Time-compressed Speech - Other Terms

Other Terms

Unfortunately, there are a variety of confusing terms used for this and related technologies:

• Time-compressed/accelerated speech (often used in psychological literature)

• Compressed speech

• Time-scale modified speech (used in signal processing literature)

• time-scale modification (TSM)

• Sped-up speech

• Rate-converted speech

• Time-altered speech

• Voice compression/speech compression/voice encoding/speech encoding/audio compression (data) (these often refers to compression for transmission or storage, possibly to an unintelligible state, with decompression used during playback)