| 释义 | visible speech
 visible speechn. 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 speechn  (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 soundvis′ible speech′
 n.    1.  a system of phonetic symbols developed by Alexander Melville Bell in 1867 to represent the position of the speech organs in articulating sounds.    2.  the visual representation of characteristics of speech, as by sound spectrograms.  [1850–55] Thesaurus
 EncyclopediaSeespeechLegalSeeSpeech| Noun | 1. | visible speech - a phonetic alphabet invented by Melville Bell in the 19th centuryphonetic alphabet, sound alphabet - an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech |  |  | 2. | visible speech - spectrogram of speech; speech displayed spectrographicallyspectrogram, spectrograph - a photographic record of a spectrum | 
 visible speechRelated to visible speech: Alexander Melville Bell
 Words related to visible speechnoun a phonetic alphabet invented by Melville Bell in the 19th centuryRelated Wordsphonetic alphabetsound alphabet
 noun spectrogram of speechRelated Words |