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Meaning of VISIBLE SPEECH

Pronunciation:  'vizubul speech

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  spectrogram of speech; speech displayed spectrographically
  2. [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

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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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