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14 Must-Try YouTube Channels for a Fun Speech Therapy session. The ultimate guide.

YouTube has become a versatile tool for speech therapists, offering a vast array of resources to make sessions more engaging and effective. In this blog post, we’ll explore 14 creative ways to leverage YouTube during your speech therapy sessions, along with examples of channels to get you started.

Language Lab Adventures

Explore the “ Super Simple Songs – Kids Songs ” channel for catchy tunes and animated videos that enhance language development in a fun and interactive way.

Storytelling Extravaganza

“ StoryBots ” offers entertaining animated stories, making it an excellent resource for incorporating storytelling into your sessions.

Phonics Fiesta

Check out “ Jack Hartmann Kids Music Channel ” for phonics songs and exercises that turn learning into a musical adventure.

Pronunciation Playground

“ Rachel’s English ” offers pronunciation guides and accent modification tutorials, making it ideal for clients looking to refine their speech.

Role-Playing Rendezvous

Explore “ KidVision Pre-K ” for videos that simulate everyday scenarios and virtual field trips, providing opportunities for role-playing and conversation practice.

Breathing Bliss

Find guided breathing exercises and relaxation videos on “ Mindful Kids “, aiding clients in improving breathing and voice control.

Visual Aid Voyage

“ KidsTV123 ” provides visually stimulating videos with flashcards and images, reinforcing vocabulary and language concepts.

Narrative Novelties

For the older students, you can use short clips from “ TED-Ed ” as prompts for building narratives, encouraging storytelling and creative expression.

News Report Nook

Analyze news reports or interviews on “ CNN Student News “, enhancing listening comprehension and discussion skills.

Educational Documentaries Deep Dive

Introduce educational documentaries from “National Geographic Kids” or “ BBC Earth ” related to your client’s interests for enriched language discussions.

Articulation Challenges Circuit

Encourage clients to follow channels like “ Articulation Station ” for challenging words or phrases, fostering articulation improvement.

Interactive Discussions Destination

Watch and discuss informative talks on “ TEDx Talks ” for interactive discussions on a range of communication and speech-related topics.

Toddler Learning

Ms Rachel uses techniques recommended by speech therapists and early childhood experts to help children learn important milestones and preschool skills!

Augmentative Communication and literacy

Mister Clay’s videos center around Augmentative Communication and literacy, but really are for anyone who wants to have fun and learn. These language-based videos cover everything from letter sounds to parts of speech.

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Created: August 12, 2020 ; Next update: 2024.

Speech therapy can help people who have difficulty speaking to communicate better and to break down the barriers that result from speech impediments. The goals of speech therapy include improving pronunciation, strengthening the muscles used in speech, and learning to speak correctly.

Speech therapy can be used for a lot of different speech problems and disorders, from smaller problems like a hoarse voice up to partial loss of speech due to brain damage. Depending on the type of disorder, other medical or psychological treatments may be used as well.

• What kinds of disorders can speech therapy treat?

Speech therapy can be used to treat language disorders, speech disorders and swallowing problems.

Language disorders

A childhood language disorder can affect the child’s ability to learn to speak, to name objects and build complete sentences. Although the causes of these disorders are often not clear, the main known risk factors include hearing problems , general developmental problems and disorders affecting the development of the brain.

Language disorders in adults are almost always the result of brain injury or disease. People who have had a stroke , for example, often have trouble forming sentences or remembering words. That type of disorder is called aphasia.

Speech disorders

People with speech disorders have difficulty producing the sounds of speech, saying words clearly or talking fluently.

Children often have trouble with pronunciation, and may have a lisp or swap certain sounds for others. Speech disorders may be the result of developmental disorders, but psychological factors might also play a role. Adults with neurological diseases sometimes have speech disorders too, often making it hard to understand them.

Another group of speech disorders, known as fluency disorders, involve problems with the flow or evenness of speech. People with this sort of disorder may stutter or “clutter,” for example. When people stutter, there are often silent pauses in their speech, or they repeat or lengthen certain sounds or syllables. Cluttering is abnormally fast speech that makes the pronunciation imprecise or leaves out sounds or parts of words.

Voice disorders (dysphonia)

A voice disorder is a persistent change in someone’s voice. They might sound hoarse, strained, raspy or nearly silent. Often the voice is somewhat weak – in other words, it cracks easily or the person is not able to speak loudly. Voice disorders may arise from speaking too much or too loudly, from using the wrong breathing technique, or from problems with the voice box (larynx) like vocal nodules . Psychological causes like depression or a reaction to a distressing event can change a person’s voice too.

Trouble swallowing

In people with swallowing problems, the movements of the muscles involved in swallowing are affected. This leads to problems transporting food through the mouth and throat. The cause is often a disease or disorder of the nervous system, such as Parkinson’s disease , multiple sclerosis, dementia , an infection like Lyme disease or tetanus, or a head injury. If food gets into the lungs because of a swallowing disorder, it can lead to life-threatening complications.

What treatments are used in speech therapy?

There are various speech therapy techniques for each of the areas described above – the ones that are considered depend on the particular disorder. A long series of treatment sessions is typically needed, with each lasting 30 to 60 minutes. They may take place in a group or one-on-one.

The treatment approaches used in speech therapy include:

• Perception exercises, for example to differentiate between individual sounds and syllables
• Exercises to produce certain sounds and improve the fluency of speech
• Exercises to improve breathing, swallowing and the voice
• Help with communication using things like sign language, communication boards and computer-assisted speech
• Advice for people who need speech therapy, their parents and other loved ones
• Support in implementing these measures in everyday life

For the treatment to help over the long term, it’s often important to also regularly practice the techniques at home.

