Visible Speech
Discurso Visible
- Date
- 1867 · confidence high
- Place
- Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Alexander Melville Bell
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A system of phonetic symbols devised by Alexander Melville Bell to visually represent the position of the speech organs in articulating sounds, used in teaching elocution and a forerunner of modern phonetics.
What it led to
- Development of the International Phonetic Alphabet
- Influence on oral methods of teaching the deaf
- Later work by his son Alexander Graham Bell on phonetics applied to speech