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Visible speech

Visible speech Meaning & Definition
Visible speech Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Visible speech?

[n] spectrogram of speech; speech displayed spectrographically
[n] a phonetic alphabet invented by Alexander Melville Bell in the 19th century

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See Also | phonetic alphabet | sound alphabet | spectrogram | spectrograph

Visible speech In Webster's Dictionary

\Vis"i*ble speech"\ (Phon.) A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them.

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