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:
“Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)