The speaker again uttered something; Baldwin did not answer it but said, "We won't be down here long."
A siren sounded and a speaker above the Salvation Army booth uttered: "Captain Walker, ready with gate four."
The speaker again uttered something; Baldwin did .
This is especially likely when the speaker has uttered a random number and realizes that it was not recognized as such, but even 'non-random' numbers are occasionally used in this fashion.
Under the majority's approach, the resulting 'quotation' may differ significantly in wording and content from what the speaker actually uttered, so long as the writer can argue with a straight face that it is a rational interpretation of what the speaker said.
YOU could almost hear a collective gasp emanating from the portraits of venerable lawyers lining the walls of the City Bar Association meeting hall the other night when a speaker first uttered the term.
When the night was over, speakers had uttered some version of "optimism" 6 times, "hope" 13 times, "values" 22 times and "strength" 58 times.
The speaker uttered sounds.
In that case-" A speaker on Baldwin's desk uttered: "cenie B hdg rylp.
A computer analysis of the recordings showed that individual speakers uttered the same words at the same absolute pitches to within fractions of a semitone - the musical step from one key on a piano to the next.