Definitions

speech sound

NOUN

sound unit of speech

Synonyms

WEAK

affricate click consonant diphthong fricative implosive liquid phone phonetic entity phonetic unit plosive sibilant sonant spirant syllable vocable

Example Sentences

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Early last month, a new model of the tool was released that can generate videos with speech, sound effects and ambient sounds, marking another advancement in the company’s AI efforts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 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