Noun: visible speech vi-zu-bul speech
- A phonetic alphabet invented by Melville Bell in the 19th century
"Linguists studied visible speech as an early attempt to represent spoken sounds visually"
- Spectrogram of speech; speech displayed spectrographically
"The linguist analysed the visible speech patterns to study pronunciation"
Derived forms: visible speeches
Type of: phonetic alphabet, sound alphabet, spectrogram, spectrograph
Encyclopedia: Visible speech