Researchers discovered that the dogs process vocabulary separately to intonation, and actually responded better when praising words were used in combination with praising intonation.
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Dogs heard praise words in praising intonation, praise words in neutral intonation, and also some neutral conjunction words, meaningless to them, in praising and neutral intonations.
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The words were delivered in praising intonation, neutral intonation, along with neutral conjunction words (which were meaningless to the dogs) in both praising and neutral intonations.
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We are also looking for musicianship — so phrasing, intonation.
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They have to give information, represent intonation, timing, pace, inflection.
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Is there any kind of condescension lurking in the intonation?
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Intonation was problematic at times, especially in duets and ensembles.
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Women, especially young women, tend to have more versatile intonation.
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The researchers spoke to the dogs using a variety of words and intonations—some positive words with positive intonation, some gibberish words with positive intonation, and some positive words with no inflection at all.
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And there's not a single Streisandesque intonation in her Fanny Brice.
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Her intonation is basically perfect; she conveys effortlessness at all times.
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Praise activates dogs' reward center only when both words and intonation match.
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A performance of Michael Harrison's just-intonation "The Constellations" rounds out the concert.
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Goldman Sachs uses A.I. to analyze candidates' facial expressions, intonation and word usage.
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New research suggests that dogs respond to meaning and intonation in human voices.
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At this stage the infant is able to identify language through its intonation patterns.
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And now, Amazon has taught Alexa, its voice assistant, to approximate the authoritative intonation.
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There's still that mechanical intonation, but much less so compared to say, Amazon Alexa.
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Mine is Rod Serling's foreboding intonation as he warns me of what's to come.
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It sends micromessages to our conversation partner through length, tone, intonation and facial expressions.
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"The intonation and quality of her voice sounded like home to him," she said.
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Uptalk, as the name suggests, is the rising intonation that makes statements sound like questions?
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They stripped away things like intonation that might otherwise make these lists sound more musical.
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Gesture and intonation would have been crucial to making these symbols understood and agreed upon.
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Meaningful words were processed in the left hemisphere, independent of the intonation used by trainer.
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Linguists call this "prosody," the ability to add correct stress, intonation or sentiment to spoken language.
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Revealingly, the reward center only became active when dogs heard praise words in praising intonation, i.e.
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"Hi everyone in Kettering," says Lohan with the flat intonation of someone in a hostage video.
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They were anthemic, full of hooks, but also very American-sounding in their flow and intonation.
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She sang with perfect intonation, elastic rhythm, an operatic range from thick lows to silky highs.
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During a nearly two-hour set, instrumentalists played slowly unfolding modes over electronic, just-intonation harmonies.
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There were times where they found the right dialogue, but it wasn&apost the correct intonation.
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It then analyzes the audio sample for a number of parameters, including intonation, pitch, speed, and volume.
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"Why would we do that?" he said, in nearly the exact intonation I heard from Patrick later.
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" Vocalist Art Alexakis says, without irony, in the intonation of a cruise ship entertainer, "Look at this!
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And her intonation on Monday seemed more consistently secure than in some past appearances at the Met.
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And they can interact with them on social media, asking questions about intonation, trill technique, rhythmic feel.
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But even as she equivocates, her accent and intonation give you clues to answer the question yourself.
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Because neither the Torah nor the Talmud is punctuated, students learn to add intonation with vocal emphasis.
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He takes advantage of her focused intonation and rhythmic precision to lend even anguished passages structural strength.
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But they understood what was being said from the intonation, the facial expression, the scorn, the venom.
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I listened to the audiobook, which Doctorow himself read aloud in his own understated but perfect intonation.
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"I felt terrible after, like I had gone against everything," he said, his intonation now distinctly French.
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Only the old Taylor would loudly declare, in whispered am-dram intonation, that the old Taylor is dead.
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It could also detect intonation, contexts behind words and non-verbal cues such as the tilt of head.
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Today, says Mr Blanchet, those discriminated against most are from the north, whose intonation is known as "Ch'ti".
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It analyses videos of candidates answering questions and uses AI to judge their verbal skills, intonation and gestures.
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With weed, with stoned characters, you're with them more, and it doesn't have to be some 90s intonation.
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Whether acoustic or electronic in nature, Mr. Young's compositions often employ unconventional "just intonation" tunings and extended durations.
