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compressed speech
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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.
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Origin of compressed speech
First recorded in 1965–70
Words nearby compressed speech
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