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visible speech
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A system of phonetic notation used as an aid for teaching speech to hearing-impaired people and consisting of diagrams of the organs of speech in the various positions required to articulate sounds.
visible speech
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(Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) a system of phonetic notation invented by Alexander Melville Bell (1819-1905) that utilized symbols based on the schematic representation of the articulations used for each speech sound
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Noun1.visible speech - a phonetic alphabet invented by Melville Bell in the 19th century
phonetic alphabet, sound alphabet - an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech
2.visible speech - spectrogram of speech; speech displayed spectrographically
spectrogram, spectrograph - a photographic record of a spectrum


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