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From this data, it has built a couple of tools to help customer service operations automate intonation understanding.
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Oldman takes on Churchill's affect, vocal intonation, and jowls — while also infusing the role with humor and warmth.
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Using a singsong voice Intonation is also very important to infants' language development in the first months of life.
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She has the kind of shy, tentative intonation that, in any other actress, might suggest meekness — or even weakness.
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As she recounts it in the intonation of a serious book editor, a storyteller's glint surfaces in her eye.
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A wrong intonation would give a lyric like "Daddy, I'm no good at being bad" some very naughty implications.
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The Lovings are people of few words, so Edgerton and Negga make every look, every gesture, every intonation count.
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He uses intonation rather than vocabulary to express his meaning, making his words difficult to understand on the page.
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For the newscaster voice, NTTS produced speech with better intonation that emphasizes the right words in a sentence, Amazon says.
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This has a similar truth among people who more often use facial expressions or varying intonation when face to face.
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Upspeak or uptalk denotes ending a sentence with a rising-pitch intonation, which can sound like you're asking a question.
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Through the use of treatments that include melodic intonation therapy, music helped retrain her brain's pathways to access language again.
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And for those wondering which accent the actor possesses between his two homes, he speaks with a charming British intonation.
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His performance is not an interpretation so much as a direct replica of the whistle-blower's even demeanor and intonation.
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A study found that different parts of a dog's brain process intonation and the meaning of words spoken to them.
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One of the composer's turtles was named 49, after a preferred frequency ratio for his unconventional system of musical intonation.
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An embarrassingly large chunk of my coaching sessions are given over to tweaking the intonation of, say, Debussy's String Quartet.
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"Women are simply more fluid," he said, eyes wide, hands gesturing and intonation straight out of the Lower East Side.
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We asked respondents what they would call the intonation, and they said words such as "proper", "professional", "Midwestern" and "different".
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This isn't Amazon's first new intonation for Alexa, as it launched a newscaster-like voice for US customers in January.
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The company says Alexa will deliver a customized Indian experience, which includes a new English voice with local pronunciations and intonation.
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This new study shows canines use the same part of their brains as humans do to process words, intonation and grammar.
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While it might be very easy to mimic the appearance of someone, voice and intonation are probably a bit more difficult.
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Dogs are capable of discerning vocabulary words and the intonation of human speech, according to a new study published in Science.
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As in her other plays, these people are represented in their own words, with Ms. Smith reproducing their intonation and cadence.
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Tacotron synthesized more high-level features, such as intonation and prosody, but wasn't really suited for producing a final speech product.
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It has been developing intonation data, based originally on SRI research, to help customer service operations respond better to caller's emotions.
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Hicks tells the show's victor Birch that he is not actually Prince Harry, but a totally average dude with some intonation issues.
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"When I finally understood gay lingo, I thought it was hilarious—the use of celebrity names as words, the intonation," he recalls.
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Belyaev says it's feeding them into the model to help it get better at understanding vocal intonation during important moments in meetings.
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Instead of equal temperament (the standard Western tuning system that divides the scale into 12 equal intervals) the work uses just intonation.
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He then read the official oath in full, while giving the second character of each "China," in Cantonese, a sharply rising intonation.
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Her des Grieux on Tuesday was the tenor Michael Fabiano, who often achieves penetrating resonance at the cost of intonation and gracefulness.
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Ms. McCulloch draws a parallel to spoken language: A period at the end of a sentence would usually suggest a lowering intonation.
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"We're building a universal understanding of satisfaction from intonation, where we can learn acoustic signatures that are positive, neutral, negative," Borschberg said.
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A man who feeds actors lines and sometimes hectors and even bullies them until he gets exactly the intonation and emphasis he wants.
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On Monday, Trump quietly began airing two new ads -- both of which offer a more positive intonation than seen in previous Trump spots.
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"Adding emotion-sensing capabilities will enable [virtual personal assistants] to analyze data points from facial expressions, voice intonation and behavioral patterns," Gartner said.
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By now, Watson's voice is as familiar to us as Siri's, even if it lacks the decidedly human intonation of its Apple counterpart.
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Her unaccented English, correct intonation and her large vocabulary soon got her a staff job reading the news to Asia's English-speaking countries.
