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‘Beautiful and courageous’: Boy with stutter shares advice Joe Biden gave him and wins over viewers with touching DNC speech 0
- BUSINESS
- August 21, 2020
The Independent employs reporters around the world to bring you truly independent journalism. To support us, please consider a contribution. A 13-year-old boy with a verbal stutter shared the advice from Joe Biden that helped him find his voice to speak during Thursday night’s Democratic National Convention. Brayden Harrington, of New Hampshire, met the presidential candidate
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Improving remote care by monitoring speech 0
- HEALTH
- June 29, 2020
RSM webinar: Improving remote care by monitoring speech: Dr Yoram Levanon will describe the main concepts behind the use of vocal expression to gain insights into healthcare. He will present his vision of a future where remote care is enhanced by the continuous monitoring of speech to infer health status through AI-Human interactions. This webinar will explore: How emotional and physiological
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In My Skin’s Gabrielle Creevy: ‘I can’t bear to watch my Bafta acceptance speech’0
- BUSINESS
- April 8, 2020
If there’s any justice, Gabrielle Creevy is going to be very famous. Her performance as Bethan, the sassy, sharp-tongued teenager in the new BBC Three drama In My Skin, is mesmerising. Based on Kayleigh Llewellyn’s experiences of growing up in working-class Wales, the series explores what it is to come of age in a world
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Brexit: Queen’s speech says government priority is to leave EU on 31 October – live news | Politics 0
- BUSINESS
- October 14, 2019
One option under consideration in Number 10 is that, if the EU accepted in principle Johnson’s customs partnership for the Northern Ireland proposal without a backstop, but said it needed more time to iron out the details, Johnson could agree to a three-month technical extension to Article 50. Some senior Tories believe that Johnson could
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Queen’s Speech: New laws on crime, health and the environment planned 0
- BUSINESS
- October 14, 2019
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The Queen will announce the government’s intended new laws for the year ahead at 11.30 BST Policies on crime, immigration, health and the environment form the heart of Boris Johnson’s new legislative agenda, to be unveiled in the Queen’s Speech. Plans to end the free movement of EU citizens to
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Trump mocks Greta Thunberg after emotional UN speech: ‘Such a happy young girl’0
- BUSINESS
- September 24, 2019
Donald Trump has mocked Greta Thunberg on Twitter, after the 16-year-old condemned world leaders for failing to combat climate change. “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood,” the Swedish schoolgirl said during a speech at the UN climate summit on Monday. “We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk
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