compressed speech
noun
speech reproduced on tape at a faster rate than originally spoken, but without loss of intelligibility, by being filtered through a mechanism that deletes very small segments of the original signal at random intervals.
Origin of compressed speech
1First recorded in 1965–70
Words Nearby compressed speech
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How to use compressed speech in a sentence
During the latter part of his life there was a return of his early fault of quick, nervous, compressed speech.
Robert Toombs | Pleasant A. Stovall
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