blowoff n.— «The Elliot Forbes speech was what is known in the carnival world as a “blowoff,” long used in 10-in-one freak shows to hustle additional money from people who had already paid an admission price. In any good...
ego ramp n.— «A 10-hour construction project had begun to erect a new, island-like stage from which President Bush will deliver his acceptance speech tonight surrounded by delegates. It will be the first such use of an island or arena...
386 generation n.— «Mr. Lee said in a speech to the Korean Businesswomen’s Federation that an insufficient understanding of economics by Koreans in their late 30s and early 40s—the “386 generation”—was limiting the nation’s...
re-speaker n.— «Script Capture supplements this with a re-speak system—using recognition trained to the re-speaker’s voice—to produce transcripts for programmes for which none exists.» —“Speech Recognition in Assited and Live...
re-speaker n.— «A “re-speaker,” listening to the performer’s speech during the program, utters the content of that speech into the speech recognizer, which automatically produces a caption script.» —“First ‘Kohaku...
respeaker n.— «In live closed-captioned broadcasts, staffers called respeakers translate the original audio content into speech-recognition software that creates the closed captions.» —“NHK to add closed captions to...