Converse of object

• slur: It starts to affect sufferers between 30 and 55 years old and causes sudden movements, slurred speech and memory lapses.

• deliver: He had to deliver a speech at the Japanese embassy - in Japanese!

Adjective modifier

• maiden: In her maiden speech, she advocated bringing down the voting age of women to twenty-one.

• spontaneous: The method is applied to a challenging task: the recognition of spontaneous dialog speech.

• free: How fares free speech in America, you ask.

• impassioned: Twelve-year-old Louise made an impassioned speech about poverty in Africa.

• inspirational: A persuasive, motivational and inspirational speech by Mark Twain.

• synthetic: Without doubt, there has been a huge improvement in the quality of synthetic speech over the last few years.

Modifies a noun

• recognition: Also speech data gathered during the field trial was analyzed to give speech recognition accuracy.

• synthesis: Technology has brought us a long way from the Dalek sounding delivery, typical of early efforts at speech synthesis.

• therapist: Speech therapists work in a variety of settings including schools, health centers, hospitals or private practice.

• impediment: Jamie Oliver and his lisping, mockney screen presence has carried him from speech impediment obscurity, to movie star celebrity status.

• bubble: Their work incorporates fifty different abstracted tags and marks, housed within repeat speech bubbles and screen printed onto pastel colored tiles.

• synthesizer: Many people with disabilities use special Web browsers, including those that reads text out loud by using a speech synthesizer.

Noun used with modifier

• keynote: At this historic launch Mrs Rosemary Kennedy, Chief Nursing Officer for Wales, will make a keynote speech to launch the Academy.

• key-note: Barriers were broken down and people were equal, reflecting the philosophy behind the key-note speech on the Social Model Of Deafness.

• acceptance: With the old acceptance speech out the way, here is the full list of winners.

• closing: The closing speech will consist of the words ' Everyone in Liverpool's a natural comedian you know ' .

• farewell: She received her leaving gift and a farewell speech from John Evans at the Christmas party in Ty Llen, Swansea.

• hate: The article on " hate speech " discusses some of these cases and gives a few references.