• Where is speech therapy offered?

Speech therapy is offered at the following facilities:

• Speech therapy practices
• Rehabilitative care centers
• Special needs schools
• Children's day care facilities specializing in speech therapy

Besides speech therapists, there are a number of other specialists who also use similar methods. These include breathing, speech and voice coaches.

• Do statutory health insurers cover the costs of speech therapy?

Note: The procedures and requirements for applying for and receiving speech therapy may vary according to your country. This information describes the current situation in Germany.

To have outpatient treatment at a speech therapy practice, you need a prescription from a doctor. An initial prescription will generally include up to 10 treatments, each typically lasting 30 to 60 minutes. Appointments are usually offered one to three times per week.

For the medical conditions listed above, prescribed speech therapy is often covered by statutory health insurers (apart from a fixed amount that you have to pay yourself, known as a copayment). The copayment does not have to be paid when getting a treatment that has been prescribed for children. If speech therapy is given as a part of rehabilitative care, an accident insurer or pension fund will cover the costs.

The copayment that you have to pay for yourself is 10 euros per prescription plus 10% of the treatment costs. If each treatment costs 55 euros, for example, for ten treatments you would have to pay 65 euros (the basic fee of 10 euros per prescription plus 10 x 5.50 euros).

Some speech therapists may offer certain treatments without a prescription. You then have to pay for all of the costs yourself. In Germany, these are known as individual health care services (individuelle Gesundheitsleistungen, or IGeL for short).

The German Federal Association of Speech Therapists (DBL) has a search function for speech therapists on their website (in German).

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The Radical Case for Free Speech

By Jay Caspian Kang

If you read certain columnists or follow a particular set of writers and pundits on social media—including me—you know that the First Amendment is always in crisis. Nearly every incursion, whether it’s the shouting down of a conservative speaker on a college campus or an alleged incident of hate speech, gets shoved into a civil-liberties outrage machine, generating new cycles of vitriol and pushback. And yet the resulting debates, on op-ed pages and elsewhere, can feel strangely abstract and academic. The pundits and scholars who participate in them sometimes seem like taxonomists who show more concern for the precision of their determinations than for real-world outcomes for speech and expression.

Police in riot gear may swarm onto the grounds of a college campus in a show of force and intimidation, and pundits will conclude that the relevant concern is whether students have the right to forcefully occupy a building. The Mayor of New York may intimate that it is his job, as an elected official, to shield the minds of college students from the influence of “outside agitators” who have infiltrated campuses, and some of these pundits may seem unalarmed. After police officers broke up a student protest at Columbia University, the deputy commissioner of the New York Police Department went on television and held up a book titled “ Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction ,” citing it as evidence that someone was “radicalizing” students. The book is not an instruction manual—it is a historical and philosophical primer sold in many university bookstores. But both the top elected official in New York City and one of its top cops appear to believe that they have the authority to tell students whom they should associate with and what books they should and should not read.

I may now be guilty of another flaw in contemporary free-speech debates, which is how frequently the debaters criticize others for not caring about the right things. This reflex, with its attendant charges of hypocrisy, makes up the vast majority of modern free-speech discourse. If you are outraged by police repression of pro-Palestine encampments, you will be asked what you would say if a pro-Trump rally had been shuttled off campus. If you stand up for a conservative speaker who has been deplatformed by chanting students, you will be asked to offer the same defense for someone who’s lost a job on account of a social-media post that was sympathetic to the people in Gaza. The spirit behind such tests isn’t wrong. The defense of free speech should be viewpoint-neutral, and many people—including quite a few elected officials—are hypocritical about such things. (Consider Texas’s governor, Greg Abbott , who signed a campus free-speech law in 2019, in response to the deplatforming of a few conservative speakers, and then turned around and brought in what certainly appeared to be excessive force against campus protesters in late April of this year.) But the discussion around free speech has become mired in these hypotheticals. What should be a lively and malleable conversation about the law and what it protects has instead devolved into a series of online show trials, polarized along familiar political lines.

I have taken part in these debates for years, mostly to urge the American political left to revive the radical free-speech movements of the past . These efforts, for the most part, have been laughably unsuccessful. I’m open to the possibility that this is a personal failing, but I am convinced that some of the problem lies with the broader tenor of the conversation, which has become histrionic, pedantic, ad hominem, and overly concerned with what happens on college campuses. If you want to engage in a back-and-forth about free speech these days, you should expect to be pathologized, quizzed on legal trivia, and labelled a hypocrite. Who, in their right mind, would want any of that?

The First Amendment has its stewards, and, for better or worse, the conversation around free speech tends to revolve around what they say. Among the most prominent are the American Civil Liberties Union and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Both organizations are devoted to the freedom of speech, and both maintain that they are nonpartisan. But the A.C.L.U. has long been associated with progressive politics, and FIRE , which has received much of its funding from right-leaning foundations, is sometimes pigeonholed as conservative, though it strives to remain neutral. Both groups not only provide legal support for people whose First Amendment rights have been violated but also engage, to varying degrees, in free-speech advocacy, seeking to expand the parameters of acceptable speech.