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He also refined the work's peculiar system of "just" intonation tuning into something even more idiosyncratic, while exploring new combinations of favored chords.
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With only two voices in play, there is nowhere to hide incorrect intonation or rhythm; mistakes can be brutally obvious and cringe-worthy.
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AI startup Lyrebird developed a voice-imitation algorithm that can mimic any person's voice, and read any text with a predefined emotion or intonation.
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"It was soul-sucking," Sarandon told Cagle, who noted how difficult it must have been for the actresses to match every gesture and intonation.
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People say all the time that texting is really hard to deduce meaning from because it has no intonation and it has no nuance.
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Is somebody literally setting up a 111-mile taxi ride with the light-hearted intonation that you'd arrange a pint on a Tuesday night?
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But this much seems sayable: The audience was gripped, in particular by Mr. Gordon-Levitt's eerie resemblance to Mr. Snowden in appearance and intonation.
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Instead of employing grand changes in volume, "Everything That Rises" finds Mr. Adams exploring dissonance and just-intonation tuning, in the gentlest of ways.
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It's almost unheard-of for a pop soprano in her 70s to surpass her younger self in stamina, precision of intonation and vocal command.
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Having twice played Orson Welles, D'Onofrio has chosen to import a Wellesian bulk to "The Magnificent Seven," though without the matching rumble of intonation.
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Yet in his presence each lost gesture and intonation of Stolarsky's lined up on the front shelf of Bruno's awareness, waiting to be retrieved.
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"The reward center in dogs' brains became activated for praise words in praising intonation but not for any of the other three combinations," Andics said.
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It shows that for dogs, a nice praise can very well work as a reward, but it works best if both words and intonation match.
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His father's intonation -- killer, king -- was so powerful that, combined with the son's talents, it produced the ongoing crisis that is his White House rule.
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Indeed, so uniform is the intonation of BA's flight crew that I often wondered whether it was specifically taught as part of the airline's training.
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" But, he added, in an "extraordinary performance," Mr. Parisot "accomplished everything with an easy, almost bored expression," and "his tone and intonation never betrayed him.
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A dramatic synth line has been excised completely, too, which unearths a wordless falsetto intonation that had been far below the surface in the original.
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Oto, a startup spun off from research at SRI International to help customer service operations understand voice intonation, announced a $5.3 million seed round today.
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They may consider how long it takes you to respond, your intonation and body language, and whether you're being vague, evasive, or honest to a fault.
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As well as perming her hair and applying bright lipstick to look at least a little like a starlet, she practised and practised her English intonation.
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The study showed that dogs, like people, use the left hemisphere of their brain to process words, and a right hemisphere brain region to process intonation.
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Three craftsmen were needed to create a manuscript: one for the words, another for the proofreading and a third to dash in the delicate intonation markings.
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As with people's brains, parts of dogs' left hemisphere react to meaning and parts of the right hemisphere to intonation — the emotional content of a sound.
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It doesn't seem like a joke so much as a feat, and yet he's summing up entire regions with a slight change in intonation or affect.
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But — written down, devoid of intonation and context — it took on another meaning: that those teams are rather stronger in theory than they are in practice.
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Gucci Mane showed a generation how to emphasize intonation over enunciation, and how to deploy slight rhythmic imprecision to buck the stiff authority of the beat.
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They found that the canines' left hemisphere picked up on the meaning of the words, regardless of the intonation, associating words with positive or negative experiences.
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"Marlene's finest attribute as a singer was her intonation," the pianist Tedd Firth, who accompanied and arranged for her in her later years, said by email.
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The current study focused on what researchers dub "parentese," a speaking pattern common in many languages that is characterized by higher pitch, slower tempo and exaggerated intonation.
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You get to have so much fun with the intonation of this, even some of the harsh language that's used — how did you feel about playing that?
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What these systems can't do yet is automatically decide on the appropriate speaking style, intonation, and flow based on the meaning and context of a given sentence.
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Curiously, the dogs' reward center, which is a part of the brain that processes pleasurable stimuli, was only activated when praise words were spoken with positive intonation.
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Using recordings of native voice artists, the program teaches you how native speakers actually talk, so you're not listening to a robot with strange intonation and inflection.
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Having a core or root may be a very traditional thing, or very traditional idea or aesthetic, but I'm more interested in a newer intonation of that.
