The program includes a pre-address program with corporate sponsors, plus a post-speech reception for some ticket-holders.
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The listener's speech reception threshold ( SRT ) for target sentences is calculated using an adaptive procedure.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan however, met with Arafat on Sunday morning, and dozens of world leaders turned out for a post-speech reception in Arafat's honor at the delegates'dining room.
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Sound pressure levels at the human eardrum are typically 7-18dB higher in the 1 kHz to 6 kHz frequency range ( essential for good speech reception ) than they would be without the pinna.
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The foundation's press release said the new method could " revolutionize the treatment of a type of learning disability that affects millions of children and adults, " either in the form of speech reception problems or the reading problems of dyslexia.
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"Fast ForWord enabled more than 90 percent of the children in our large-scale field trial to overcome the fundamental speech reception problems that underlie their language-learning impairments, " said Cheryle Bolton, chief executive of Scientific Learning Corp . of San Francisco, which was founded by the academic researchers who developed the method.