15. A device for determining condescending speech comprising: a processor; instructions executed on the processor for receiving speech, processing the speech to identify one or more phonemes, processing the identified one or more phonemes wherein the processing identifies the duration, the maximum duration, and the locations of the one or more phonemes to identify at least one feature of the speech, comparing the at least one feature to features in a database, and generating an alert signal when the comparison exceeds a threshold; and an alert means for providing human perceptible indication in response to the alert signal.
17. The device in claim 15 , wherein the device is portable and the alert means is located in the device.