speech sound
Example Sentences
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It gives you a hearing number, the softest speech sound you can hear in each ear.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
Finally, children were asked to match words based on whether they began or ended with the same speech sound, a task essential not only to speech development but also to reading acquisition.
From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2024
Imagine if the film is a musical — what would Mealworm's speech sound like as a musical number?
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2023
The researchers used software to rate the magnitude of the cats’ reactions to a speech sound.
From Scientific American • Dec. 29, 2022
They were able to talk to Billy by means of a computer and a sort of electric organ which made every Earthling speech sound.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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