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In the third trimester of pregnancy, when the infant's ears are sufficiently developed, the intonation patterns of the mother's speech are transmitted through the fluids in the womb.
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It analyzed nuances in human speech like when people take a breath, and how voices rise and fall in a single sentence, and, of course, emphasis and intonation.
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He had a little bit of the intonation, and the delivery, and even sort of the body posture — how he holds himself and a bit of his swagger.
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Her once near-perfect intonation is gone, along with the phrasing that not so long ago enabled her to spin out notes like jet trails seemingly into infinity.
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Mr. Smith used trained singers, whom he molded into an ensemble as tightly knit as a string quartet, renowned for its rich vocal blend, flawless intonation and clarity.
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The echoey church organ effect that starts the song bewitches, as does Mitski's slow, drawn-out intonation ("You're … my … number one"), at once solemn and yearning and creepy.
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" Mr. Yang's dead-on impression of his boss consists of a single word, complete with a Canadian intonation, often heard when a skit isn't working at rehearsal: "No.
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Mr. Cohen's sepulchral, deadpan intonation is set within angelic voices, Gypsy violins and often an organ that can be churchy or bluesy; each verse could be last words.
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"It was always the intonation like we have done something bad that is a secret between us and that we should not repeat it to anybody," he said.
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Today, you may be able to find older New Yorkers and New Englanders who speak with Kennedy's soft, rolling intonation laced with the prim touches of finishing school.
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In Groot's case, he only ever utters "I am Groot," but it thanks to changes in his intonation, it can be interpreted to mean a multitude of things.
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This is thought to be like listening to someone talking in a swimming pool: It's difficult to make out the individual sounds, but the rhythm and intonation are clear.
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A new study from a group of Hungarian scientists found dogs understand both the meanings of words and the intonation you use to say them, reports The Washington Post.
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This will allow for the creation of voice apps – "Skills" on the Alexa platform – where developers can control the pronunciation, intonation, timing and emotion of their Skill's text responses.
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And crucially, these voice commands can be uttered with natural intonation—that is, you don't have to mimic the pattern of a robot to have the app understand your commands.
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"With this information we are able to capture data-sets that defines not only by the meaning but also by intonation, by context that you say something important," he explains.
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Image: Eniko Kubinyi"It shows that for dogs, a nice praise can very well work as a reward, but it works best if both words and intonation match," said Andics.
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"She already had everything—the right time, the sense of rhythm, the right intonation, an incredible Sarah Vaughan type of voice"—a pure bel canto, with exceptional range and precision.
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As words and sentences are linked to her emotional model, her voice intonation, her gestures and her reaction will depend of what was said, and what she had in memory.
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" He's excellent on the distinctions that can be conveyed "by an agency as subtle as an undone button, a gesture, a glance, an intonation, the pronunciation of a certain word.
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Students could use a voice memo recording tool such as those found on smartphones to demonstrate storytelling skills, engaging listeners through strong oral narration techniques like intonation, emphasis and tone.
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The opening intonation of the names is a long list, despite the fact that Ms. Wolfe limited herself to miners named John, and only Johns with one-syllable last names.
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Still being funny on the page, though — when your joke is stripped of its intonation, timing, and all that other clever stuff stand-ups do — is a whole different thing entirely.
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Her music is rewarding if you approach it that way—it's slow and methodical, paying particular attention to the timbre and intonation of her chosen instruments (often organ, but also others).
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Also in line with the Textio analysis, she said that Mr. Cruz spoke in the most masculine way, with few gestures or expressions, and with flat intonation and short, declarative sentences.
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But even without the words, without George Michael's utterly extraordinary vocal performance—and rarely has a singer demonstrated such understated mastery of phrasing, intonation, and delivery—"Last Christmas" drips with feeling.
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Hau-Yoon recounts hearing one of her students saying what he thought was "I want to ask you something," in Mandarin, however, his intonation meant that he said "I kiss you," instead.
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I've heard that for this one, they had trouble finding good enough bear sounds because there's so much intonation when I'm doing it on the set, and they want to match that.
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Meanwhile, the study also suggests that dogs use a right hemisphere brain region to process intonation independently of words, which means they may separate what you say from how you say it.
