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Speaker separation
Speaker separation is a signal processing and machine learning method that extracts one speech signal per speaker from an audio mixture of two or more overlapping voices.
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is OutKast's 2003 double album pairing Big Boi's Speakerboxxx and André 3000's The Love Below; it sold 11.4 million copies, topped the Billboard 200 for seven weeks, and became the second hip-hop Album of the Year Grammy winner.
Speakers' Corner
Speakers' Corner is the open-air public speaking site at the north-east edge of London's Hyde Park near Marble Arch, established by the 1872 Parks Regulation Act after the 1866–1867 Reform League protests; anyone may speak on any lawful subject, traditionally on Sundays.
Speaking clock
The speaking clock, also known as Froken ur, is a telephone service that announces the correct time to callers, first automated in Paris in 1933, with Britain's TIM service following in 1936.
Speaking in tongues
Speaking in tongues, or glossolalia, is a religious practice of producing speech-like utterances attributed to the Holy Spirit, best known in Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity.
Speaking in Tongues (Talking Heads album)
Speaking in Tongues (1983, Sire) is Talking Heads' fifth studio album and first self-produced record, a funk-driven commercial breakthrough yielding "Burning Down the House," the band's only Top 10 single, and closing with "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)."
Spear
A spear is a weapon consisting of a long shaft with a pointed head of stone, bone, or metal, used for thrusting or throwing, and among the oldest human weapons.
SPEAR 3
SPEAR 3 (Selected Precision Effects At Range) is a British miniature cruise missile developed by MBDA for the UK's F-35B and Typhoon aircraft, with a range exceeding 100 km.
Spear REIT Limited
Spear REIT Limited is a South African real estate investment trust founded in 2011 and listed on the JSE in 2016, investing predominantly in Western Cape property, with assets of about R8.4 billion by 2026.
Spear-thrower
The spear-thrower, also called the atlatl, is a handheld rod, strap, or board that uses leverage to launch a spear or dart faster and farther than the arm alone.
Spearfish torpedo
The Spearfish torpedo is a British 533 mm heavyweight torpedo launched from Royal Navy submarines since 1994, built to sink fast, deep-diving submarines and surface warships.
Spearfish, SD Micro Area
Spearfish, SD Micro Area (code 43940): a micropolitan statistical area covering Lawrence County, South Dakota, principal city Spearfish; part of the Rapid City-Spearfish CSA; 25,768 residents in 2020.
Spearhead Oil Pipeline
The Spearhead Oil Pipeline, also called Enbridge Line 55, is a 583-mile Enbridge crude oil pipeline from Flanagan, Illinois, to Cushing, Oklahoma, in reversed service since 2006.
Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport
The Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport, formerly the Joint High Speed Vessel, is a class of United States Navy catamarans carrying troops and cargo at over 35 knots within a theater.
Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, also called Spearman's rho, is a nonparametric statistic measuring how well two variables follow a monotonic relationship, ranging from −1 to +1. Charles Spearman introduced it in 1904.
Spearmint
Spearmint (Mentha spicata), also called garden mint, is a strongly aromatic perennial herb grown worldwide as a culinary herb and source of carvone-rich essential oil.
Spearthrower Owl
Spearthrower Owl, also known as Jatz'om Kuy, is the modern nickname for a Teotihuacan ruler, reigning from 374 to 439 CE, whose son became king of Tikal.
SPEC CPU
SPEC CPU is a family of computer benchmark suites from the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation that measures compute-intensive performance by compiling and running real application source code.
Spec Ops: The Line
Spec Ops: The Line is a 2012 third-person military shooter by Yager Development and 2K Games set in ruined Dubai, a Heart of Darkness-inspired antiwar critique of the shooter genre, delisted permanently in January 2024.
Spec script
Spec script: a non-commissioned screenplay written unpaid on the writer's own initiative (also called speculative screenplay) to be sold, optioned, or used as a writing sample; distinct from assignments, pitches, and shooting scripts.
SPEC3/Stum
SPEC3/Stum (InterPro IPR026673) is a family of multi-pass membrane proteins including sea urchin SPEC3, a ciliogenesis protein, and Drosophila Stum (stumble), required for proprioceptive joint-angle mechanosensing, with conserved orthologs from nematodes to humans.
SPECC1L-related hypertelorism syndrome
SPECC1L-related hypertelorism syndrome, formerly Teebi hypertelorism syndrome, is a rare autosomal dominant disorder from SPECC1L gene variants, causing widely spaced eyes and birth defects like omphalocele.
Specht module
A Specht module is a module for the symmetric group built from Young tableaux of a given partition shape, introduced by Wilhelm Specht in 1935.
Special (TV series)
Special is an American semi-autobiographical comedy series created by, written by, and starring Ryan O'Connell, adapted from his 2015 memoir and streamed on Netflix from 2019 to 2021.
Special 26
Special 26 is a 2013 Hindi heist thriller directed and written by Neeraj Pandey, starring Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher, and Manoj Bajpayee, about con artists posing as CBI officers, based on the 1987 Opera House heist.
Special Activities Center
Special Activities Center (SAC), formerly Special Activities Division, is the CIA Directorate of Operations' covert action arm, running the Special Operations Group for paramilitary missions under presidential findings.
Special administrative regions of China
Special administrative regions of China: Hong Kong (1997) and Macau (1999), highly autonomous territories under "one country, two systems," each with its own Basic Law, currency, customs territory, and common-law or Portuguese-derived legal system.
Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics (Colombia)
The Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics, known as Aerocivil, is Colombia's civil aviation authority, a technical entity under the Ministry of Transport that regulates airspace, provides navigation services, and investigates accidents.
Special agent
Special agent: sworn US criminal-investigator title used since 1872 in the Justice Department and by FBI, DEA, ATF, IRS-CI, Secret Service, and Diplomatic Security Service agents with arrest and warrant authority.
Special Agent Oso
Special Agent Oso, American computer-animated preschool series created by Ford Riley, aired on Playhouse Disney/Disney Channel 2009-2012, 2 seasons, 60 episodes; panda agent-in-training of U.N.I.Q.U.E. voiced by Sean Astin teaches tasks in three steps.