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  • 21set the tone for something — set the tone (for (something)) to establish a particular mood or character for something. The governor s speech was intended to set the tone for the party s national convention next week. Usage notes: sometimes used with an adjective before tone …

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  • 22set the tone for — set the tone (for (something)) to establish a particular mood or character for something. The governor s speech was intended to set the tone for the party s national convention next week. Usage notes: sometimes used with an adjective before tone …

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  • 23set the tone — (for (something)) to establish a particular mood or character for something. The governor s speech was intended to set the tone for the party s national convention next week. Usage notes: sometimes used with an adjective before tone: The… …

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  • 24set-up — ˈset up also setup noun [countable] 1. the way something is organized or arranged: • The trust will be managed by a board of directors, although that setup requires regulatory approval. 2. COMPUTING all the parts that work together in a system,… …

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  • 25set forth — ► set forth 1) begin a journey or trip. 2) state or describe in writing or speech. Main Entry: ↑set …

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  • 26Speech act — For the US Act, see SPEECH Act of 2010. Speech Act is a technical term in linguistics and the philosophy of language. The contemporary use of the term goes back to John L. Austin s doctrine of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts.… …

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  • 27Speech recognition — For the human linguistic concept, see Speech perception. The display of the Speech Recognition screensaver on a PC, in which the character responds to questions, e.g. Where are you? or statements, e.g. Hello. Speech recognition (also known as… …

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  • 28Speech synthesis — Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous people using speech synthesis to communicate Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented… …

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  • 29set — set1 W1S1 [set] v past tense and past participle set present participle setting ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(put)¦ 2¦(put into surface)¦ 3¦(story)¦ 4¦(consider)¦ 5¦(establish something)¦ 6¦(start something happening)¦ 7¦(decide something)¦ …

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  • 30Speech Application Programming Interface — The Speech Application Programming Interface or SAPI is an API developed by Microsoft to allow the use of speech recognition and speech synthesis within Windows applications. To date a number of versions of the API have been released, which have… …

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