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Meanwhile, parts of the right hemisphere reacted to intonation, suggesting that the dogs processed the meaning of words separately from the tone in which they were spoken, according to the brain scans.
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Like humans, dogs use the left hemisphere of their brain to process words, and the right hemisphere to process intonation, which is the way our voices rise and fall when we talk.
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The papers both deal with methods for using AI to model style in end-to-end text to speech (TTS) systems and prosody matching—the rhythm, sound, stress and intonation of prose.
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In her low, slow, alluringly gravelly intonation, Morrison expresses the grief and fury of freed slaves and their offspring so intimately you feel as if she's speaking to you and only you.
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"Because we can't use intonation in our voice or body language to contextualize what we are saying, emoji are the way we do it online," Iyad Rahwan, associate professor the MIT Media, wrote.
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If the remaining program felt thin, the evening still offered plenty of evidence of Mr. Haas's uncanny command of texture and tone color and the emotional weight he wrests from subtle intonation games.
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Directors ask actors to change the intonation of a single word, while editors sweat over a film cut down to fractions of a second, all in pursuit of the right mood and atmosphere.
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"By adopting a rising intonation, Mr. Law was objectively expressing a doubt on or disrespect of the status of the People's Republic of China as Hong Kong's legitimate sovereign country," the judgment said.
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Analysis by Bellingcat comparing voice intonation, speech mannerisms, and sound frequency has determined with a high degree of confidence that Kharchenko's and Yakunin's voices match two of the men on the Metropol tape.
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Its intonation is off and the emphasis is often placed on the wrong syllable for most of what it pronounces, which includes some prefatory explanation and a coda as well as the names.
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A ray of hope was seeing a recent post about a new bot-authoring platform that not only uses rules, but AI as well, to learn conversational patterns and intonation of the target users.
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Pitched as a way for developers to create a "more natural voice experience," the update from the Seattle-based retail giant has made it possible to alter Alexa's intonation in numerous anxiety-producing ways.
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Google's goal with the updated voice was to put a heavier focus on intonation, making smoother rises and falls in its speech, while doing a better job of mirroring how a human would talk.
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She has learned to pare away crowd-pleasing vocal stunts like executing perfect coloratura duets with a flute and simply singing from the heart, which she did with warmth, balance, sensitivity and perfect intonation.
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There hasn't ever been a performing artist more convincingly vital at this age: Mr. Bennett's voice has weathered, but his intonation and phrasing are ironbound, and there's a burning, unforced pathos in his delivery.
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Here were four musicians who had thrown their hard-won concepts of Western intonation overboard in order to learn a new language to the point beyond fluency, where they communicated with eloquence and zest.
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"It shows that for dogs, a nice praise can very well work as a reward, but it works best if both words and intonation match," the study's head, Attila Andics, wrote in a statement.
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Electra's queenly intonation is completely arresting — the fact that her haughtiness is part of what protects her as a passing black trans woman is emphasized when she tears Blanca down for not passing as well.
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Like Ross, Kim speaks slowly and deliberately, without much intonation, and there are no plot twists or surprises as she defines her cheekbones and puckers her lips just as she's done a million times before.
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You have to deconstruct every word and intonation of Mike's poetry to understand what he's trying to say, but even then, the true intentions and meaning will, like Basquiat's, probably always be up for interpretation.
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But somehow, despite the hillbilly connotations of the banjo, or maybe because of it, Sera Cahoone's vocals on her new single "Up To Me" mystically transform the banjo into an instrument with depth and intonation.
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Its current title — "Tonecycle for Blues Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Ensemble Version with 4:3 and 7:6" — bears traces of Mr. Young's obsession with the whole-number ratios of just-intonation tuning.
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"It shows that for dogs, a nice praise can very well work as a reward, but it works best if both words and intonation match," Attila Andics, one of the study researchers, said in a statement.
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The singers showed off their flawless intonation in "North Woods," an exquisite setting of texts by Tacitus by the contemporary composer Scott Ordway (and the only piece on the program not by Pérotin or Mr. Lang).
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Flying Lessons Speaking of Instagram — if, like me, you're obsessed with why the founders quit last month, you can now watch Kevin Systrom's interview with Lauren Goode and analyze his body language and intonation for yourself.
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"I'm sure you've had the experience where someone says something, and you're not really listening, and then you can tell from their intonation that they've stopped talking and that they've asked you a question," Willingham said.