In the past two weeks, as protests against the war in Gaza have spread on college campuses, FIRE has criticized an antisemitism bill that was passed by the House of Representatives which would broaden the definition of antisemitism used by the Department of Education, decried the arrest of a photojournalist at a protest at the University of Texas at Austin, and condemned a violent pro-Israel counter-protest at U.C.L.A. But the group has also pointed out that universities mostly have a right to ban encampments and, in reference to events at Columbia, wrote , “Occupying a campus building, blocking students from attending classes, and vandalizing property is not protected by the First Amendment, full stop. It’s illiberal. It’s illegal. And it should be punished.” Taken together, these statements can feel unsatisfying and question-begging, if not outright contradictory. Does anyone seriously believe that the First Amendment protects the right to smash windows and occupy buildings? If not, why does FIRE regard it as important to point this out—and at a moment when student journalists are being forcefully removed from their campus by police officers? Does FIRE want to advocate for free speech, or play referee in a dispute about what constitutes a real First Amendment violation and what does not?

I asked Will Creeley, the legal director of FIRE , how he would answer that question. “To my mind,” he wrote, in a thoughtful and lengthy e-mail, “the answer—has to be—that we’re doing both.” He noted that the organization was currently fighting a host of legal battles that would expand the First Amendment in areas where protections were “uncertain, ill-defined, under challenge, or insufficient.” He added that the organization also makes “cultural, non-legal arguments that aim to cultivate a broader societal understanding of, and support for, free speech principles.” These include the idea that, if someone says something you don’t like, you should engage with them using more speech rather than trying to blacklist them or shout them down.

This dual burden of championing free speech and adjudicating First Amendment cases isn’t easy to navigate, in part because many people will, perhaps rightfully, detect political motivations behind the cultural, nonlegal arguments that Creeley mentioned. For the past decade or so, the most well-publicized incidents of shouting down speakers have taken place on college campuses and have involved the deplatforming of conservatives. Creeley, for his part, is aware that the public perception of his organization will be shaped by the cases it chooses to take on. “My hope for FIRE is that sooner or later, we have a case for everyone,” he wrote. “A case in which everyone sees us defending speech they like or vindicating the rights of a speaker they empathize with.”

The A.C.L.U. has done more advocacy for the ongoing student protests than its counterparts at FIRE. The Southern California branch of the organization sent an open letter to the chancellor of U.C.L.A. to denounce “efforts to suppress the peaceful right to free expression and dissent”; in response to a crackdown at Emory University, which included the violent arrest of an economics professor, the A.C.L.U. of Georgia issued a statement invoking the history of Atlanta as a “place where citizens could freely exercise their right to protest.” According to Ben Wizner, the director of the A.C.L.U.’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, most of the organization’s interventions in the recent campus controversies have addressed instances in which there was no clear violation of First Amendment rights. These are cases—such as the University of Southern California’s decision to cancel a commencement address by a Muslim student, on account of unspecified safety concerns—in which the A.C.L.U. saw a need to intervene for the cause of free expression.

Wizner, like Creeley, believes that any commitment to free speech must remain viewpoint-neutral. But he also said that defenders of free speech should have priorities. “The reason why I come to the First Amendment is a distrust of government power,” he told me. “The most obvious abuse of government power is disproportionate use of force on peaceful protesters. So you have to lead with that in moments like these.”

The A.C.L.U. does not have an unrestrained, anarchic vision of the First Amendment. Wizner mentioned a case that the A.C.L.U. had brought against Clearview, a company that was building a biometric tracking tool with facial-recognition technology. The A.C.L.U. argued that Clearview was violating the privacy rights of millions of people who had not consented to having their faceprints recorded. Clearview maintained that its activities should be protected by the First Amendment , because it was taking publicly available photographs and then expressing an opinion about who the person in the images might be. The A.C.L.U. decided that the privacy concerns were far more important than Clearview’s vision of free speech and rejected what they saw as an overly expansive interpretation of the First Amendment. “What you really need to have is a theory of what the First Amendment is for,” Wizner said, “not it being the biggest thing it can be.”

The A.C.L.U. and FIRE may have a complex set of responsibilities, but the matter is simpler for the rest of us who consider ourselves free-speech advocates. We are unencumbered by procedural questions, and can simply look to protect every nonviolent act of dissent from government interference. Civil disobedience, which includes both the occupation of a campus building to call for a ceasefire and the breaking of COVID lockdowns to hold an anti-vaccine rally in a public square, needn’t be discussed only through the lens of the First Amendment. We can also make a moral appeal, pointing to historical events, from the Boston Tea Party under British rule to the lunch-counter sit-ins throughout the South during the civil-rights movement. What I am proposing is not novel, simply a disentangling of some ideas that I believe have been caught up in years of fruitless debate: a free-speech radicalism that grounds itself in widely held beliefs about American liberty and tries to build a broad moral consensus around the universal right to dissent and the importance of civil disobedience—even the type that might get someone thrown in jail.

Dissent involves genuine confrontation, which is why, although social-media posts may spread quickly and even get people into the streets, they should be seen for what they are: a precursor to the real thing. Social media has undeniably become the public square, but those platforms have actually served to dull dissent and turn legitimate protest into an individualistic meme war in which people pick a side and add to a junk pile of online ephemera. Speech is an act that occupies physical spaces, and, in doing so, forces people to look up from their phones and respond rather than simply scroll past it. I do not believe there is much potential for political change in purely online dissent, and it appears that today’s young people, who protested en masse in 2020, are coming to a similar conclusion. Democracy requires a healthy form of dissent, and nothing is more innervating than standing with other people on a sidewalk or on a campus quad or in a public park. Real communities and political possibilities are shaped much more quickly in those spaces, and the free-speech advocacy that I am proposing should always remind its adherents of that. The encampments sprouting up on campuses around the country—and the counter-protests that sometimes accompany them—suggest that much of the public understands this. A modern free-speech movement should, perhaps counterintuitively, direct its focus away from the Internet and, instead, actively encourage dissenters to take their messages to the streets.

