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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.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of compressed speech1
First recorded in 1965–70
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Example Sentences
During the latter part of his life there was a return of his early fault of quick, nervous, compressed speech.
From Project Gutenberg
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