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Whatever voice option a user is currently using will be given a color, and the colors have been randomly selected by Google so as not to associate any one color with a certain gender or intonation.
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Soon, they will have audio accompaniment: half-century-old recordings of choreographer Yvonne Rainer reading, with the bare minimum of intonation, excerpts from the diary of William Bentley, an eighteenth-century Unitarian minister in Salem, Massachusetts.
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The other product measures the quality of a customer experience and gives a score at the end of each call to help the CSR (and their managers) understand how well they did, simply based on intonation.
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While Willow shared that the picture had "no sexual intonation whatsoever" and that Arias was like "a brother," an investigation ensued when CPS received a complaint that Pinkett Smith and husband Smith were starving their daughter.
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Furthermore, familiar, longer-form letters gave people important contextual information in the same way that face-to-face interactions and phone conversations allow for facial expressions and vocal intonation to play an important part of conveying meaning.
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Maya works with a group of Hungarian researchers at the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, who have scanned the brains of 13 dogs, finding that dogs process words and intonation to work out messages similarly to humans.
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"It shows that for dogs, a nice praise can very well work as a reward, but it works best if both words and intonation match," the study's lead researcher, Attila Andics, PhD, said in a press release.
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SLOAN: WELL, I DO. BUT I NEED TO BE VERY CAREFUL, BECAUSE WE'RE TWO DAYS BEFORE WE ANNOUNCE OUR EARNINGS, AND ANY INTONATION IN MY VOICE OR EXCITEMENT OR DISAPPOINTMENT MIGHT LEAD ANYBODY TO CONCLUDE SOMETHING INAPPROPRIATE.
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Owen Gardner, the guitarist, has altered the frets on his guitar (and on Max Eilbacher's bass) to accommodate the ancient just-intonation tuning system; the result is some warp and dissonance in his hammered, fast-picking patterns.
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By cultivating that intonation, was he expressing nostalgia for the kind of broken-cowboy-turned-mechanic blue-collar whiteness that he celebrated in his butch persona, his arms raised in triumph from a workingman's sleeveless denim jacket?
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The musical language is steeped in Asian elements, ancient modes, pentatonic scales, chantlike choral writing and systems of "just" (what Harrison considered the more natural) tuning, rather than the tempered intonation common to Western music for centuries.
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While Willow shared that the picture had "no sexual intonation whatsoever" and that Arias was like "a brother," an investigation ensued when CPS received a complaint that Pinkett Smith and husband Will Smith were starving their daughter.
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The startup uses AI to recreate a user's face photo-realistically in 3D based on nothing more than a selfie, while also capturing the tone and intonation of a user's voice based on just a little voice recording.
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She turned toward him in her sleep and she began to speak in Polish—a slow, anxious muttering, with the same words repeated over and over again, a phrase, almost musical, and eerie, a kind of narcotic intonation.
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Watch: Ex-Scientology Leader and Trans Icon Kate Bornstein on What It Takes to Survive: "Straight boys are soooo cuuuute," Alok said as they and Jacob started swiping, their exaggerated intonation managing to feel both sincere and ironic.
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Sweeney studied with Allen Ginsberg at Brooklyn College in the late 1980s (where I first met him), and employs something like his teacher's mesmerizing intonation and grand ambition, but with a discipline that would make a sensei proud.
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His face framed by a dramatic curtain of inky black hair and noticeably if discreetly modified by prosthetics, Mr. Franco certainly looks the part and sounds it too, having perfectly captured Mr. Wiseau's puzzling accent and arrhythmic intonation.
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"It uses real words and correct grammar, but it does use a higher pitch, a slower tempo and an exaggerated intonation," said Naja Ferjan Ramirez, an assistant professor at the department of linguistics at the University of Washington.
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Drawing on the techniques of documentary theater, as practiced by the likes of Anna Deavere Smith, these actors not only studied the words of the candidates but also the gestures, posture, tempo and vocal intonation that each used.
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Yonck describes today's emerging technologies for understanding our emotions using images of facial expressions, intonation patterns, respiration, galvanic skin response and other signals — and how these instruments might be adopted by the military and interactive augmented reality experiences.
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Babies first start learning language by listening not to individual words, but to the rhythm and intonation of the speech stream -- that is, the changes between high and low pitch, and the rhythm and loudness of syllables in speech.
