Visible Speech
work by Alexander Melville Bell
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Visible Speech is a system of phonetic symbols developed by Alexander Melville Bell in the mid-19th century. It is based on symbols representing the position of the vocal organs during speech production. This system was designed to help the deaf learn to speak by providing a visual representation of sounds. Alexander Graham Bell, Alexander Melville Bell's son, was a teacher of the deaf and utilized Visible Speech in his work, which also influenced his later invention of the telephone.12
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