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Visible Speech

Visible Speech is a system of phonetic symbols developed by British linguist Alexander Melville Bell in 1867 to represent the position of the speech organs in articulating sounds. Bell was known internationally as a teacher of speech and proper elocution and an author of books on the subject. The system is composed of symbols that show the position and…

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Alexander Melville BellElocutionPhonetic notationDeafConsonants
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Modern implementationsPhonologySpeech therapyComputer speech recognition
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Creator
Alexander Melville Bell
Direction
Left-to-right
Period
1867 to the present
Script type
Alphabet
Unicode range
U+E780 to U+E7FF in the ConScript Unicode Registry

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Visible Speech

Nodes27
Edges26
Triples75
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.074074
Components1

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related to References · 31
Visible Speech → Alexander Melville, Bell, Co, DC, Detroit, Dover Publications, Education, From Isolation To Integration, Gallaudet University Press, ISBN, ISBN HV, ISBN TK, K83, Kopp, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, London, Margret, Marshall
related to External links · 18
Visible Speech → Alex, Alexander Graham Bell Family, American Memory, Bell, Communicating Articulation, Deaf Mutes, Description, Google, Henry Sweet, IPA, Means, Omniglot, Organic Speech, Overview, Papers, Phonetics, Speech, Sweet's
related to The early years · 10
Visible Speech → Alexander Graham Bell, Alexander Melville Bell, In, Melville Bell, Melville Bell's, The, The Science, These, This, Universal Alphabetics
related to A fresh take on pronunciation for the deaf · 9
Visible Speech → Alexander Graham Bell, Bell's, Graham Bell's, Instead, Modern, The, This, Volta Laboratory, Washington
Creator · 1
Visible Speech → Alexander Melville Bell
Direction · 1
Visible Speech → Left-to-right
ISO 15924 · 1
Visible Speech → .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}Visp (280), ​Visible Speech
Period · 1
Visible Speech → 1867 to the present
Script type · 1
Visible Speech → Alphabet
Unicode range · 1
Visible Speech → U+E780 to U+E7FF in the ConScript Unicode Registry

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speech bell visible system melville alexander deaf graham symbols phonetic used international bell's use ipa help pronunciation could universal sounds

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Visible SpeechCreatorAlexander Melville Bell1.00infobox
Visible SpeechDirectionLeft-to-right1.00infobox
Visible SpeechISO 15924.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}Visp (280), ​Visible Speech1.00infobox
Visible SpeechPeriod1867 to the present1.00infobox
Visible SpeechScript typeAlphabet1.00infobox
Visible SpeechUnicode rangeU+E780 to U+E7FF in the ConScript Unicode Registry1.00infobox
Visible Speechis asystem of phonetic symbols developed by British linguist Alexander Melville Bell in 1867 to represent the position of the speech organs in articulating sounds0.90text
Visible Speechrelated to A fresh take on pronunciation for the deafAlexander Graham Bell0.60section
Visible Speechrelated to A fresh take on pronunciation for the deafInstead0.60section
Visible Speechrelated to A fresh take on pronunciation for the deafGraham Bell's0.60section
Visible Speechrelated to A fresh take on pronunciation for the deafVolta Laboratory0.60section
Visible Speechrelated to A fresh take on pronunciation for the deafWashington0.60section

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