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He might be catching on to more than you think -- and your intonation when saying certain words is just as important to him as the words themselves, according to a small study published in the journal Science on Tuesday.
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Man's best friend's brain "It was surprising that dogs, like people, have a clear left hemisphere dominance for processing meaningful words and that they combine word meaning and intonation to arrive at a unified representation of meaning," Andics said.
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I thought about it while I watched Christine Blasey Ford testify about a sexual assault that happened to her more than thirty years ago and that traumatized her still while the country picked apart her every word and intonation.
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"Even his Republican colleagues make this point: His language, his intonation, when he talks about carrying people out in stretchers ... this is a man who keeps implying violence, and then you end up getting what you seek," he said.
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Her mellifluous, murderous sound—the way she raises her voice without raising her eyes, because she doesn't want anyone to see her dope-dilated pupils—is a lesson in the power of intonation as a form of emotional expressiveness.
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The heroine's ceremony around Scarpia's corpse—the arrangement of the candles and the rest—was undercut by sketchy string intonation, and the frigid final chords of E minor and F-sharp minor, which should incite a shiver, merely wheezed.
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Compared with previous research, this study is exciting because it focuses on whether dogs can understand human speech, rather than words combined with intonation and/or gestures, Emory neuroscientist Gregory Berns, a senior author of the study, said in a statement.
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They flocked in their tens of thousands to his readings of his own and other writers' work, making him the rock-star poet of his age; "Babi Yar", declaimed with elaborate intonation and vigorous hand gestures, was a particular hit.
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Tishby realized that the crux of the issue was the question of relevance: What are the most relevant features of a spoken word, and how do we tease these out from the variables that accompany them, such as accents, mumbling and intonation?
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So there were different ways I had to memorize the script, and then I had to understand the words specifically within a Korean context, so it took a lot of study of tone, intonation, inflection, and leaving my own natural thing in it.
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In an effort to inject some life in the automated voices that come out of our apps, AI startup Lyrebird has developed a voice-imitation algorithm that can mimic any person's voice, and read any text with a predefined emotion or intonation.
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WIRED sat down with her at SXSW this week to talk about the monumental challenge of replicating human intonation, why the future of humanoid robots may not be particularly bright, and what happens when you let students teach a chatbot how to talk.
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The acoustic format accentuates Springsteen's gifts as a lyricist, bringing a different intonation to the inherent beauty of songs like "Dancing in the Dark" or "Thunder Road" that can be more easily overlooked with the E Street Band wailing away behind him.
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"The intonation to CIOs is, instead of helping me either build it in a more secure way or helping me explain to my company and my board, they&aposre basically saying &aposit&aposs not our fault, not our problem,&apos" Zukin said.
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"Both our voices have also been upgraded to use Neural Text to Speech capabilities, making them sound even more natural thanks to deep neural networks that match the patterns of stress and intonation in spoken language," explains Andrew Shuman, Microsoft's head of Cortana.
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You can build a better customer experience when you understand intonation of just how well that experience is going, and you put it on a scale so that it makes it easy to understand just how well or how poorly you are doing.
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Thanks to a little bit of narrative magic, Winnie the Pooh — whose every intonation is expressed perfectly by Jim Cummings — returns to Christopher's life to chip away at his adult plaque, and let that hidden 8-year-old out for another romp through the woods.
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But this inquiry will be dead on arrival in the Senate if Democrats do not test the capacity of their colleagues for moral emotions, most importantly shame and guilt, and do it publicly with the intonation, inflection, and body language of people who have them.
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"And there was something about her voice — a purity about her intonation and her range and her style — that made musicians react to her like we could react to Pablo Casals, Jessye Norman or Yo-Yo Ma." Ms. Fitzgerald died at her Beverly Hills, Calif.
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From an overdone trailer featuring the the requisite "Haunting Cover of a Popular Song"—a nonsensical "I Think We're Alone Now" dirge—to a version of Colonel Sanders that mixes Hal Holbrook intonation with Stephen Root delivery, The Hard Way is consistently weird and charming.
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He was wearing the same outfit in all of the videos I watched (one of those silky Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet shirts and an orange trilby) and spoke with the kind of chipper, inoffensive, Scrappy Doo-esque intonation that doesn't really exist in the physical realm.