Sticking to radical free-speech principles requires discipline, which is something I have not always fully understood. In the past, I was much more skeptical about complaints regarding students shouting down conservative speakers at college functions—I believed that those students were exercising their own First Amendment rights. But the past few years have convinced me that the majority of Americans see a censorious glint in the eyes of the shouters, even when they agree with the shouters politically. I believe those same people can be persuaded to tolerate disruptive, nonviolent protests, but that their sympathies are being swayed by public deplatformings.

These principles also entail disengaging from the construction of safe spaces, the forbidding of certain words, and the prosecution of hate speech—practices that have offered little in the way of real protection but provided a good deal of reactionary fodder. This means that free-speech radicals need to reject the premise that a certain set of words should be set aside as “hate” and prosecuted as crimes. Words are not violence.

The arguments that progressives have made about safety in order to silence speakers with objectionable views have lately been turned back around on them. This might seem like justice to some, but it only produces an endless volley of silly accusations: everyone is a bigot; everyone is a hypocrite; nobody understands the First Amendment; you are always censoring me and vice versa. Young people will continue to engage in legal, peaceful protest and civil disobedience. And, as their protests escalate, even if they do so peacefully, they will meet condemnation and repression from both sides of the aisle. The twenty-tens saw more worldwide street protests than any decade in recorded history. The twenty-twenties have seen more of the same. Does anyone think that we currently have the moral or rhetorical language to address what is happening not only in this country but on campuses and in city squares around the world? The First Amendment is not enough. ♦

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35 Speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr. on Audio & Video

In recent years many of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speeches have been made available for free on audio & video from The King Institute at Stanford and The King Center in Atlanta. In this post we’ll feature 35 prominent speeches and sermons that Dr. King delivered in his lifetime that are available to listen to for free on audio & video.

You can browse all of the speeches and sermons of Dr. King that we feature on his author page, along with some audio books of his speeches and some interviews he did:

35 Free Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. on Audio & Video

We’ll start off by featuring some of Dr. King’s most famous speeches that we’ve featured in the past:

I Have a Dream Speech (August 28th, 1963)

Delivered on August 28th, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., King’s passionate call for justice and equality was the battle cry for the Civil Rights Movement in America. The 17-minute speech called for an end to racism in the United States during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which was a defining moment of the Civil Rights Movement.

I’ve Been to the Mountaintop Speech (April 3rd, 1968)

On April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. The night before he was assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his prophetic “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech. In this stirring speech Dr. King looks back on his life and is thankful for all the positive changes in civil rights that occurred in his lifetime, and he is grateful to have lived in the second half of the 20th century when masses of people all over the world were standing up for freedom and human rights.

Letter from Birmingham Jail: Dramatic Reading (April 16, 1963)

Watch a free dramatized version of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. Written 40 years ago on April 16, 1963, Dr. King wrote this while in jail in response to a statement by 8 white clergymen who argued that the battle against segregation should be fought in the courts, and not in the streets. In his letter, Dr. King argues for nonviolent direct action in response to unjust laws. The letter contains many great quotes including “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” and “Justice too long delayed is justice denied”. This special 1-hour video is a recording from the University of Texas at Austin filmed in an old Georgetown, Texas, jail sitting in for Birmingham in 1963, with actor Corey Jones playing Dr. King.

Acceptance Speech at Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony (December 10, 1964)

Listen to this brief yet powerful speech that Dr. King delivered upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. In the speech Dr. King talks of the ongoing “creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice” in the United States which by that time had led to the passage of the Civil Rights Bill. And King speaks of his hope that “mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed and join together in brotherhood.”

A Knock at Midnight Sermon (June 11, 1967)

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “A Knock at Midnight” sermon was delivered on June 11, 1967. It is one of his most famous sermons where he relates the parable Jesus told of a man who knocks at midnight for three loaves of bread. Dr. King extends the meaning of “midnight” to regard his time in 1967 as midnight in the social order, the psychological order, and the spiritual order. He encourages the church to offer “bread” to those in need both in a real sense and in a spiritual sense. It’s a powerful sermon delivered 50 years ago, but still very relevant today. It is available on streaming audio from the King Institute and on streaming video from YouTube.

The Drum Major Instinct Sermon (February 4, 1968)

Listen to this inspiring sermon from Martin Luther King, Jr. In this speech, delivered in the year he was assassinated, Dr. King looks back on his life and hopes he will be remembered as a “Drum Major for Justice”. King sees the importance in the “drum major instinct” that drives us to lead and be recognized, but points out through Christ’s teachings that the greatest leaders are those who serve others and put justice before their own gain.

Now we’ll give you a list all of the speeches including many new ones we’ve recently added to our LearnOutLoud.com Free Audio & Video Directory . The King Institute offers text and streaming audio of many of Dr. King’s most famous speeches. They are available through a Flash player on their site so if you’re on an iPhone or iPad the flash player won’t show up. But no need to worry we’ve also embedded video of all of these speeches from YouTube. Also The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change has uploaded many of Dr. King’s speeches to its YouTube channel in the past year and we’ve now added many of these to our site.

