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visible speech
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun visible speech has 2 senses
- visible speech(n = noun.communication) Array - a phonetic alphabet invented by Melville Bell in the 19th century; Array is a kind of phonetic alphabet, sound alphabet
- visible speech(n = noun.artifact) Array - spectrogram of speech; speech displayed spectrographically; Array is a kind of spectrogram, spectrograph
CIDE DICTIONARY
visible speech,
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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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