describes the enormous risk Lincoln took by appearing in New York, where he exposed himself to the country’s most critical audience and took on Republican Senator William Henry Seward of New York, the front-runner, in his own backyard. Then he recounts a brilliant and innovative public-relations campaign, as Lincoln took the speech "on the road" in his successful quest for the presidency.

Free Download Ellen O’Gorman, "Tacitus’ History of Politically Effective Speech: Truth to Power"
English | ISBN: 1350095494 | 2020 | 232 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This study examines how Tacitus’ representation of speech determines the roles of speakers within the political sphere, and explores the possibility of politically effective speech in the principate. It argues against the traditional scholarly view that Tacitus refuses to offer a positive view of senatorial power in the principate: while senators did experience limitations and changes to what they could achieve in public life, they could aim to create a dimension of political power and efficacy through speeches intended to create and sustain relations which would in turn determine the roles played by both senators or an emperor.

Free Download Michael Donnelly, "Freedom of Speech and the Function of Rhetoric in the United States"
English | ISBN: 1498513557 | 2016 | 120 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book is about Freedom of Speech and public discourse in the United States. Freedom of Speech is a major component of the cultural context in which we live, think, work, and write, generally revered as the foundation of true democracy. But the issue has a great deal more to do with social norms rooted in a web of cultural assumptions about the function of rhetoric in social organization generally, and in a democratic society specifically. The dominant, liberal notion of free speech in the United States, assumed to be self-evidently true, is, in fact, a particular historical and cultural formation, rooted in Enlightenment philosophies and dependent on a collection of false narratives about the founding of the country, the role of speech and media in its development, and the relationship between capitalism and democracy. Most importantly, this notion of freedom of speech relies on a warped sense of the function of rhetoric in democratic social organization. By privileging individual expression, at the expense of democratic deliberation, the liberal notion of free speech functions largely to suppress rather than promote meaningful public discussion and debate, and works to sustain unequal relations of power. The presumed democratization of the public sphere, via the Internet, raises more questions than it answers-who has access and who doesn’t, who commands attention and why, and what sorts of effects such expression actually has. We need to think a great deal more carefully about the values subsumed and ignored in an uncritical attachment to a particular version of the public sphere. This book seeks to illuminate the ways in which cultural framing diminishes the complexity of free speech and sublimates a range of value-choices. A more fully democratic society requires a more critical view of freedom of speech.