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She was, however, the star of the sedate Triple Concerto, effortless and authoritative among her fellow soloists: Yefim Bronfman, making the most of an unremarkable piano part, and the veteran cellist Lynn Harrell, whose technique repeatedly slipped with crunching bow strokes, imprecise intonation and a tired legato.
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And essentially, while you're being interviewed, there's a camera that's recording you, and it's recording all of your micro facial expressions and all of the gestures you're using, the intonation of your voice, and then pattern matching those things that they can detect with their highest performers.
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"We showed dogs praise words and non-praise words, in both praising and non-praising intonation, and we found that dogs just like humans can separately process word meaning information ... in the speech signal and intonational information," lead researcher Attila Andics of the Department of Ethology told Reuters.
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As part of Theater of Eternal Music, which played at the composer La Monte Young's TriBeCa loft, he contributed the dry, astringent sound of his violin to the ensemble's long-form drone improvisations, and his mathematical background provided the theoretical underpinnings of the group's unconventional system of musical intonation.
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No matter what he's looking at — and talking about, in the accent and intonation that by now has risen to the level of self-parody — Herzog is just as interested in how humans live in the midst of the world's mysteries as he is in those mysteries themselves.
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He says things like "you've got a naughty little smile" or "I like a girl with a twinkle in her eye" completely flatly and without intonation, and the overall effect is less sexy and more menacing, like Patrick Bateman ordering an escort or a sex-offender gynecologist preparing for a gloveless pelvic exam.
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It's playful but pointed.) Her scat improvisations are as unerring as her intonation, but some of the most jaw-dropping singing unfolds in slow motion: on "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)," over a moseying bass line, or "Time After Time," with just piano, at a gently billowing tempo.
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NEWARK — The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra began its concert on Friday at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center here by tuning, as usual, to a common A. But there was one other thing that needed fine-tuning before the performance, of music by Tchaikovsky and Barber, could begin: the audience's intonation and diction.
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The word emoji is from the Japanese for "picture character," and the system they represent is better understood as a code than a language, one that "enables us to provide the non-verbal cues otherwise missing from textspeak" by communicating gesture, intonation and body language when those important elements are otherwise impossible.
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Beyond a self-evident pun referring to music played 19813 feet underground, "Deep Listening" signified Ms. Oliveros's emerging aural discipline: a practice that compelled listening not just to the conventional details of a given musical performance — melody, harmony, rhythm, intonation — but also to sounds surrounding that performance, including acoustic space and extra-musical noise.
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This means that in the span of a couple tracks he can be extremely playful—like flipping a Brandy-featuring viral video into jagged acid-juke on the opener "No Body"—and extraordinarily serious (the grave intonation "We're at war in these streets" forms the basis of the record's skittering bass-bomb "At War"), and both tacts feel daring.
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Why not show with your words, your intonation, and your actions -- by visiting kids like Emma in what is identifiably Northside Hospital, and naming the hospital by name, because it's one of the best hospitals in the state, with affiliated doctors all over the district, and it conveys that you know that district and care about the people in it.
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"[W]hile you're being interviewed, there's a camera that's recording you, and it's recording all of your micro facial expressions and all of the gestures you're using, the intonation of your voice, and then pattern matching those things that they can detect with their highest performers," AI Now Institute co-founder Kate Crawford told Recode's Kara Swisher earlier this year.
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To most people who spend time online, periods are only used for the multi-sentence messages or formal communications, Gretchen McCulloch, internet linguist and author of "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language," tells CNBC Make It. "A period can indicate an increased level of seriousness, or formality or gravity or a falling intonation at the end of the sentence," she says.
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When she was on top, he slapped her thigh and said, "Yeah, yeah, you like that," with an intonation that made it impossible to tell whether he meant it as a question, an observation, or an order, and when he turned her over he growled in her ear, "I always wanted to fuck a girl with nice tits," and she had to smother her face in the pillow to keep from laughing again.
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And yeah, while it is extremely funny to hear Manchester's most beloved smartass adopt a sincere storytelling intonation (he opens, "It's win-ah, and it's cold this time a year, isn't it?" with all the grace of a trolley dash), it's nice to see him topping off what might well be the best year of his later career with a moment to give something back on behalf of a cause that most of us don't think enough about.
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