how to pronounce speech

/ˈspiːtʃ/

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the above transcription of speech is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

speech is pronounced in one syllable

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1.

iː

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video examples of speech pronunciation

An example use of speech in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… dates uh in his speech last night and …”

meaning of speech

Speech is the act of talking.

speech frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word speech occurs in english on average 49.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics speech can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that speech can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;