A. Nahamoo says 1,000 hours of recorded speech is considered the minimum database required for a building respectable system. And markoff notes that Google, in a technical paper on building large models for machine translation, wrote that the system used 2 trillion “tokens,” or words.
B. While all the other students wrote a ten-page final exam for Dr. Hayakawa, I brought a typewriter and wrote a fifty-page final exam. It might have been on the basis of this that I received the special scholarship.
C. He knew, as a teacher of public speaking, that he was using humor as a means to the end of education or learning, whereas the comedian could be using the humour as both the means as well as the end.
D. Often, too, men and women come to see that there is a difference between sitting in judgment on another and understanding how and what he sees, assumes, and feels. They begin with what is easier, judging, approving, condemning. It is only as they mature in their study of others and themselves, that the easy praising and blaming give way to asking, searching, listening.