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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

vis′ible speech′, [Phonet.]

Phoneticsthe representation in graphic or pictorial form of characteristics of speech, as by means of sound spectrograms.
Phoneticsthe system of handwritten phonetic symbols invented by Melville Bell in 1867 to provide a visually comprehensible rendition of speech sounds.

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