| 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) |
| freedom of speech | a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution |
speech organ
vocal organ
organ of speech | any of the organs involved in speech production |
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 |
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 |
actor's line
speech words | words making up the dialogue of a play, the actor forgot his speech |
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 |
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 |
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 |
| speech community | people sharing a given language or dialect |
| speech therapist | a therapist who treats speech defects and disorders |
| speech spectrum | the average sound spectrum for the human voice |
speech disorder
speech defect
defect of speech | a disorder of oral speech |
| speech day | an annual day in the schools when speeches are made and prizes are distributed |
lipread
lip-read
speech-read | interpret by lipreading, of deaf people |
| speech-endowed | capable of speech, the speaking animal |
meandering(a)
rambling
wandering(a)
winding | of a path e.g., meandering streams, rambling forest paths, the river followed its wandering course, a winding country road |
digressive
discursive
excursive
rambling | (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects, amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things, a rambling discursive book, his excursive remarks, a rambling speech about this and that |
sprawling
straggling
rambling
straggly | spreading out in different directions, sprawling handwriting, straggling branches, straggly hair |