Many of us struggle to make sense what is without doubt a deepening global socio-economic and political crisis, at the heart this crisis lies an unprecedented multi-directional assault on freedom speech. But free speech? How should it be exercised ends? These are more difficult questions navigate in contexts growing divisions society, crises state governabilities, people’s governmentalities dis...

Heckling receives little attention in the vast literature on freedom of speech. But, a recent contribution, Jeremy Waldron explores positive case for practice. asks us to see heckling as spectrum activities, some which should be both protected and encouraged. In his view, primary speaker’s right speak is not perfectly tailored (or choreographed) presentation before subdued audience. A great dea...

Freedom of expression is the cornerstone and warrant democracy, but like all other rights freedoms we enjoy, also right to free speech has its limits. Hate one most resilient manifestations cyberviolence, not be equalled with speech. This partly related our perception freedom that substantially changed through time; from past focus on being able freely express your opinion, question, dissent ch...

The large volume of user-generated content on the Social Web puts a high burden on the participants to evaluate the accuracy and quality of such content. Researchers have been trying to address this problem by focusing on discovering influential entities inside social platforms to guide their ranking algorithms. Often these entities correspond to people or organizations already influential in t...

Speech synthesis research has been transformed in recent years through the exploitation of speech corpora – both for statistical modelling and as a source of signals for concatenative synthesis. This revolution in methodology and the new techniques it brings calls into question the received wisdom that better computer voice output will come from a better understanding of how humans produce spee...

Speech synthesis research has been transformed in recent years through the exploitation of speech corpora – both for statistical modelling and as a source of signals for concatenative synthesis. This revolution in methodology and the new techniques it brings calls into question the received wisdom that better computer voice output will come from a better understanding of how humans produce spee...

Qualitative researchers can usually discern the difference between obedient speech and fearless, critical, or oppositional speech. Yet context in which acts are performed is necessarily uneven, such that same people who might speak freely one place often quick to engage another. Speech also depend on speaker's positionality, meaning some speakers may have privilege act as ‘truth-tellers’ freely...