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:

    “The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

    “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)