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• iRobot also unveiled iRobot OS 7.0 , redefining cleaning automation with the additions of Dirt Detective and SmartScrub.
• "The new Roomba Combo j9+ and Roomba j9+ tackle competing product shortcomings head-on with superior engineering, iRobot OS intelligence and thoughtful digital experiences.
• With iRobot OS 7.0, iRobot is introducing new digital technologies Dirt Detective and SmartScrub for the Roomba Combo j9+ and Roomba j9+.
• Powered by iRobot OS and Imprint® Smart Mapping technology, the Roomba Combo j9+ and Roomba j9+ understand more voice commands than other robot vacuum brands.

• Mississippi was one of only six states that did not have a religious exemption for students to attend school.
• Those parents were put in an impossible position by being forced to violate their sincere religious beliefs in order to send their children to school.
• Plaintiffs are incredibly heartened that a federal court agreed that the State cannot afford a secular exemption without affording a religious exemption and that doing so violated the First Amendment.
• Counsel for the plaintiffs are Aaron Siri, Elizabeth A. Brehm, Walker Moller, and Catherine Cline of Siri & Glimstad LLP and Chris Wiest, of Chris Wiest, Attorney at Law, PLLC.

• There’s the Judy Grimes character played by Kristen Wiig on “Saturday Night Live,” or that guy from the 1980s who did commercials for Micro Machines and FedEx.
• Of course, there are also extremely slow talkers, like the sloth in “Zootopia” and the cartoon basset hound Droopy.

Different countries, different speeds

• SYL-LA-BLES.
• Researchers have also found that languages have different speech rates when speakers read aloud.
• French, Spanish and Japanese were shown to have high average speech rates – with close to eight syllables spoken per second.
• In English, for example, one study found that New Zealanders spoke the fastest, followed by British English speakers, then Americans and finally Australians.

Stereotypes don’t hold up

• For example, there’s the often-observed “drawl” of those living in the U.S. South.
• The term drawl denotes a slower, drawn-out speaking pace.
• One study found that participants in western North Carolina spoke more slowly than participants in Wisconsin.
• And some North Carolinians spoke about as fast as Ohioans – suggesting the stereotype of the slow-talking Southerner doesn’t always hold up.

Age, gender and other variables

• Sex and gender may also influence speech rates, although results have been conflicting here, too.
• Some research shows that men speak faster than women, while other studies find no significant difference in speech rate between genders.
• We speak slowly when we are children, speed up in adolescence and speak our fastest in our 40s.
• While geography, gender and age may affect speech rates in certain cases, context plays a role as well.
• There is no inherent connection between the rate of speech and levels of intelligence, truthfulness or kindness.

• It is projected the NLP market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.1%, and it is forecast to reach $92.7 billion by 2028.
• In this report, the NLP market has been segmented based on component, deployment, organization size, type, application, industry vertical and geography.
• It is estimated the NLP market for solution will grow at a CAGR of 26.4%, and it is forecast to reach $60 billion by 2028.
• In 2022, total revenue from the North America NLP market reached $8.6 billion, which is 36.1% of the global market.