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compressed speech

American  

noun

  1. 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.


Etymology

Origin of compressed speech

First recorded in 1965–70

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In the 1970s and 1980s, the Defense Department began investigating compressed speech as a way to boost learning.

From Washington Post Jun. 22, 2016

During the latter part of his life there was a return of his early fault of quick, nervous, compressed speech.

From Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Stovall, Pleasant A.

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