Here they all are in order of when they were delivered:

Rediscovering Lost Values (February 28, 1954)

Paul’s Letter to American Christians (November 11, 1956)

Birth of a New Nation (April 7, 1957)

Give Us the Ballot (May 17, 1957)

Loving Your Enemies (November 17, 1957)

Speech at the Great March on Detroit (June 23, 1963)

I Have a Dream (August 28th, 1963)

Eulogy for the Martyred Children (September 18, 1963)

The Quest for Peace and Justice: 1964 Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (December 11, 1964)

How Long, Not Long: Address at the Conclusion of the Selma to Montgomery March (March 25, 1965)

Creative Maladjustment (April 27, 1965)

The American Dream (July 4, 1965)

Free at Last (February 10, 1966)

Guidelines for a Constructive Church (June 5, 1966)

The Casualties of the War in Vietnam (February 25, 1967)

Beyond Vietnam (April 4, 1967)

The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life (April 9, 1967)

A Knock at Midnight (June 11, 1967)

Where Do We Go from Here? (August 16, 1967)

Why Jesus Called a Man a Fool (August 27, 1967)

The Three Evils of Society (August 31, 1967)

What is Your Life’s Blueprint? (October 26, 1967)

The Drum Major Instinct (February 4, 1968)

Unfulfilled Dreams (March 3, 1968)

The Other America (March 14, 1968)

Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (March 31, 1968)

I’ve Been to the Mountaintop (April 3, 1968)

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center is also featuring the 1967 CBC Massey Lectures that Dr. King delivered on their YouTube channel:

Conscience for Change: The 1967 CBC Massey Lectures

1. Impasse in Race Relations

2. Conscience and the Vietnam War

3. Youth and Social Action

4. Nonviolence and Social Change

5. A Christmas Sermon on Peace (December 24, 1967)

We do feature a number of other audio & video titles from Dr. King on his author page. Check them all out here:

Over 50 Martin Luther King, Jr. Audio & Video Titles

And for our comprehensive collection of audio & video resources about Dr. King check out:

MLK Out Loud Audio & Video Resources

Timothy Spall praised for ‘real’ speech after shock Bafta TV Awards 2024 win over Brian Cox

Timothy Spall has been praised by viewers of the 2024 Bafta TV Awards for his sincere and unrehearsed acceptance speech.

The actor, 67, won the Best Actor prize for his role in the four-part BBC true crime drama The Sixth Commandment .

Brian Cox had been the heavy favourite to take home the trophy for his role in Succession , while Steve Coogan was also tipped to be a contender for his portrayal of celebrity paedophile Jimmy Savile in The Reckoning .

Dominic West ( The Crown ), Kane Robinson ( Top Boy ) and Papa Essiedu ( The Lazarus Project ) were also nominated in the category.

However, it was Spall who emerged victorious, and the actor appeared to take the podium without having written a speech.

Spall described the acting profession as being “a soppy old thing, standing up pretending to be somebody and pissing around in costume”.

“The reality is, sometimes you get a chance to play people that have had a terrible thing happen to them, and all they wanted is love. This is a story about many things, about terrible crimes, but it’s also about love,” he told the audience at London’s Royal Festival Hall.

“We’re just storytellers, aren’t we, really? When it makes a difference and we can all share in the human condition ... even though acting is a silly stupid thing, it’s lovely.”

Gesturing at the trophy, he muttered: “I’ve always wanted one of these.”

Viewers shared praise for the actor on social media.

Really pleased Timothy Spall won best #BAFTAs actor for Sixth Commandment,” wrote journalist Harry Wallop. “It was such a fine performance in a really compelling drama. (And lovely acceptance speech – so rare for someone to admit they actually rather coveted a Bafta!)”

“As someone who grew up on [the Spall-starring 1980s comedy] Auf Wiedersehen Pet , great to see Timothy Spall get a BAFTA and give a brilliantly human nonscripted speech. Always be Barry to me,” another person wrote.

“Timothy Spall giving the the most ‘real’, genuine speech, from the most deserved winner,” someone else wrote.

Elsewhere at the ceremony, Joe Lycett showed up dressed as Queen Elizabeth after losing a bet , while a dance tribute to Peaky Blinders left some viewers scratching their heads .

You can find the full winners list here .

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Jill Biden tells Arizona college graduates to tune out people who tell them what they ‘can’t’ do

First lady Jill Biden told graduates of Mesa Community College to tune out the people who tell them what they can’t do, sharing a story of how her high school guidance counselor told her she wasn’t college material.

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FILE - First lady Jill Biden speaks at a women’s health summit in New York, May 1, 2024. Biden is telling graduates of an Arizona community college to tune out the people who tell them what they can’t do. Biden is delivering the commencement address Saturday, May 11, at Mesa Community College. The first lady is sharing how her high school guidance counselor told her she wasn’t college material. She says she didn’t listen and got her college degree. Then she got three more, including two master’s degrees and, at age 55, a doctorate. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

First lady Jill Biden applauds student before speaking at the Mesa Community College commencement Saturday, May 11, 2024, in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Jill Biden on Saturday told Arizona community college graduates to tune out the people who like to tell them what they can’t do.

The first lady shared with graduates of Mesa Community College how her high school guidance counselor told her she wasn’t college material and shouldn’t waste her time going. She didn’t listen and got her college degree.

Then she got three more, including two master’s degrees and, at age 55, a doctorate in educational leadership. She went to school at night while raising three children and working full-time.

The first lady has been a teacher for more than 30 years , and since 2009 has taught English and writing at Northern Virginia Community College.

