visible speech

/ˌvɪzəbəl spitʃ/
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Definitions of visible speech
  1. noun
    spectrogram of speech; speech displayed spectrographically
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    type of:
    spectrogram, spectrograph
    a photographic record of a spectrum
  2. noun
    a phonetic alphabet invented by Melville Bell in the 19th century
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    type of:
    phonetic alphabet, sound alphabet
    an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech
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