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:

    “If we would enjoy the most intimate society with that in each of us which is without, or above, being spoken to, we must not only be silent, but commonly so far apart bodily that we cannot possibly hear each other’s voice in any case. Referred to this standard, speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)