| voice | a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated, the voice of the law, the Times is not the voice of New York, conservatism has many voices |
| speech therapy | any therapy intended to correct a disorder of speech |
| visible speech | spectrogram of speech, speech displayed spectrographically |
| speech intelligibility | the intelligibility of speech (usually measured in the presence of noise or distortion) |
| voice | the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech, A shrill voice sounded behind us |
head register
head voice
head tone | the higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing, the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head |
chest register
chest voice
chest tone | the lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing |
| freedom of speech | a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution |
| voice | the ability to speak, he lost his voice |
speech organ
vocal organ
organ of speech | any of the organs involved in speech production |
larynx
voice box | a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea, contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech |
language
speech | the mental faculty or power of vocal communication, language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals |
| speech perception | the auditory perception (and comprehension) of speech |
feature of speech
feature | (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind |
voice mail
voicemail | a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls, telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed |
part of speech
form class
word class | one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context |
| visible speech | a phonetic alphabet invented by Melville Bell in the th century |
part-of-speech tagger
pos tagger | a tagging program whose labels indicate a word's part of speech |
| lecture speech talking to | a lengthy rebuke, a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline, the teacher gave him a talking to |
| singing voice | the musical quality of the voice while singing |
bass
bass voice
basso | the lowest adult male singing voice |
baritone
baritone voice | the second lowest adult male singing voice |
tenor
tenor voice | the adult male singing voice above baritone |
actor's line
speech words | words making up the dialogue of a play, the actor forgot his speech |
part
voice | the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music, he tried to sing the tenor part |
| voice part | a part written for a singer |
manner of speaking
speech delivery | your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally, his manner of speaking was quite abrupt, her speech was barren of southernisms, I detected a slight accent in his speech |
| articulation voice | expressing in coherent verbal form, the articulation of my feelings, I gave voice to my feelings |
| tone tone of voice | the quality of a person's voice, he began in a conversational tone, he spoke in a nervous tone of voice |
rhythm
speech rhythm | the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements, the rhythm of Frost's poetry |
trope
figure of speech
figure image | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
speech
speech communication
spoken communication
spoken language
language voice communication
oral communication | (language) communication by word of mouth, his speech was garbled, he uttered harsh language, he recorded the spoken language of the streets |
| speech | the exchange of spoken words, they were perfectly comfortable together without speech |
voice
vocalization
vocalisation
vocalism
phonation
vox | the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract, a singer takes good care of his voice, the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations |
phone
speech sound
sound | (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language |
stop consonant
stop
occlusive
plosive consonant
plosive speech sound
plosive | a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it, his stop consonants are too aspirated |
| speaking speech production | the utterance of intelligible speech |
| speech | something spoken, he could hear them uttering merry speeches |
| accent speech pattern | distinctive manner of oral expression, he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent, she had a very clear speech pattern |
phatic speech
phatic communication | conversational speech used to communicate sociability more than information |
| second-hand speech | overheard conversation (especially overheard cellphone conversation) |
| non-standard speech | speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community |
| speech act | the use of language to perform some act |
address
speech | the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience, he listened to an address on minor Roman poets |
keynote speech
keynote address | a speech setting forth the keynote |
nominating speech
nominating address
nomination | an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election, the nomination was brief and to the point |
| stump speech | political oratory |
| voice | something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression, the wee small voice of conscience, the voice of experience, he said his voices told him to do it |
| voice over | the voice on an unseen commentator in a film of television program |
| voice | a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance, the noisy voice of the waterfall, the incessant voices of the artillery |