She encouraged the graduates to “drown out” the voices that say “can’t” and to remember the challenges they overcame to get to wear a cap and gown on Saturday.

“You’ve met life’s challenges before. And you know that on the other side of ‘can’t’ lies the beauty and joy and surprise of life, the adventure that changes us for the better,” she said. “And you are ready for it.”

Biden said the graduates should remember that they are strong and resilient, and shouldn’t be afraid to face the unknown.

“Expect anything and everything. Take risks that scare you. Don’t hesitate when you see the chance for joy. Share your stories, too. Be kinder. Love harder. Dream bigger. Find your adventure and keep your courage and say ‘yes,’” she said.

To the Class of 2024, she said, “Let the world feel your thunder!” The college mascot is the thunderbird and ”feel the thunder” is the school slogan.

“And the next time someone tells you that you ‘can’t,’ you’re going to say, ‘Oh yeah? Watch me,’” Biden said.

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Jerry Seinfeld has steered clear of controversy for decades, saving his strongest opinions for the arguably mundane. But it appears his recent comments on what’s acceptable fodder for comedy, as well as his ongoing support of Israel, have prompted a new wave of frustration with the comedian. That aggravation boiled over today, in the form of a student walkout at Duke University’s graduation, just as the Seinfeld star took the stage to deliver the school’s commencement speech.

According to a video posted to social media , Seinfeld’s introduction by school president Vincent Price was “drowned out” by chants of “free free Palestine.” The rallying cries appeared to come from both the soon-to-be-graduates seated on Brooks Field as well as folks in the surrounding rows at Wallace Wade Stadium.

Another video shows be-gowned students standing, unfurling Palestinian flags, and leaving the stadium as Seinfeld prepared to speak. According to The Daily Beast , the livestream of the graduation ceremony cut away from the protest as it occurred.

Seinfeld, who also received an honorary doctorate from the school, didn’t allude to the protest in his speech, which focused on general life advice for the graduates. WRAL reports that the still-working standup announced three keys to life: Work hard, pay attention, and fall in love. (All activities, one should note, that seemed to eternally elude his namesake character .)

“Whatever you’re doing, I don’t care if it’s your job, your hobby, a relationship, getting a reservation at M Sushi, make an effort,” he reportedly said from the stage. “Just pure, stupid, no-real-idea-what-I’m-doing-here effort. Effort always yields a positive value, even if the outcome of the effort is absolute failure of the desired result. This is a rule of life. Just swing the bat and pray is not a bad approach to a lot of things.”

As Seinfeld spoke, the departed graduates chanted, “Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” from the parking lot, the Times reports .

Jerry Seinfeld’s latest bat swing is Unfrosted , a Netflix film that offers a satirical look at the creation of the Pop-Tart. The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee creator has been borderline ubiquitous as he works to promote the film, including an appearance on last week’s episode of Saturday Night Live in which he depicted “ A Man Who Did Too Much Press .”

Some might argue, however, that the issue hasn’t been the quantity, but the quality: In an interview with The New Yorker , the 70-year-old confoundingly claimed that “the extreme left and P.C. crap” has killed televised comedy, despite a multitude of comedic properties available for viewing every day of the week. The remarks were praised by many on the far right , while others said the remarks were out of touch , but perhaps unsurprising given some of the views expressed on his popular sitcom.

The comic, who is the parent of two Duke students and whom the New York Times describes as an “active booster” of the school, has been a vocal supporter of Israel since the October 7 attack on the country by Hamas; his wife also made headlines for actively funding an ultimately violent pro-Israel counterprotest at UCLA last week.

The Times reports that when Seinfeld was announced as this year’s speaker, students such as PhD program grad the Rev. Dr. Stefan Weathers Sr. wrote to Price to oppose Seinfeld’s planned appearance, characterizing the ongoing war in Gaza as “genocide.” Speaking with the NYT , Weathers warned that “There won’t be a business-as-usual commencement taking place,” as students were poised to “lift up our voices any way we can.”

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Is text to speech allowed on YouTube? It is but there are restrictions. Here’s a complete guide to using TTS on YouTube without breaking any rules.

Are you considering using text to speech (TTS) software in your YouTube videos? Perhaps you want to create voiceovers for your videos or make them more accessible to people with disabilities.

However, you may be hesitant to use TTS due to concerns about copyright infringement and the risk of losing monetization on your YouTube channel. This article will explore whether TTS is allowed on YouTube and how it may affect your ability to monetize your content.

Before discussing TTS on YouTube let us take a brief overview about what TTS software is and for what purposes it is used. TTS software is a form of speech synthesis that converts written wording into spoken content. The software is widely used for different purposes including social media, audiobooks , podcasts , and video content.

For instance, this speech technology can make free voice overs for Youtube movies without any need for human voiceover actors. For many people, TTS is used to narrate Reddit stories, news articles, memes, and different material. Voice recordings can be time consuming and exhausting than recording voice.

If you are a busy content creator, using text to speech in your videos rather than your voice is a superb way to boost your workflow. Rapidly, that is how you can attract a lot of new subscribers and earn faster money.

Additionally, some text to speech software offers an option of exporting automatic transcriptions that one can utilize as closed captions in their videos. Your videos will be more accessible for deaf individuals.

According to YouTube's Terms of Service, there are no restrictions on using text to speech in your videos. This means you can use TTS software to create voiceovers for your YouTube videos without worrying about violating YouTube's policies.

