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Two men (right, kneeling) hold cue cards to enable a public speech in Japan, 2016. Cue cards were originally used to aid aging actors. One early use was by John Barrymore in the late 1930s. Cue cards did not become widespread until 1949 when Barney McNulty, [3] a CBS page and former military pilot, was asked to write ailing actor Ed Wynn's ...
Cued speech is a visual system of communication used with and among deaf or hard-of-hearing people. It is a phonemic-based system which makes traditionally spoken languages accessible by using a small number of handshapes, known as cues (representing consonants), in different locations near the mouth (representing vowels) to convey spoken language in a visual format.
Using a teleprompter is similar to using cue cards. The screen is in front of, and usually below, the lens of a professional video camera , and the words on the screen are reflected to the eyes of the presenter using a sheet of clear glass or other beam splitter , so that they are read by looking directly at the lens position, but are not ...
Phonocentrism is the belief that sounds and speech are inherently superior to, or more primary than, written language or sign language.Those who espouse phonocentric views maintain that spoken language is the primary and most fundamental method of communication whereas writing is merely a derived method of capturing speech.
Prosodic bootstrapping (also known as phonological bootstrapping) in linguistics refers to the hypothesis that learners of a primary language (L1) use prosodic features such as pitch, tempo, rhythm, amplitude, and other auditory aspects from the speech signal as a cue to identify other properties of grammar, such as syntactic structure. [1]
Richard Curtis, director of beloved 2003 Christmas romcom Love Actually, has revealed that the show’s famous cue card scene could have been very different. The film stars an ensemble cast ...
[2] [7] [108] [109] Speech recognition is possible using cues related to the ENV p, even in situations where the original spectral information and TFS p are highly degraded. [110] Indeed, when the spectrally local TFS p from one sentence is combined with the ENV p from a second sentence, only the words of the second sentence are heard. [111]
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