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Recent Examples of intonation
Today, Nova Sonic is available in English, Spanish, French, Italian and German and offers both masculine and feminine intonations for voice agents assisting consumers.
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Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 16 July 2025
From the start, Pygmalion’s musicians stood out, not so much for their pristine intonation and liquid legato—today’s early-music ensembles have transcended the scrawniness of yore—as for their vibrant phrasing, their bold colors, their air of spontaneous excitement.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
However, text alone fails to capture many key aspects of human speech, such as intonation, that help to convey meaning.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2025
One of my four sisters would grab the paper and read these gems out loud, in a proclamation voice with special intonation for any name-drop of an Ivy League or Seven Sisters school.
—Lian Dolan, People.com, 20 May 2025
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Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 16 July 2025
From the start, Pygmalion’s musicians stood out, not so much for their pristine intonation and liquid legato—today’s early-music ensembles have transcended the scrawniness of yore—as for their vibrant phrasing, their bold colors, their air of spontaneous excitement.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
However, text alone fails to capture many key aspects of human speech, such as intonation, that help to convey meaning.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2025
One of my four sisters would grab the paper and read these gems out loud, in a proclamation voice with special intonation for any name-drop of an Ivy League or Seven Sisters school.
—Lian Dolan, People.com, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intonation
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The contrast with Electronic Arts’ (EA) dramatic performance turnaround under Andrew Wilson provides strategic leaders a cautionary tale—and a model for what true point-of-inflection leadership looks like.—
George Bradt,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Investors have been long waiting for a growth inflection due to the company's attractive end markets and scale, but Medtronic has been delivering underwhelming mid-single digit revenue growth for the past 10 years.—
Kenneth Squire,
CNBC,
23 Aug. 2025
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Just a few autumnal accents can turn your mantel into a harvest haven—and a festive display doesn’t need to break the bank.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Sep. 2025
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The Speak No Evil star is bringing his directorial debut California Schemin’ to the Toronto Film Festival for a world premiere, and his hip hop hoax movie reveals why Scots speaking with a different accent from the English face key barriers to success down south.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
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The system runs simulations to predict where stress will build up in a 3D model, then reserves high-performance plastics for those regions.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
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Participants’ heart rates were higher during the hot class, but that extra cardiovascular stress didn’t translate to more bodily work overall.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
4 Sep. 2025
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Here is the emphasis on the hardscrabble beginnings and obstacles to be overcome, here is the recognition of a truly raw but once-in-a-lifetime talent that converts the nonbelivers, here are the early wins and the training montages and the tragedies and the comebacks.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Sep. 2025
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The conference joins the Big Ten and Big 12 in shifting towards creating more familiar matchups, with an emphasis on strengthening competition.—
Noah White,
Miami Herald,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Intonation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intonation. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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