However, note that the content you create with TTS software must still comply with YouTube's community guidelines. For example, your content must not contain hate speech or violent or graphic content.

If you create audio using your own original content for commercial use, you will own the copyright. However, if you create audio using someone else's material, such as an article or a book, you will need to obtain rights for it. Copyright issues can arise if you use someone else's material without permission, regardless of the text to speech voices used.

Moreover, the right to use TTS voices will depend on the text to speech provider that you choose and the rights they have obtained for their voices. While some providers allow commercial use and content streaming, others may prohibit it.

YouTube’s TTS voice technology enables content producers to generate revenue off their videos. Since the TTS videos adhere to YouTube’s monetization policies and content guidelines, including being advertiser-friendly thus qualifying for AdSense, sponsorship, or any other form of income generation.

It is however important to mention that when one wants to commercialize services through TTS voices like audio books and others, one must seek permission from TTS software provider or any relevant copy rights authority thereof.

In general, it is okay to monetize content in the public domain through adding text to voice over , though you should consult first with your TTS provider’s terms of services or conditions prior to activating monetization.

When considering making money from your videos, investigating various speech apps’ terms and policies can be very useful in reducing headaches later.

Besides, the content creations must utilize top notch Text-To-Speech AI voice generators with voices that are as near to human, possibly. Some of the other essential considerations that need to be made while choosing a text to speech software entail price, various tongues as well as its usefulness for instance education.

How text-to-speech can maximize reach on YouTube

Using text-to-speech on YouTube can really help your videos reach more people . Imagine someone wanting to understand the words in your video without listening. With tools like "youtube to text free" converters, they can easily read what's being said.

Plus, if you're on a tight budget and need a voice for your video, text-to-speech offers a free voice over option. This means you don't have to spend money on hiring someone to speak for you.

And if you've got a video and want to turn it into written words, a "youtube video to text converter" can do that job. By using these tools, your YouTube content becomes more accessible to a wider audience, helping you connect with more viewers.

Speaking of advantages, one more lies in the power of text-to-speech technologies to overcome linguistic barriers. With YouTube being a world-wide platform, allowing for subtitles and text-to-speech functions in several other languages would bring more of a fan base to your channel.

How about engaging viewers from any part of the world irrespective of their mother tongue? You can also make it possible for people who are not good at the language of origin by incorporating text-to-speech in numerous languages, rendering your content accessible and comprehensible.

This inclusivity is not only increasing your audience share but also opening up for further growth and development opportunities. With a diversified group of viewers, you will be able to create an online channel that is both globally recognized for its relevance and attracts followers from all corners of the world.

This includes facilitating linguistic as well as cultural exchange by breaking the communication gap using text-to-speech technology. You can now enlist viewers from a diversity of backgrounds to engage with your content. Such viewers will have an opportunity to view or learn about other perspectives thereby expanding their horizon.

Finally, adopting text-to-speech system in your YouTube channel will go a long way towards improving users’ satisfaction, as well as bridging language gap. The audience will enjoy the experience even better because it is dynamic and interactive thereby enhancing viewer retention, attachment or rather connection with the audience.

Also, offering multilingual text-to-speech features will attract more audiences, thereby inviting opportunities to grow and expand globally. Now that you know the power of Text to speech to expand your reach, it’s time to learn how to use it with your YouTube Channel.

Steps to implement text-to-speech on your YouTube channel

Now that you're familiar with some of the top text-to-speech tools, let's explore the steps to implement this technology on your YouTube channel:

Selecting a Spoken Language Conversion Programme. For example, this means that you will have to assess such features as voice options, personalization options, and compliance with your own workflow. You do not have to rush when it comes to selecting any tool because there are a lot of tools out there waiting for you.

Having that in mind, select a text-to-speech tool and continue by turning your written material into sound. Each tool would have its own set of instructions which would make it fairly easy for each tool, but instructions may differ from one tool to another. Paste in your text, specify the tone and conditions; let’s do the rest together with a ready-to-use.

Now it is time to enhance your YouTube videos, audio files provided by you are ready. Take the audio recordings and insert it right there in your video so that the audience may hear instead of read. This does not only offer accessibility for visually handicapped persons; it also gives your publication another perspective.

In this manner, you can easily incorporate Text-to-Speech to your YouTube video blog so that your audience can have a one-of-a-kind and thrilling experience. So why wait? Discovering the World of Text-to-Speech: Revolutionizing Your YouTube Channel.

Speechify is an innovative text to speech software tool that allows content creators to make their YouTube videos more lively, accessible, and entertaining. As text to speech videos are allowed on YouTube, Speechify provides a simple and effective solution to create high-quality audio files for video content.

With its user-friendly interface, Speechify is available across major platforms and offers a wide range of natural-sounding voices in different languages. For example, you can choose a Spanish female voice or a British male voice for your videos, among many other options, and export that voice in many formats, including MP3 or WAV files.

It also pairs nicely with video editing software. Whether you're a YouTuber, podcaster, video editor, or simply looking to create original content, Speechify is the perfect tool to take your video content to the next level. Try Speechify for free today and see the difference for yourself.

No policy prohibits the use of TTS for YouTube monetization, so as long as the content complies with YouTube's community guidelines, it should be eligible for monetization.

The synthetic voices used in TTS software are typically created by speech synthesis companies and are protected by copyright. However, using TTS software to create derivative works, such as voiceovers, may fall under fair use exceptions.

