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compressed speech

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.


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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.

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