Definitions for visible speech
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
vis′ible speech′(n.)
a system of phonetic symbols developed by Alexander Melville Bell in 1867 to represent the position of the speech organs in articulating sounds.
Category: Phonetics
the visual representation of characteristics of speech, as by sound spectrograms.
Category: Phonetics
Origin of visible speech:
1850–55
Princeton's WordNet
visible speech(noun)
a phonetic alphabet invented by Melville Bell in the 19th century
visible speech(noun)
spectrogram of speech; speech displayed spectrographically
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