Speech Compression

Speech compression may mean different things:

  • Speech encoding refers to compression for transmission or storage, possibly to an unintelligible state, with decompression used prior to playback.
  • Time-compressed speech refers to voice compression for immediate playback, without any decompression (so that the final speech sounds faster to the listener).

Famous quotes containing the words speech and/or compression:

    “Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts.... It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that—being what it is—it falls so short of in fact and in deed.”
    —Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987)

    “Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and that to compress it further can only make it more obscure?”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)