No, text to speech is allowed on YouTube and is not considered a violation of the platform's terms of service. However, users should ensure that they’re using text to speech in accordance with the provider’s policies and with respect to the original creators.

TTS refers to converting text into synthetic speech, while ASR stands for Automatic Speech Recognition, which refers to transcribing spoken language into text. Text to speech (TTS) enables the device to “communicate” its textual information through sound. Meanwhile, speech recognition can serve as an input method, wither for dictation or device control.

Text to speech can make videos more accessible for people with disabilities, provide voiceovers for video content, and create high-quality audio files for podcasts or audiobooks. It can also save time and money compared to hiring human voice actors.

Some popular text to speech tools for YouTube include Speechify, Speechelo, and NaturalReader. These tools offer a variety of voices and languages, as well as features such as real-time synthesis, different voice styles, and natural-sounding voices.

Absolutely! You can use tools like Speechelo or Speechify to create voiceovers for your YouTube videos. These tools offer different voices, letting you pick the one that sounds best for your content. But even if tools like Speechelo can sound like a real human, they might not express feelings in real-time like a person would.

If your video has transitions that need to show strong emotions or special voice tones, using your own voice or hiring real voice actors might be a better choice. And if you're aiming to make money from your YouTube videos, avoid using templated content. Make sure your voiceovers are original and offer educational value. After all, YouTube and its viewers prefer videos that feel genuine and teach something useful.

Using their own voice in videos can help creators connect directly with their audience. It feels personal, like a real-time chat. But if a creator isn't confident in their voice or lacks the right equipment, they can turn to free text-to-speech tools.

These tools can still convey the educational value of the content. But it's crucial to choose a tool that sounds as close to a real human as possible. This keeps viewers interested and makes transitions in the video smoother. With so many tools available, creators should test a few and pick the best one for their videos.

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The Best YouTube Videos for Teaching Parts of Speech

Teaching grammar has never been so fun.

You no longer need to be afraid of teaching grammar. Teaching the parts of speech has never been more exciting or accessible, thanks to the many brave souls who are spicing up our lives with YouTube videos about nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, interjections, and prepositions. 

Get your students singing, dancing, and clapping (or at least actively listening) to our favorite YouTube parts of speech videos. 

Please, as always, preview any video you show your students. Especially on observation days. 

The Noun Song (What is a Noun?)

Catchy and bright, younger viewers will dig “The Noun Song” and will probably be humming the tune well after it’s over. It must be followed by The Verb Song , of course. Your students won’t have it any other way.

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That’s a Noun Sing-Along (HD Version) 

This quick video is a high-energy, animated song about—you guessed it—nouns. It includes the lyrics on-screen but also includes the lyrics in the comments so you can print and hand out to students.

Schoolhouse Rock Videos

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Conjunction Junction , Lolly’s Adverb Song , The Noun Song ,  Interjections! , Subjects and Predicates , and more were the staple of elementary school memories for many of us. It doesn’t matter that these videos are grainy and retro. Kids may laugh at first, but they’ll be begging to jam to these songs daily. 

8 Parts of Speech In English Grammar 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NFdFWg6cPv4

A little squirrel teaches viewers about nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions and interjections. This is a super-organized and informative video packed into less than ten minutes. Some pronunciations are off, but we can deal. 

Parts of Speech With Examples, by the Crown Academy of English

Andrew has made hundreds of videos for the Crown Academy of English, and the videos range from how to use English proverbs to making telephone calls to understanding how particular words are used. This 21-minute video makes my English-teacher heart sing and dance, it’s so full of information, examples, and a fancy British accent.

Marvin Terban’s Guide to Grammar: Parts of Speech Introduction

Marvin Terban is the “Professor of Grammar” who introduces viewers to the parts of speech in a pretty straightforward way. He incorporates “Ivan Capp” into his lesson, and Ivan will help students always remember the names of each of the eight parts of speech. 

8 Parts of Speech

This stand-alone video was created by Salk Middle School and Lauren Apfelbaum, and it’s super short and sweet. Less than three minutes long, there’s no talking in this video. It’s all on-screen reading, so students really have to pay close attention. 

8 Parts of Speech—Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb, Etc.

Ganesh goes into great detail in his “quick introduction” of the eight parts of speech. In under 20 minutes, he provides a pretty thorough overview, and in subsequent videos, viewers can learn a lot more about these building blocks of the English language. I like how Ganesh explains what parts of speech are in the beginning; kids will connect with his simple definition and analogy.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jGGl3BDAb3Q

The focus of English OMG is to help teach ESL and to inspire teachers of ESL. Teacher Kim is appealing and concise in her explanations without getting too in-depth. Her video library is vast, and each video is only about ten minutes long. I love that she has on-screen text and examples as she narrates each video.

8 Parts of Speech Video (Cup Version)

This young woman sings an “8 Parts of Speech” song to the tune of “When I’m Gone,” and she even sings it cup-style, a la Anna Kendricks in Pitch Perfect . Everyone will be totally wowed by this singer’s voice, and I’m betting you’ll have a handful of students who will try to do their own versions at their desks.

Grammar Girl Videos

Grammar Girl is the Grammar Queen of the Universe because she breaks grammar down for the people, every day, all day, on every social platform. She has hundreds of videos on her channel, but I love this simple video that teaches students how to diagram a sentence. Learning this important skill will truly awaken the grammarians in all of us. 

Which of these parts of speech videos are your faves? We’d love to know. Share in our WeAreTeachers Chat group on Facebook.

Then, be sure to check out our other favorite teaching videos on YouTube: 

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